Several shrug at the idea, or profess ignorance.
It's a political and symbolic one too, and in the end countless Italians care, or profess to, about the quality of the music.
ACROSS the world, people who reject all religious belief or profess secular humanism are facing ever worse discrimination and persecution, but the existence and legitimacy of such ideas is becoming more widely known and accepted.
It is, of course, a fact that one needs to love professional sports, or profess to do so, if one wishes to be elected to higher office in America, whether or not this requirement makes any sense.
How can one come up with stirring patriotic words that will not offend those Basques, Catalans or Galicians who either do not want to be Spaniards or profess far greater loyalty to their region than to their country?
But I confess — or profess — with all due humility toward and respect for a clearly good and kind and decent woman, to have found her book a crashing, mind-numbing bore.
