forsook

I was part of that generation of Latinos who forsook the Republican Party.

As a young college graduate, Mr. Whitworth forsook a promising career as a jazz trumpeter to do a different kind of improvisation as a journalist.

“The men in green all forsook England a hundred years ago,” said I, speaking as seriously as he had done.

Later, he forsook arts cinema to become a highly bankable commercial actor, as at home in comedy as in drama.

But I’ll never stop urging his supporters to forsake him, as he forsook his post-election duties to them and all Americans.