Word: betrays
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...whose pretensions are often very cruelly snubbed. In this case they should be snubbed. Advance is moving too fast over the largely unexplored and extremely boggy ground of liberal Republicanism, and if its editors are at all bothered by doubt about the nature and quality of the soil, they betray none of their misgivings...
...speaks suavely in the board room, whines from the stage, clatters from the Wall Street ticker, jokes with fake youthfulness on the golf course and whispers in privacy each day before the shaving mirror and the dressing table. Not merely the black statistics of murder, suicide, alcoholism and divorce betray anxiety (or that special form of anxiety which is guilt), but almost any innocent, everyday act: the limp or overhearty handshake, the second pack of cigarettes or the third martini, the forgotten appointment, the stammer in midsentence, the wasted hour before the TV set, the spanked child...
...search for panaceas or slogans. It calls on intellectuals and policy-makers alike to gear their thinking to the least optimistic assumptions, and attempt the best modus operandi from there. It is for just this reason that some of the contradictions and evasions are so disturbing. Those passages which betray the same irrationality that pervades most American thinking about foreign policy in the nuclear age are likely to undermine the rest of the work...
...style to strut. Anna Moffo, as Liù, makes the part far more than the usual sweet rag doll: singing with impeccable beauty of tone but also with surprising force, she gives the character backbone, thus rendering plausible the scene in which she chooses to die rather than to betray Calaf...
...printing plant that the East Germans have promised to build for him near Accra. In undisguised anguish, the Times and News printed appeals to their declining readership. "Don't ever forget the debt you owe to this gallant paper," implored the News. "To forget it is to betray yourself and Africa. Read the valiant Evening News and keep yourself in perfect tune with the spirit of militant fighting Africa." But there was no evidence that anyone was listening-least of all the Osagyefo...