Sentence examples for profess some from inspiring English sources

It does at least profess some idealism, and it isn't ridiculous.

Of four and a half million citizens, fifteen per cent are Muslims; nearly all the rest profess some form of Christianity, often infused with animist beliefs.

About two-thirds of all Chinese profess some degree of attachment to Confucianism, Buddhism, or Daoism or to some combination thereof.

But then there are bands that profess some type of image that they live and lead, but it's not something that they actually do.

It estimates that 5.8 billion adults and children around 84% of the world population in 2010 have some kind of religious affiliation.Of the 1.1 billion unaffiliated, many profess some belief in a higher power.

And for the most part, it's also not as if they clearly believe in universalism, but just profess some kind of openess, undecidedness, or confusion on the issue: "I still have to think about that some more" — although that may be getting a bit closer to the position of a lot of the folks I'm writing about.

Mission accomplished, the coach then professed some admiration for the opposition his team had just destroyed.

It has become acceptable to simply ignore it, professing some mixture of doubt, bafflement and apathy.

Major McKesson professed some doubt that the pilot had been killed.

He professes some bewilderment at the way the wine industry has changed.

Then again, Mr. Rothenberg has professed some ambivalence about the idea of tapping his heritage for aesthetic purposes.