Mayweather revels in the inane taunts and provocations that invariably precede a big fight; it sometimes seems that he prefers this buildup to the fight itself.
Claud listens to his father's blues recordings sometimes now, although he prefers gospel.
This physique, combined with his closely cropped beard and the black flat cap he prefers, sometimes gives him the aspect of a longshoreman.
Yet we can feel sometimes that, in aesthetic terms, he prefers the Giant to kill the Jack.
The man himself may sometimes chafe at the reputation, exasperated by those fans who prefer 'funny Woody Allen' to the more serious, literary or Ingmar Bergman-obsessed cinephile he sometimes prefers to be.
When he stopped, in 1991, he had guided viewers through a series of general elections, demystified a couple of royal weddings and a moon landing ("There it is, the old Moon the one the cow jumped over") and presented the news several thousand times.Although he sometimes worked for the BBC, he preferred the more lowbrow independent television.
His wife, Bebe, 55, said in an interview last night outside the couple's home on 120th Street in Richmond Hill, Queens, that Mr. DeClercq was generous to a fault, sometimes telling their children that he preferred not to receive Christmas gifts so they could spend more on his grandchildren.
Shortstop Ian Desmond said that when he was called up to the major leagues in 2009, he sometimes preferred playing away games because other stadiums had more fans and more buzz.
He sometimes preferred those topics to the repetitive nuances of South Asia's dysfunctional politics.
Born and raised in San Francisco, Frank – or Francisco as he sometimes preferred – developed a passion for jazz at an early age.
