How To Use Betrayal In A Sentence

The feeling of betrayal goes far deeper. Times, Sunday Times
Theirs is a consummately selfish act, no less than a low-life betrayal of civilization.
If cryonic preservation does indeed signal betrayal, it does so while asking much from those who would be betrayed. Times, Sunday Times
Despite his eventual betrayal of me-for which I have forgiven him-Hu was a superb implementer and an outstanding public servant.
Lovers quarrel when one party in the relationship has committed an act of betrayal. Christianity Today

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It's a betrayal of promises on a grand scale, and all the worse for being a betrayal of the poorest people in the world.
His investigation reveals a twisted labyrinth of deception and betrayal, with remorseless vixen Kitty Collins at the center.
There's betrayal, murder, raucous feasts, flamenco dancing and the occasional talking tree.
While it is almost inevitable that a biographer will either be a hagiographer or a betrayer, his betrayals are, actually, of a special order.
Just at the moment Spartacus expects to embark his army and followers aboard the Silesian ships, news of betrayal and of Roman armies converging on his position causes Spartacus to radically revise his plans.
Is it possible that Dmytryk "postdated" the meetings to make more credible his tale of commitment and betrayal by the Communist Party that he had already repudiated? Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood
The betrayal of outlaws by informers was a common historical fact.
month by month, the betrayal gnawed at his heart
When does safeguarding one's own position become a betrayal of the larger principles one lives for?
They also praised Ryan's "terrific" performance and concluded that the film is "a nuttily engaging tale of betrayal and, perhaps, redemption.
The Coens unashamedly celebrate and aggrandize American culture and sense of place, using it to enhance stories that convey and explore love, betrayal and ambition.
Told in alternating narratives (with a helpful opening guide to how many different names both women are known by), Bunny ("Faith") Crumpacker tells the story of an unhappy marriage followed by betrayal, a pregnancy of uncertain paternity and the near-numb yet single-minded decision to give up her baby. Nancy Doyle Palmer: Jessica Lost: Adoption and Identity in Modern Times
The generous outreach to Sunnis is widely viewed as a profound betrayal by Bahrain's rulers and feeds Shiite perceptions of second-class status and being under siege from what they call a "mercenary" security force. The Seattle Times
Amid the discomforts of his passage the author reflects on or trawls his past, his sorrows and betrayals, his experience as a wartime evacuee.
Love, sex, duplicity, betrayal - the abiding themes of literature are all there, along with the fascinating twist that it's all going on under the watchful eye of the public.
Betrayal is common for men with no conscience. Toba Beta
For some, there was a lingering feeling of betrayal. Times, Sunday Times
Worst of all, the men of the community gossip that she sleeps with white men, an allegation that stimulates discussion of issues of miscegenation, integration, and racial betrayal.
She hated Nora for the double betrayal and swore that she would never forgive her.
Again, I'm prepared to be wrong about this, but I don't see cashiering McChrystal happening, given that the depiction of the "rift" here amounts to some personal slights, some unguarded drunk-talk among aides, and McChrystal's sincere belief that Karl Eikenberry's criticisms felt like a "betrayal" from a friend. Stanley McChrystal Under Fire: What Does It Mean For Counterinsurgency Strategy?
Against such a background of general connivance and betrayal, the few - very few - acts of genuine resistance stand out.
But what begins as manipulative flirtation soon turns into a dangerous and erotic game of passion, power and betrayal.
And the fear in the heart with obtained after the betrayal.
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.
I saw it as a betrayal of trust. The Sun
Now, faced with a deficit of historic proportions, to whitter on about low taxes is a betrayal of the mose fundamental of conservative values - our commitment to the national interest. Conservatives at Manchester: heresy #2
For his admirers that clear vision was reflected in his unbending refusal to consider ‘a betrayal of the great principle for which we have been fighting for the last 30 or 40 years.’
The charges include bribery, corruption, violation of the Constitution and betrayal of public trust.
