All-round excellence surely betokens quality, even if other films may be judged to be superior in the individual categories.

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This is why one of the leading symbols for Opus Dei is a simple cross within a circle the symbolism betokens the sanctification of the world from within.

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President Clinton, whose cynicism never loses its power to astonish, put on a long face and, with that tone of sincerity that betokens his tendentiousness, lamented that the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty had become tangled in politics.

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