Sentence examples for betraying himself from inspiring English sources

It was as though, in taking sides he felt over-committed, and in not taking sides he felt he was betraying himself.

He also felt that his father was betraying himself, by giving up his dream of being a first-rate poet and by accepting a second-rate version of himself dependent on adulation and alcohol.

This sordid trade requires regular doses of intimidation (depositing rats in hallways, smashing windows), which Tom administers angrily, spasmodically, with the exasperation of a man who knows he's betraying himself.

After a volley of attacks he had aimed at Mr. Fox days earlier, his exasperated opponent accused Mr. Cardenas of "betraying himself and many Mexicans who believed in him," and even disparaged Mr. Cardenas's mother, a breach of etiquette that signaled a permanent break between the men.

(If he denied that, if he lied about it, just think how he'd be betraying himself!).

But it mattered more, Irving said, that Silberman, who "achieved more than most men could ever have dreamed of," had turned to crime, betraying himself, his wife--San Diego County Supervisor Susan Golding--his family, and his community.

Yet so often he betrayed himself.

He does not betray anger, and he does not betray himself.

Yet Kaufman betrays himself as much with his condescending compassion as with his withering observations.

Doing so, he betrayed himself as a spoiled, overgrown, rich kid.

Mikey is now so unstable he doesn't even trust himself not to betray himself.