profiling

[Jonathan Lighter]

Inglish marches on.  CNN, Feb. 28
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1302/28/es.05.html  :

"But one thing that they would be almost unanimously saying is that the
next pope has to profile as a reformer on the sex abuse scandals."

He has to "match the psychological or behavioral profile (of); fit the
description (of); be describable; look like."

JL
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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