| Nevertheless the overdetermining nature of violence means each event is quickly narrativized into the logic of patriots, martyrs or betrayals. |
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| Amid the discomforts of his passage the author reflects on or trawls his past, his sorrows and betrayals, his experience as a wartime evacuee. |
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| When her mother, who is clearly only concerned with her own prosperity, deserts her, it is only the first of a series of betrayals and letdowns. |
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| A system that has brought unimagined prosperity cannot survive if such betrayals become commonplace. |
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| He asks Marco to make the sale and thus begins a whirlwind of scams, mishaps, betrayals and reversals. |
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| While it is almost inevitable that a biographer will either be a hagiographer or a betrayer, his betrayals are, actually, of a special order. |
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| Added to this are all the expected red herrings, betrayals, and double-crosses. |
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| The Franco-German axis has taken the weight of many disputes, misunderstandings, betrayals and jolting halts. |
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| It was more of a straightforward kung fu movie, featuring a love triangle, a couple of betrayals, and a revenge plot. |
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| The union's betrayals have not merely been the product of the cowardice of a few self-seeking union leaders. |
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| Raised on a diet of historical bungles, betrayals and defeats, we've hardly an ounce of self-belief left. |
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| As he tries to find out what happened, he is sucked into a world of gunmen and no-go garrisons, brutalities and betrayals. |
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| If it dies it is because of our own errors, betrayals and aberrations. |
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| But the hallmark of these betrayals is that they are impulsive and unjustified. |
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| The game of betrayals and rivalries among the sisters is the counterpoint to the elderly king's sadness, solitude and agedness. |
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| At times, it is less holy, filled with betrayals, cowardliness and the setbacks or failures of our personal sins and the sins of those around us. |
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| Zen Predator often reads like a soap opera, complete with lurid emails, shady financial dealings, and betrayals. |
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| Betrayal, when stemming from childhood, results in an expectation that betrayals will occur again and again, so a person is constantly anticipating them. |
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| But misframing the past as a narrative of deceptions, betrayals and humiliations is a profoundly dangerous move. |
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| In a world filled with lies, betrayals and shadowy insinuations, is anyone telling the truth? |
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| It is those flip-flops and betrayals that we object to and the way that people are treated. |
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| Why do they not understand that these betrayals and broken promises, particularly the betrayal on the Atlantic accord, are simply not acceptable. |
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| A vivid depiction of the heroism of the workers and the betrayals of their leaders, Morrow's book is grounded in a Marxist analysis and program. |
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| The fact that there are so many betrayals is very worrying and the fact that nobody can argue that Canadians have not been betrayed. |
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| Popular-front betrayals were committed in France and Spain in the 1930s, in Chile in the 1970s and elsewhere. |
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| So far the Mission had become an island of peace in the midst of fear, betrayals, revenge on so-called sell-outs, cruelties and great confusions. |
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| From the beginning of this church, I too have also experienced many betrayals. |
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| I always obeyed God and treated all others only with goodness, but without a cause I experienced betrayals and sufferings. |
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| The isolation of the oppressed and the hopelessness in this society which exists today is the bitter fruit of the left's betrayals. |
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| As India's most powerful political family roils with rivalries and betrayals, Nehru's great-grandson campaigns from a jail cell. |
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| Gradually, as a summer of physical hardship and anxiety and Stalinist betrayals gives way to the wholesale fight for survival, her language is pared down, as is her focus. |
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| One of our key tasks is to struggle to explain and clarify the Marxist program, freeing it from the filth of Stalinist betrayals and the lies of capitalist ideologues. |
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| Unseemly self-exposures, unpalatable betrayals, unavoidable mendacity, a soupçon of meretriciousness: memoir, for much of its modern history, has been the black sheep of the literary family. |
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| That was a huge one, but members will have to forgive me, particularly this week, if I suggest the mother of all betrayals was the Atlantic accord. |
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| Key international cadre were won to the Left Opposition, including James P. Cannon, a central leader of the American CP, and Chen Duxiu, the founding leader of the CCP who had been made the scapegoat for Stalin's betrayals. |
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| A series of tragedies and betrayals blindsides Selma, and blindness becomes the least of her problems. |
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| A most important criterion embraces character: integrity, collegiality, industriousness and other traits may be indispensable, for members must work together and the committee not collapse amidst bickering and betrayals. |
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| Rebull remained in the POUM through all of its betrayals. |
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| It is a provenly difficult task to persuade voters at this stage of the electoral cycle not to reject Labour governments for their shortcomings and, in some eyes, their betrayals. |
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| The government has been dishonouring agreements with the south since the 1960s, and most southerners believe that self-determination is their best guarantee against future betrayals. |
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| With all the betrayals and gassy ambitions swirling around here, we badly need dialogue to ignite the film, instead of which even the most aggressive spirits keep firing the dampest of lines. |
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| In Barrett's ballads, betrayals by men confirm the emptiness of patriarchally defined ideals of womanhood. |
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| Hollywood has had no shortage of poor kids driven mad by envy of their wealthier pals, causeless rebels, anxious adolescents wrestling with sexuality — no shortage, indeed, of youthful games that bleed into adult betrayals. |
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| Now you realize how much you have made Jesus suffer, and you are filled with sorrow. How easy it is to ask his pardon and weep for your past betrayals! |
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| Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately hinging on the battle of truth vs. trust. |
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| Yet seconds later he continued, for when if not now to relay to her the stealth of years, the inexorable betrayals of the body, the perfidiousness of the eventualities? |
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| In the pages of L'Equipe, the leading sports journal in France, Zidane's former team-mates have been laying into each other over the Blanc affair, while also complaining of old betrayals and ancient rivalries. |
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| I think there is a pretty broad consensus that it is a budget born out of political cynicism and that it is simply an array of broken promises and spectacular betrayals. |
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| Accoutering the drama are kids, betrayals, and breakdowns amid a cast of literati both British and American. |
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| While past struggles were defeated by the betrayals of the workers' leadership, the material devastation of Bolivia-in particular the shutting down of the tin mines and much of industry-raises another issue. |
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| After spinning out an inventive series of betrayals, the film can't think of a clever solution and so mindlessly bulldozes through plot-holes to the explosive finale. |
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