Sentence examples for betokened from inspiring English sources
To us, they betokened intellect.
Broadcasters dispensed with advertising and game shows; the windmills stopped turning, their sails set slightly off-kilter in a way that has betokened grief for centuries.
Moreover, a chubby woman traditionally betokened health and beauty, whereas thinness smacked of disease.
The characteristic emphases on rhetoric and philology, which gave the humanistic movement vitality and made it available to countless students of moderate intellectual gifts, also betokened its impermanence.
The hills behind this massive palace were transformed into magnificent gardens, the Boboli Gardens, filled with fountains, statues, and an amphitheatre; there operas and concerts for the Medici rulers betokened their courtly existence as the absolute rulers of the city.
Although the break with a mission church betokened a desire for independence from whites, there were many motives for separatism.
That she nonetheless remains Labour's best chance illustrates both her personal appeal and the strength of her analysis.But it also betokens the lack of more experienced figures capable of hauling the wheezy party out of its comfort zone.
A fall of this magnitude usually betokens a deep downturn, and under Mr Taylor's proposal would have resulted in a 50 basis point fall in interest rates.
Indeed, the fact that the court declared itself open to establishing a more narrowly defined right to suicide in the future is perhaps just as remarkable as its reluctance to establish a broad one immediately.Not only does the suicide decision betoken less restraint than is commonly argued; in its other recent rulings, the court showed no obvious restraint at all.
All-round excellence surely betokens quality, even if other films may be judged to be superior in the individual categories".The Aviator" certainly has the right subject the father of modern aviation and the father, with his 1930 film "Hell's Angels", of course, of modern action movies.
It disbursed cash for aid far more abundantly than ever before and with fewer strings, betokening a determination to "end poverty".