Radical socialists have seen this as "betrayal" but they have always lacked a credible political alternative to it. After Thatcher
There is no question of betrayal, of treachery. Times, Sunday Times
Complications kick in, and previously contained feelings of jealousy, betrayal, insecurity and possessiveness threaten to overwhelm what had seemed a rather civilised arrangement.
It was stunning in its betrayal of good, reliable allies who had unfalteringly stood by us. Post-American Presidency
But some investors do not need or want advice, and this dirty backroom deal is a betrayal. Times, Sunday Times
The young, intelligent people feel a great sense of betrayal, even those who at first believed in all this.
This is a betrayal of what used to be called internationalism.
His sons perceived the whole scenario as a great betrayal. Positive Parent Power
But he felt a renewed sense of betrayal when Bonington climbed the north face of the Eiger without him.
Thousands of people marched through Los Angeles on Saturday, fueled in part by what they called a betrayal by Bush. Archive 2007-04-08
She experienced sickness, loss, and betrayal all at once. Christianity Today
the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal
Irako's sense of entitlement and bondless ambition is the hubris which eventually leads to the discovery of his betrayal by the Kogan sensei. Undefined
The business community regarded the measures as a betrayal of election promises.
It will be a gutless betrayal of staff too. The Sun
He is being tried for bribery, graft and corruption, betrayal of public trust and culpable violation of the Constitution.
Evelyn Gordon explains that shver tzu zein a yid is the only possible explanation for the betrayal that European Jews handed Israel when they signed on to J Call's call for blaming Israel for the conflict in this part of the world. Israel Matzav
If it dies it is because of our own errors, betrayals and aberrations.
First, it is a profound betrayal of the cardinal principle of intellectual endeavour, which is freedom of speech and debate.
In a single act of cowardice and betrayal, if not treason, the US congress has 'scuttled' the Articles of Impeachment drawn up and carefully researched by Dennis Kucinich. Liberty Betrayed
But what really works with this story is that it grabs you with the sense of deadliness and betrayal being associated with the most familiar settings and people that are supposed to be safe. MIND MELD: Memorable Short Stories to Add to Your Reading List (Part 2 of 2)
Technically a country can be treasonous because the primary definition of "treason" is "the betrayal of a trust. Is That Legal?: America -- a Treasonist Country
With all this, in order to cover up the failures of your government - a visible symbol of betrayal of the much-propagated cause of the common masses of Jharkhand - you the people in power are trying to attack us, sending troops to create white terror by regular combings and savage brutalities. CPI(Maoist) - An Open Letter To Sudhir Mahato, Dy. CM of Jharkhand
Any deviation from the party's faith is seen as betrayal.
The cocaine trade being so lucrative, it encouraged disloyalty and betrayal.
Vacuity posing as merriment, cynicism posing as savviness, a wink and smile covering for betrayal ... these things are not funny. Times, Sunday Times
Added to this are all the expected red herrings, betrayals, and double-crosses.
There is no greater betrayal than to impoverish a generation yet unborn by willful acts of amnesia.
Josh had been promoted recently because of a treacherous betrayal by the old Number Four.
Hellé did not retire immediately from racing, but her story now was one of betrayal, impoverishment and obscurity.
The walls daubed with her name and accuse the girl of betrayal.
There are no words, no internal dialogue that can quell my feeling of betrayal.
Langs (1974 stated emphatically that the failure to share a preordained termination leads to “overintense, paranoid-like, rageful and vengeful fantasies, which are based on the sense of betrayal, “because the therapist has compromised himself and no longer invites trust” (p. Clinical Work with Adolescents
He describes her feeling of utter betrayal at the circumstances that led to her downfall.
Kirby: Her pseudo-marriage to the octogenarian was the worst kind of betrayal of the covenant. Too sad to watch?
Control: emotional, language and behavior. Think: Life, death and eternity. Abandon: evil, ignorance and betrayal. Train: a rational and humble and curiousness.
Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal. George Orwell
Behind all the pie charts, there are countless anguishing personal stories of betrayal, abandonment, and financial hardship. Beverly Willett: The Most Pioneering Divorce Reform Effort In 40 Years
Amid plots and counterplots, tragedy and betrayal, victory and terror, the fate of the Starks, their allies, and their enemies hangs perilously in the balance, as each endeavors to win that deadliest of conflicts: the game of thrones. source: Variety HBO Greenlights Fantasy Television Pilot for George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones | /Film
The resulting yawp was one of terror and betrayal.
For some, there was a lingering feeling of betrayal. Times, Sunday Times
With rich, pure prose Hoffman charts the always unexpected progress of Gretel Samuelson from the time Gretel is a young girl already acquainted with betrayal and grief, until she finally leaves home. Local Girls: Summary and book reviews of Local Girls by Alice Hoffman.
To Coleridge himself, however, his enforced departure from Ottery seemed like betrayal.
The motif of betrayal and loss is crucial in all these stories.
It's more the betrayal of trust of people who got really close to me. The Sun
But we don't want to give too much away as intrigue and betrayal are at the heart of the storylines. The Sun
It is a saga of rags and riches, loves won and lost, and, in the end, betrayal, malefaction, and regret. Grace Metalious: Peyton Place's Real Victim
In one of its newest series, "I Married a Mobster," the daughter-in-law of the Columbo family's legendary star, Sonny Franzese, reveals a story of misprized love and betrayal at the hands of Sonny's son, John, a junkie who swept her off her feet when she met him while working at a rehab facility in California. War, Sex and Counterterrorism
Caught up in a dark world of betrayal and deceit, theirs is not a conventional love story. The Sun
The business community regarded the measures as a betrayal of election promises.
It was a far more egregious betrayal than the oft-cited Munich Pact. Eric Margolis: The Ghosts of Yalta Haunt Us Today
In view of that betrayal, was it too embarrassing to make a fuss on his behalf? Times, Sunday Times
But the leaders of the fascist bands were outraged at this "betrayal". The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
Yet amid the betrayal and back-stabbing, the cruelty and crime, the play ultimately has a happy, almost spiritual, finale, shaking the audience out of its 21st century complacency to ask: has anything really changed?
It is a game whose rules are betrayal and paranoia; whose tools are spies and observation drones and cruise missiles.
A tale of murder, bribery, betrayal and intrigue follows as the plot gathers pace and Solomon races to towards the finish line.
And since I'm making melodrama, contriving a plot is hardly a betrayal of that.
The title overstates the case: Wall Street and Washington did not betray the American people: betrayal presumes an obligation, an obligation which existed only as a fantasy in the population at large, a fantasy no more or less vacuous than our millennial belief in gods. Planet Atheism
Additionally there were protests from the Elf colonies in the Old World who saw the departure of the armies as a betrayal.
To me, the thing that is worse than death is betrayal. You see, I could conceive death, but I could not conceive betrayal. Malcolm X
It is 1969, and a cloistered block in west Philadelphia is shaken to its core by long kept secrets, betrayal and lies that wreak terrible damage on two families.
What could possibly have driven me to such an abhorrent act of (middle) class betrayal? Times, Sunday Times
Tim watched Rayner's betrayal with the horrified anticipation of a first-day-on-the-floor med student at a thoracotomy. THE KILL CLAUSE
For some, there was a lingering feeling of betrayal. Times, Sunday Times
A many-sided tale of faith and betrayal, drama and intrigue, set in the world of old Edo. I want them all
If you go (metaphorically speaking) down the British class scale, you've gone from Cockney to "mockney," and can expect a public tar and feathering; to go the other way is to perform an unforgivable act of class betrayal. Speaking in Tongues
Sloppy at "tradecraft," Ames left incriminating trash like typewriter ribbons from which FBI analysts could piece together messages to the KGB. Other moles: Now the CIA and KGB must try to compose a larger picture of the damage caused by Ames's betrayals. How Ames Fooled The Cia
Raised on a diet of historical bungles, betrayals and defeats, we've hardly an ounce of self-belief left.
