Sentence examples for professed lack of from inspiring English sources

Stanford is an ostentatiously wealthy Texan with a professed lack of interest in Test cricket.

Mr Miliband's professed lack of interest might not be the only stumbling block.

Her professed lack of interest in the official tally is part of her mystique and reflects her intense desire for privacy.

Despite a professed lack of techno-savvy, Ms. Sillman recently stumbled on a relatively new method for exploring her interest in avoiding endings.

A Life Examined One of the curiosities about Mr. Obama is his professed lack of interest in the writers who pore over that life, trying to deconstruct his fractured family and geography.

The editor's professed lack of faith in the honesty of the unnamed officials cited in the report (which was reflected in a large caveat eventually added to the article) did not, however, prevent the scoop from spreading to international news organizations.

MGMT went to Columbia despite a self-professed lack of pop appeal.

And no one seems cowed by Mr. Kelly's self-professed lack of interest.

However, in 1989 he decided to shift his focus from orthopedic surgery to basic research, due to a self-professed (perhaps tongue-in-cheek) lack of confidence in his own surgical technique.

I would beg to veer off at an angle here: if one were feeling curmudgeonly it would be easier to call him, with his lack of leadership experience and self-professed incomplete knowledge of the dramatic canon, a risk.

In arguing that he should not be released during the trial, prosecutors contended that Santilli was a danger and a flight risk due to his "professed unwillingness to abide by any authority" and his lack of ties to Oregon.