All together it renders him uncommitted, slickly distracting from his lack of big moments, preferring anything but emphasis.
Swearing that she would prefer anything to remaining in their convent boarding school, she mutters, just out of hearing of the nuns, "I'd rather be a Protestant".
Readers of both genders overwhelmingly prefer anything to do with their own nation than anything to do with any other, and more often than not favour the perspective of its ruling class.
In playing both brothers Hardy manifests the tension that has been playing itself out in his own career, as the actor seems driven to deny the handsome-leading-man parts that beckon him and instead prefers anything he can use to dirty and disguise himself.
They need to figure out for themselves what sorts of books they like best -- some can't get enough of the big fantasy novels, others prefer anything sports-related, there are those who get lost in graphic novels, and those who want to sob over something sad.
David Chase, for example, describes having to "sit through these moronic meetings, in which every timid, weak, vapid idea was always preferred to anything revolutionary or new".
In 1974, he played Chief Supt Craddock in Ken Hill's Gentleman Prefer Anything, the last of his shows at Stratford East.
When researchers ask parents what they enjoy, it turns out that they prefer almost anything to looking after their children.
But I was never a sweets eater, preferring, if anything, a piece of fruit, and sometimes I found myself idly paring an apple the way my mother had when I was little, and making bunny ears with the skin.
Every night after Lights Out at school, Pat Wilson and I lean out of our cubicle windows, which are next to each other, and discuss Astronomy, which we both prefer to anything as far as work goes.
