Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unit it is altogether merry and kind and mildly sophisticated, with a great joy in being Yale men and a profound contempt for any comic or unworthy trading on the name it bears...
...have no other purpose or effect than affording an entrance to the league. It is doubtless partly on that very account that the proposed step has had such wide support as well as opposition. If Senator Borah's view is justified in fact, the proposed policy deserves more profound consideration from American citizens than it has yet received. It is then more than a mere sentimental question, but one involving the political relations of this country to Europe. On that question men may well differ. But if that is the issue it is at least a real one, justifying...
...Profound Consideration Needed
...against the rigid prescriptions of duty. Thus, when a lover makes use of this trite argument: "Either nature is imperfect in itself, by giving us inclinations that the laws condemn, or the laws are justly accusable or too great severity, in condemning inclinations given us by nature", this profound sophistry means: "Since you have scruples, my game is to remove them. Reasin may give itself what airs it pleases; but if you love me, nature will do the rest of my work...
...extraordinarily effective. Last year it was Processional she did so well. It is to be feared that The Glass Slipper will have a limited appeal, as did that biting experiment. Yet the time is coming when she will find a play that is popular as well as cutting and profound. Then will she be known through the length at the fourth performance, and it is now nearly harmless?even to and breadth of the broad land as one of the finest younger actresses on a stage whose younger actresses are certainly its soundest asset...