Sentence examples for professed to hating from inspiring English sources

He professed to hating bloodshed and said he would not hunt because he did not like killing animals.

He first saw the opera in March 1903, and professed to hate it.

Then even people who professed to hate cauliflower couldn't get enough of it.

It was like running into a former office mate who still works at the job they always professed to hate.

Not long afterwards Shoriki was stabbed in the neck with a Japanese sword by an ex-policeman who professed to hate his pro-Americanism.

He often professed to hate acting, and his best performances at once make nonsense of this claim and prove its accuracy.

He professed to hate the hype the books created in his lifetime, and most members of his family have distanced themselves from Peter Jackson's epic.

Kahn professed to hate the plumbing, but claimed that the pipes would ruin his building if he didn't allow them visible expression.

Bartók loved Stravinsky's music, specifically The Rite, for the way it harnessed folk music; Stravinsky professed to hate Bartók's music for exactly the same reason.

It was a tumultuous time in all sorts of ways for a young playwright who professed to hate the theatre and all it stood for, and whose success went hand-in-hand with a reputation for outspokenness and bad behaviour.

It is a favourite paradox for critics writing on Chesterton that despite his contempt for the fin de siècle, he was imbued with the spirit of the decade that he professed to hate.