Word: betraying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This trend too shall pass, as Hollywood rediscovers the dangerous differences between an art built on artifice and one that tilts toward realism. The theater's delicate conspiracy of pretense and believability can betray the most faithful filmmakers. In close-up, gestures become italicized, speeches sound like sermons, and a powerful actor can look like a ham going over the top. You can spot these fatal flaws in three plays just landing on the big screen. The sound they make is thud...
...open letter does represent an important step beyond the dean's previous communications on the subject. At those times, the administration established guidelines for dealing with future cases, should they arise, and set up a committee to investigate fraud after the fact. Those approaches betray the hesitancy with which Med School administrators planned for future fraud. Apparently they did not know what to expect...
...enough that the secretary, a 1971 graduate of the Law School, consistently uses Harvard's good name to bring attention to himself and his wacky proposals. What is worse is when he does so in the service of ideas that betray an ignorance of what higher education is all about and the ways members of an intellectual community--any community, actually--ought to conduct themselves...
Authoritarian approaches do not lead to lasting political solutions. Israeli leaders must adopt a different attitude toward dissent or betray the democratic ideals on which their nation was founded. The U.S. can back Israel without backing intolerance and oppression. American influence in Israel is enormous. It should support more democracy, not less...
...first double-take, calling secular humanism a religion seems a contradiction in terms. Here the fundamentalists, of all people, have made "secular" and "religious" interchangeable ideas, rather than antonyms. By putting them on a par, the fundamentalists betray their real agenda: not just sheltering their religious beliefs, but building a shelter of intolerance against a whole range of other values and social practices...