"If I could put wheels on my house, maybe I'd leave," said Mr. Paul, who professes as much love for the Manhattan stage as for his suburban oasis.
It's a disgrace to leave it at that and not put that privilege to good use — even more so when one professes as much knowledge and enlightenment as Whitey does.
When a scholar as eminent as Hobsbawm professes perplexity as well as pessimism about the future the rest of us will be naturally inclined to share his anxieties.
Sister Mary was professed as a Sister of Mercy in 1958 and taught at various schools in Brooklyn.
I was at a John McDonnell rally in Newcastle last weekend, and the word "democracy" kept being professed as the crowds cheered.
Or he could try to explain what appeared to many to be the contradiction between Mr. Wright's world view and the one Mr. Obama had professed as his own.
It's deism, the faith most closely associated with the Enlightenment, which professes, as Critchley puts it, that "there's a God, but a God that doesn't do party tricks".
That's why you'll find that most countries harbor some form of irredentist frustration, if not professed as government policy, then whispered on the fringes of the political spectrum.
Dogma (Latin decretum, Greek dogma) has come to have a more specific reference to the distillate of doctrines: those first (basic or axiomatic) principles at the heart of doctrinal reflection, professed as essential by all the faithful.
After he returned to Paris, the nun, Marianna, wrote him anguished letters professing, as love letters often do, both her undying passion for him and her anger at him for leaving her, often almost within the same breath.
