Likewise, Cesare — who secretly dreads his preordained future running the bank his family has owned for generations — loves Beth not only for who she is, but for where she's from: the country whose history he has studied, whose writers he prefers and whose customs he finds endearing, if sometimes a bit baffling.
He also preferred playwrights whose success depended upon his collaboration.
Like other Abstract Expressionists, Pollock preferred Jung, whose psychology posits universal mythic patterns.
But they preferred Burress, whose transgressions with the Giants — failing to arrive five minutes early for meetings, for instance — will not register the same seismic shock at the Jets' headquarters in Florham Park, N.J.
But when it came to a hunting buddy, at least, it seems as though Scalia preferred someone whose politics were about as far from Justice Ginsburg's as they could be.
I seem to prefer characters whose lives, and minds, are close to the edge.
And she prefers companies whose ratio of debt to total capitalization is less than 25percentt.
RICHARD BRODY: I prefer John Wayne, whose anger seems truly to threaten violence.
"Often, it is not the co-op board, but the seller, who prefers someone whose assets are more liquid," said Eloise Johnson of Halstead, the Narasins' real estate agent.
Dealers also prefer buyers whose ownership will burnish the artist's credentials; primacy generally goes to institutions, or to those who have private museums, and then to those whose collections are virtually museums unto themselves.
