Word: profound
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liberator, but he likes to feel that his active editorial days are past. He has also written essays, poetry, plays, criticism. Two general books, one of them the excellent Were Ton, Ever a Child? were published before his first novel. Dell is a conscientious workman and a profound student of psychology. He has taught himself to write well and he is forever striving to learn more. I have always felt that he will one day rank as a major American novelist...
...profound banality! And yet there is undoubtedly a charm in such adept periphrasis as this...
...stories rises to greatness, or pretends to do so. Some are mere sketches, some full-length, none are wholly serious. All abound in laughing observation of the antics of children and young lovers, all are excellent in the reproduction of Negro dialect and children's prattle. None is profound or disturbing, keeping the level of a quiet humor. The critics. The New York Times: " It is as if Mr. Tarkington kept a day book of observations-drawn from a very nice neighborhood." Robert Cortes Holiday: "Mr. Tarkington seems to present himself as a rather playful neurologist. Something like...
...second tendency that is acting to bring back religion, he declared, was the profound disillusionment about man's superficial progress. "May it not be," he asked, "that the progress of man depends not upon the abundance of his material possessions...
...analysis," says he, " the power of the student to grasp the essential features of problems is the great differentiation between the educated and the non-educated man." But it may be said truthfully that the power to know what problems to wrestle with, and when, is a differentiation equally profound. Intense application to the essential features of the problems of violin technique during the combustion of Rome is hardly the mark of a sound education...