Sentence examples for professed liking from inspiring English sources

Because they were mostly cast as blocks, the result was startling: a landslide for the unorthodox Mr Koizumi, with his silver suit, dishevelled hair and professed liking for heavy metal music.

Despite his professed liking for Bates's "direct and concise" style, he quotes at length Bates' description of the tropics, with the James spends much space in his review quoting Bates's account of the strangling fig, called the "Murderer Liana or Sipo", which he uses to emphasize the "struggle for existence" between plants, as much as for animals.

He found his students "responsive and contentious"—if not especially talented and made a point of learning their names quickly and finding out what sort of books they liked (Gravity's Rainbow was the rage, and Cheever also professed to like it or rather, he liked it better than Vonnegut's work, which was almost always the other favorite).

Neither professed to like the Vikings or the Giants, but wanted to attend the game to heckle Favre.

While he professes to liking many of the ones he's come across, McGann observes: "We seem to have stepped back as a country.

3. (B) At an event in Chicago this week, Justice Scalia professed to like Deep Dish, but, as per the original intent of pizza makers, insisted that it not be called "pizza" but "tomato pie".

He professed to like the film, was directed by Pierre Thoretton, who was once married to the daughter of Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve, a Saint Laurent muse who was one of the designer's closest friends and most loyal customers.

Cameron is the kind of politician Britons like; Brown is the kind they profess to like but don't.

Ish has professed a liking for poet Robert Frost's colloquialisms; he tells me: "To me poetry doesn't have any form – or any science to it – people are inventing new ways of transmitting language every day.

He it was who professed a liking for cooking with wine, adding: "Sometimes I put it in the food".

Despite professing to "like Mike enormously," he did not sound displeased at the thought.