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Critics like the all-star cast of voices (Meg Ryan, John Cusack, and Christopher Lloyd) and the animation, which get "the Disney house style down cold" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). But they profess disappointment at the story, especially at the part where Rasputin causes the Russian Revolution by casting a magic spell.
When a federal judge acts against you, you can't just profess shock and outrage, as Jones' attorneys did after Wright's decision.
No, I do not profess that the tax breaks will pay for themselves in no time at all.
Conservatives profess shock that something so "remarkably balanced" was produced by "offensively biased" PBS (Jay Nordlinger, the Weekly Standard ). An exultant Wall Street Journal editorial says the show signals that "honest liberals" have found a "new appreciation" for Reagan.
They profess revulsion at such vulgar subplots as a high-school student's affair with his teacher and a character who masturbates while watching Katie Couric.