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...secluded life away from its glitter. He was forever holding up fashionable cliches to good-humored examination, asking himself (and his readers) "Is that so?" He would attack the steamrollers that seemed to be flattening originality out of American life. But in the next sentence, he would profess his faith in the ability of Americans to go their individual ways. Two Came to Town, the last of his eleven books, was one such affirmation...
McBride and De Valera have one thing in common: they both profess to believe in a Republican Ireland isolated and cut off from the rest of the world; and most of the young people in the country are anxious to see Eire take its stand with the U.S. and Great Britain in their effort to create better world conditions...
More reckless spirits favor a type of poker known as "the fiery cross." No hand here comes cheaper than a flush, which generally gets flushed where it belongs. With practically every card in the deck wild, so are the players, who also profess proficiency in the double cut and the under-arm shift...
...think of Him as something like a vast tapioca pudding. (To make matters worse, she disliked tapioca.) We may feel ourselves quite safe from this degree of absurdity, but we are mistaken. If a man watches his own mind, I believe he will find that what profess to be specially advanced or philosophic conceptions of God are, in his thinking, always accompanied by vague images which, if inspected, would turn out to be even more absurd than the manlike images aroused by Christian theology. For man, after all, is the highest of the things we meet in sensuous experience...
...results of the probe. The Veteran named names, but did not actually pin a Red label on anyone. Instead, it published a sort of catechism, and then listed the names of some "two-timing Catholics" it would like to have answer its questions. Said the Veteran: such persons "publicly profess Catholicism under circumstances or in situations which make such profession suspiciously beneficial to a suspiciously anti-Christian cause...