In fact, my parents were friends with an Irishman who gave us a homemade fruit bowl this same Christmas and then the following winter betrayed the spirit of Christmas by making a different kind of homemade gift with which he tried to blow up No. 11 Downing Street.
"Clouds," of 1937, betrays familiarity with Constable's sky studies.
A riverside landscape photographed around 1898 betrays his awareness of Corot's painting.
"Chernovtsi," an original cibachrome dated 1987, betrays Saveliev's interest in industry.
The quaint scene today betrays the brutality suffered by the prisoners there.
His short story, "Betrothal in Saint Domingue" (1811), betrays an almost visceral loathing of Haiti's revolted slaves.
He believes that the Fed's unilateral tightening (ie, its decision to slow its bond purchases in December and again last month) betrays the spirit of multilateral loosening that followed the 2008-9 global financial crisis.
Although the works in the show span nearly two decades, a drawing made in 1990 compared to one made in 1999 betrays no sense of the passing of years, no reference to the events of a lifetime.
But the list of writers who inspired him — including Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, and Thomas Wolfe, all born between 1871 and 1900 — betrays how America's presumption of white male superiority shaped him, as well as his taste in literature.
France today betrays many of the signs of the cultural and social rigidity that has paralyzed Japan.