Every police officer and prosecutor encounters a few such men: soulless abominations that delight in torment, betrayal, and wanton suffering.
In Much Ado the shift to verse expresses the bitterness and sense of betrayal felt by Claudio at Hero's supposed infidelity.
Crouched over in agony, Ruth's terrible cry of betrayal seems torn from the depths of her soul.
He was aware of sharp disappointment and betrayal.
But we don't want to give too much away as intrigue and betrayal are at the heart of the storylines. The Sun
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling the commutation a "betrayal of trust of the American people. CNN Transcript Jul 2, 2007
This was the first in a series of betrayals.
Revolution, and its betrayal by a regime which both prescribes and proscribes literature, are described in both works.
It is my contention that she didn't really betray anyone, and that the real agents of betrayal in all of this are the media.
But some investors do not need or want advice, and this dirty backroom deal is a betrayal. Times, Sunday Times
I'll speak this hour with former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson about her life as a spy and what she calls her betrayal by the White House. CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2007
Teixeira regarded the order as a betrayal of his mission and refused point-blank.
A setting of Hugo von Hofmannstahl's relentlessly grim adaptation of Sophocles 'tragedy of betrayal and revenge in the house of Atreus, "Elektra" scored an immediate success at its premiere and has been a fixture in the international repertory ever since. Strauss's Clear Success: 'Elektra' in Concert
The fine line between loyalty and betrayal is like gossamer.
The espionage, the betrayals, the arrests, the tortures, the executions, the disappearances will never cease.
Despite his eventual betrayal of me-for which I have forgiven him-Hu was a superb implementer and an outstanding public servant.
Trust and betrayal became a central nexus in radical opposition politics and the stakes could be very high.
The play of politics, with its betrayal and intrigue and calculation and conspiracy, holds the common persons in thrall…
Mourning in anticipation, 71 railway enthusiasts took steam's eclipse by diesel and electric traction to be history's greatest betrayal.
It takes effort to refuse, and besides, there's always the danger that the refusal will be interpreted as a rebuff, a betrayal of religion, and a calloused disregard for people in need.
Any effort to stray from it felt like a light betrayal before crescendoing to a near blackout. It Wasn't Me.
He was aware of sharp disappointment and betrayal.
The Sovereigns, still in apoplexy over the betrayal, promised their favor to the man who brought the Traitor back alive.
Betrayal of the figure who embodies loyalty to community and kinship can be read as a choice to follow a foreign set of values.
The Betrayal of Christ (National Gallery, Dublin) is set in darkness tumultuous with the flicker of flambeaux on steel.
In the impeachment complaint, Estrada has been charged with bribery, graft and corruption, betrayal of public trust and culpable violation of the Constitution.
They may fear to extend love and acceptance to the new partner as it seems a betrayal of the absent parent.
Anything less is a profound betrayal of trust. Times, Sunday Times
No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver.... The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh. Stephen King
Last week's treaty was neither a triumph nor a great betrayal but we still need to ask what is the EU for? The Sun
The little jade dog on my shelf stared at me with bulging eyes, reminding me that betrayal from within the zenana was the least of my fears. Kushiel's Avatar
There's the purblind betrayal of stern poetics.
His life was a sorry story of betrayal and rejection.
As he tries to find out what happened, he is sucked into a world of gunmen and no-go garrisons, brutalities and betrayals.
Harry's wretched past revisits him vividly, trailing behind it issues of betrayal, death, punishment and revenge.
That sense of betrayal begins when skepticism gives way to certainty, when possibilities congeal into formulaic ideology. Robert Teitelman: Michael Hirsh's "Capital Offense"
Betrayal is common for men with no conscience. Toba Beta
The cocaine trade being so lucrative, it encouraged disloyalty and betrayal.
