Sentence examples for professing to like from inspiring English sources

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

The owner of an unprofitable record shop that specialises in rarities, bootlegs and the types of little-known recordings whose ownership identifies one as a high priest of the counter-cultural elect, Rob is the sort of ageing adolescent who can never forgive his girlfriend for deliberately, pre-meditatedly listening to Art Garfunkel records, and worse, actually professing to like them.

It is better to be yourself and risk having people not like you than to suffer the stress and tension that comes from pretending to be someone you're not, or professing to like something that you don't.

He professes to like staying home most nights with his wife and his daughter.

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

A man who professes to like everybody is by definition a man who cares for nobody in particular.

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

She professes to like journalists and says she does not mind life in the glare of television lights.

And if those customers that profess to like independents carry on using Waterstone's, that will tell us we still have work to do to.

But there is darker Sondheim ("Passion"), and there is lighter Sondheim ("Putting It Together"), and Sir Cameron does not profess to like it all.

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.