He professes something of an addiction to cycling.
True, on its surface, the word just means "someone who professes something," but at least there's a universally comprehensible view of what a professor does.
I'd prefer something openly stated, you know?
"If we are doing something openly, the negative effect could lose its power".
"Mr Barak must say something openly about the settlements," says Mr Erekat.
In Paris, meanwhile, a number of thinkers began to profess atheism openly.
And like many who profess godlessness openly, he has been punished.In a handful of majority-Muslim countries atheists can live safely, if quietly; Turkey is one example, Lebanon another.
Everything is done openly, nothing is rehearsed, and at the end the subjects see a rough cut and speak frankly about the film, as do Morin and Rouch, who profess it something of a failure as they walk around the Musée de l'Homme.
During the dechristianizing campaign of late 1793 and early 1794, Grégoire continued to wear clerical dress and to profess his faith openly; as a member of the Committee of Public Instruction, he tried to save monastery libraries and religious works of art.
But even among those who profess to know something about the subject, the common understanding is that Darwin said man came from monkeys".
Everyone, of all faiths and no faith, knows this truth, and most profess it openly.
