Sentence examples similar to betoken conduct from inspiring English sources

The story, rooted in prosperous suburbia, with good neighbours determined that pleasant behaviour must betoken fine principles, has a terrible slow-burn inevitability, with tragedy wrapped in secrets.

The comments seemed to betoken a resilience against prejudice.

An uptight move, it did not betoken good manners exactly.

But primetime audiences well under 20,000 betoken disappointment and struggle.

Gluttony and laziness can betoken acedia, one Desert Father, St. John Cassian, warns.

The results obtained betoken the biotechnological potential of ant's venom.

For white Americans, must membership in a nation built on race slavery always betoken guilt?

The arrests seemed to betoken another strand of the nation's pain.

Such universal regard can betoken studied blandness and an unwillingness to challenge the status quo.

The fragments of these poets betoken grandeur in "the high Roman fashion," but they also have a certain ruggedness.

Her sculpture, drawings, and prints betoken general concepts and generic sentiments; however striking, their form is arbitrary.