The union's betrayals have not merely been the product of the cowardice of a few self-seeking union leaders.
Subtitled: “Talk Show Interviews with Coatlicue the Aztec Goddess, Malinche the Maligned, the Virgin of Guadalupe and La Llorona: The Wailer,” the fierce foursome is a celebration of the dark goddesses — Mexican figures that have been imprisoned inside the symbols of (respectively) destruction, betrayal, saintliness and errant motherhood. Agua Santa: Holy Water : Rigoberto González : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
The kind of radical fideism that some evangelical Christians are exhibiting toward catastrophic global warming is a betrayal of science and a betrayal of the Christian intellectual tradition …. Eco-Justice
I feel a huge sense of loss and betrayal. The Sun
We are on the lovers' side, and yet as Gaveston schemes betrayal from the word go, and as Spencer comes tumbling after him in Edward's affections, we sense more schoolboy crush than heartfelt passion.
The Franco-German axis has taken the weight of many disputes, misunderstandings, betrayals and jolting halts.
Most political defections have a story behind them, one of disappointed hopes or betrayal.
Manville did not regard his surveillance as a betrayal of trust, either.
His defection to the other side was the ultimate betrayal.
A shameful catalogue of abandonment, betrayal, sell-out, dishonesty and total breach of trust.
In history there have been many great betrayals. Times, Sunday Times
That is why for so many of us, Moore's series is a betrayal because he isn't doing his "reimagination" with respect for the original in the way that Burton did with his Planet Of The Apes reinvention. Home Theater Forum
Manville did not regard his surveillance as a betrayal of trust, either.
At one table sat a gentleman of the name of Faversham, who had ridden on the previous night in that ill-fated camisado that should have resulted in the capture of Cromwell at Spetchley, but which, owing to a betrayal -- when was a Stuart not betrayed and sold? The Tavern Knight
In fury Beethoven scratched out the dedication at the betrayal of his ideals.
His first need was to find out whether Cambridge University would regard his leaving as betrayal.
Otherwise we will consider each of them to be signatories to this brazen betrayal of trust. Times, Sunday Times
Yet amid the betrayal and back-stabbing, the cruelty and crime, the play ultimately has a happy, almost spiritual, finale, shaking the audience out of its 21st century complacency to ask: has anything really changed?
This is a betrayal of patient trust. Times, Sunday Times
David Mamet's cinematic creations are often stylized portraits of greed, betrayal and brinksmanship.
As an "almost native" long term Arizonan who is now in political exile in large part due to the illegal immigration situation and border wars going on now in my former home state, I cannot begin to express the outrage and betrayal I felt on behalf of myself and my fellow Arizonans who have thus far been victimized by this situation and governmental negligence after the news conference held by Mr. Obama this evening. The Border War: An Arizonan's Perspective
As I stared at my half-finished cup of tea, I felt a certain sense of betrayal.
It was a massive betrayal of trust. Times, Sunday Times
This is a twisted tale of crime, lust, violence and betrayal, hidden identities, double-crosses, and vengeance with an attitude.
I will speak this hour with former CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson about her life as a spy and what she calls her betrayal by the White House. CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2007
And would the listener recognise the deeper significance, in Cantata 105, of the worship of money as a betrayal of Christ without that motivic relationship?
And yet one of the many enigmas about this most enigmatic of men was how he could combine so obvious and genuine a love for his wife of 41 years with the endless affairs and betrayals which must have made her life a misery.
The exhausted nurse, Hana; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English patient, the nameless, burn victim who lies in an upstairs room and whose memories of passion, betrayal, and rescue illuminate this book like flashes of heat lightning. The English Patient « Books « Literacy News
Mr Fraser says many businesspeople feel a sense of betrayal at the Government's loss of nerve over the euro.
It's a tale of love, hatred, betrayal and greed, which moves with the pace of a bull elephant, the ferocity of a wounded lion and with more twists and turns than a hunted gazelle.
