Sentence examples for managed to betray from inspiring English sources
a friend managed to betray me.
The literary critic Christian Lorentzen noted, in a recent New York magazine essay, that the movie manages to betray Wallace's thought in Wallace's own words, and that's almost exactly true.
And he has managed to go Shakespearean without ever betraying the people he writes about and their fierce hunger for life, no matter how painful.
Keeping my composure, I managed to change the topic of conversation without betraying my disappointment.
Yvan Colonna, Prefect Erignac's alleged killer, managed to hide out for four years without anyone betraying him to the police.
The great Nora Ephron managed to define a whole era of the genre despite betraying constant, well-earned cynicism about the quality of man available to the average upper-middle-class New York lady.
For a while, Comet flourished alongside another Belgian escape line, known as Pat, which managed to send some 600 men to Britain before it was betrayed and wound up in 1942.
While George W Bush managed to grasp that America existed and, indeed, was America, his 2006 slogan betrayed a rather basic understanding of what a government does: "Real plans for real people".
His first script was to be Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, about a young Argentinian called Toto who grows up enamoured of film (the autobiographical parallels are clear), but he never managed to write the screenplay.
