Word: betrayal
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...Alex North and, more important, searching close-up shots of the principals, Showing the great properties of the movie medium, the close-ups endow the scene in which Miss Waters sings a comforting hymn with a beauty which only the camera could capture. Yet even the close-ups sometimes betray the script, making, lines aimed at the balcony of a play house seem unnecessary and over-wrought...
...financial strength before Congress could pass effective programs. Again in 1950, the Korean War started prices soaring, and inflation cheated the taxpayer before the legislators could act. With these examples, if Congress fails to pass a program that can check a war inflation before it starts, it will betray extreme financial myopia. Stand-by controls are safe and they are necessary...
...gentlemen, or the most outstanding scholar. The great newspaperman is not the one who divulges before Court the identify of his inform auis but the one who rather goes to jail in defense of the superior principles of his profession. The good priest is not the one who betrays the confidence entrusted to him in confession as his "duty to collaborate with government" would prescribe, but the one who following the superior code of his Church would rather die. Those whom one has not betrayed should not betray one either. This is the issue confronting not the law but ever...
Playwright Rattigan is not such a hack as to brush aside the serious point of his story; rather, he responds just enough to betray it. Far more theater man than playwright, he has a way, whether with a scene's falling apart or a character's fate, of being saved by the bell - by someone on the phone or someone at the door. He seems less to chronicle suffering than to exploit it. But he respects the rules, he scrupulously obeys the sign reading No Unhappiness Permitted After 10:45 p.m., even if it entails the most false...
...voice of a whole people. It is all that the world sees and hears and understands about a single nation. It expresses the character and the faith and the will of that nation. In this, a nation is like any individual of our personal acquaintance: the simplest gesture can betray hesitation or weakness, the merest inflection of voice can reveal doubt or fear...