As for Mayweather, his speech was a characteristically intricate blend of protestations and professions.
A united unionist front is bad form, but any protestations of horror, such as the three local Tories who quit in disgust, sound like Captain Renault in Casablanca being shocked to find gambling going on.
It was the first of many protestations of innocence from Chua, six months after his arrest for murder.
This type of petulant idealism is its own form of entitlement — as childish, in a way, as the Veruca Salt-y protestations of the Plumb siblings in "The Nest".
(Presuming, of course, that Hamas' protestations about prejudice include "Zionist" Jews, meaning almost all of us).
But neither half of her protestations stand up.
She is right — the mock shame of such protestations is a common and pretentious reflex.
On a whim Gerald buys her a gun, despite (or maybe because of) her protestations.
For all of his protestations, Kokorich has maintained several economic ties with partners in Russia.
I am going to speak my mind regardless of your protestations.
