He occasionally betrayed a Scottish sense of looking after the "bawbies" when he once said: "Pat has been a wonderful wife: she doesn't care at all for jewels or perfume."

Wertheim's writing occasionally betrays haste, but it is generally lively and readable and stays fresh through countless interviews, each bringing us an individual's voice.

Similarly, although Augustus van Heerden was energetic in the peasant pas de deux, his dancing occasionally betrayed a sense of strain.

As engaging as the waiters are, they occasionally betray their East Village milieu.

Despite his commercial considerations and marketing strategies, Hughes occasionally betrays his seriousness about the work of film making.

Only his expressive eyes occasionally betrayed him, and they now revealed that although the head of Voyager's security was controlled he was not at ease, not at all.

What he is presenting is himself, or rather a polished stage version of himself, that occasionally betrays cracks in his actorly self-assurance.

Though his prose occasionally betrays a reporter's fact-laden unwieldiness and a weakness for cliches, he succeeds in evoking the dense, tactile weave of life in country circa 1965.

Her flashing eyes occasionally betrayed hidden passions, concealed, however, beneath an apparent indifference and lassitude, and her wasted form seemed to acknowledge the existence of some secret grief.

Ms. Garcia does, however, occasionally betray fashion-world ruthlessness, as when she responded to a contestant's on-screen meltdown with "I really don't need to be hearing this."