Sentence examples for professed hostility from inspiring English sources

For two decades, he was one of the most skillful players in Washington, and his passion for big projects has always coexisted uneasily with his professed hostility to big government.

This step requires some hermeneutic manipulation, but the Stoic overtones of Cicero's account in De officiis have prepared the way for it ironically, perhaps, in view of Valla's professed hostility towards Stoicism since enduring hardship with Stoic patience is easily linked to the Pauline message that we become strong by being tested (II Cor. 12 10, quoted by Valla).

The French elite profess hostility to America, but ordinary folk lap up Americana.

On the other hand, Moses Nahmanides, an important exegete in his own right, a very astute reader of texts, and a staunch opponent of Aristotle, professed his "open hostility and concealed love" for Ibn Ezra.

And so, where Sartre talked of the individual's need to remake himself every day in the light of an indifferent or even hostile world, Foucault, Derrida and co professed to see only the indifference and hostility.

He professed unconcern.

They professed encouragement on Wednesday.

The parties professed mutual admiration.

Mr. Paterson professed no hard feelings.

Clemens predictably professed innocence.

Kozinski professed astonishment.