betray
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The film may initially present Man-su as a sympathetic family man trying to make ends meet, but Lee quickly subverts those sentiments once Man-su’s methodical process betrays no sense of remorse.
From Los Angeles Times
“Sister Rochelle is all about community, and you don’t betray your community.”
From Los Angeles Times
Discomfort with one’s body was increasingly reframed by clinicians and activists as a psychological flaw, and the desire for physical change treated with suspicion, as if it betrayed a lack of self-acceptance.
He was a nature-loving conservationist and an unrepentant big-game hunter, a Victorian moralist who betrayed his own party and skirted the law when it suited his purposes.
Stocks have betrayed little concern, with the prospect of more rate cuts buoying sectors that could benefit most, including banks and industrial companies.
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