Having an affair is one thing, but this was a complete betrayal. The Sun
No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver.... The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh. Stephen King
'But thou wast of a totally different mind before thy betrayal. THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
This is unskillful because it requires subterfuge and deceit, it means that solemn promises made at the time of marriage are broken, and it amounts to a betrayal of trust.
A figure of fun, his name was jeered for his hypocrisy, booed for his betrayal.
Infidelity is the ultimate betrayal.
As Benjamin and his twin sister try to evade the police, they find themselves recalling their dead parentsthe father who lost a leg in Vietnam, the mother who created children's booksand their stories about trust, loss, and betrayal. The World To Come: Summary and book reviews of The World To Come by Dara Horn.
And what this film glamorizes is the betrayal of personal and civic loyalties. Christianity Today
There was no doubt that many in the folk music scene regarded the transition to electric guitar as a betrayal and a sell-out of everything they believed in.
And an adoptive mother, while sympathetic to her child's need to connect with a birthparent, said the tug of that love felt like an "adulterous" betrayal. The Tug Of Love, No Winners Here, A Father's Lame
Amid the discomforts of his passage the author reflects on or trawls his past, his sorrows and betrayals, his experience as a wartime evacuee.
Black is the darkest betrayal, forgiveness Who Loved the pain.
Would a solo project feel like a betrayal? Times, Sunday Times
We inhabit a space of restless disquiet, and into that space popular culture introduces cathartic visions of disruptions, destructions, calamities, betrayals, gratifications, fulfillments and healings.
But the dirty little secret is that this is a bodice-ripping page-turners of a TV series, filled with intrigue and romance and danger and betrayal and all the sort of thing one finds in a soap. Michael Giltz: DVDs: Johnny Carson Outshines His Boxed Set
Playing what I call the betrayal sweepstakes -- a ceaseless denunciation of the administration's failures and missteps -- doesn't get us very far. The 'principled left' Obama needs
C) backstab a lot of the tea-baggers because he does want to keep his job, returning to his fairly liberal Republican roots (hint: he voted for the Massachusetts health care program), and we’ll get to hear quite a bit of moaning and griping from the tea-baggers about this Great Betrayal when they fail to win back a majority in 2010 and 2012. Matthew Yglesias » Why Coakley Losing Won’t Matter That Much
A relationship will have one of two home bases, Dym says: contraction and betrayal, or resolution.
Will just gave me a look of such utter wrath and betrayal that I took an involuntary step backwards as he strode towards me.
There is no greater betrayal than to impoverish a generation yet unborn by willful acts of amnesia.
He felt betrayal, he felt used and most of all he felt stupid and embarrassed especially for buying such an expensive gift for this poor excuse of a woman.
His defection to the other side was the ultimate betrayal.
It feels like a betrayal to be flying off on holiday when there are so many problems to deal with.
In Seduction and Betrayal, for example, she located Virginia Woolf's special and claustral narrowness, her aggravated femininity, less in her situation as a woman than in the aestheticism and androgyny of Bloomsbury. On Elizabeth Hardwick (1916–2007)
A part of his mind clouded over by shock and horror had taken control of his body and thoughts, driving him onward through a haze of pain and betrayal.
The sheer authority in his voice revealed his kingliness, and for a moment I understood Roahin's fear, if not his betrayal.
To escape this bitter betrayal, she decides to fake her own death and disappear.
CF: I can't accept the word betrayal because an artist has the absolute right and responsibility to follow their path -- to follow what interests them -- I felt certainly disappointed I was always looking for a book to touch me the way those early books did... but I never did. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The tender attention paid by the wife to her husband's body, the detailed steps of her betrayal, and the subtle note of portent, all serve to heighten the drama.
The accusing look in her eyes conveyed her sense of betrayal.
The consummation of this superiority would be the betrayal itself - that would set her above all others.

How To Use Betrayal In A Sentence

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