Word: profound
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Once the Duchess of Queensbury came to a Nash-managed dance wearing a white apron (contrary to the Nash rules). He untied the offending garment and flung it to a group of maids in waiting-with profound protestations of respect for Her Grace...
What makes The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene's most profound novel is that Henry Scobie, who seems to have one skin less than his tortured predecessors, actually has one more. In Brighton Rock (1938) Graham Greene drew a horrifying portrait of an adolescent Catholic named Pinkie, who was headed straight for damnation, and dimly, desperately knew it. In The Heart of the Matter he draws a man who is threatened with the same damnation, and sees it-apparently-much more clearly. Every man & woman, of whatever color, who has run into Scobie during his 15 years...
They had been written in wartime to Archbishop William Godfrey, papal Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain, for transmission to the Pope. The first (in October 1943), referring to restrictions imposed on the Pope, by the German occupation of Rome, expressed "to His Holiness my profound sympathy and that of multitudes of Englishmen who are not of his obedience." The second, written on Good Friday, 1944, was another message of sympathy that included a prayer for peace and that "the whole fellowship of Christ's disciples may be so guided by the Holy Spirit that we may together declare...
...Mare's best novels, The Return (1910) and Memoirs of a Midget (1921) are model achievements in mixing realism with a profound sense of the strange. His best stories, especially Seaton's Aunt, have been compared with Henry James's classic Turn of the Screw for their shivery revelation of supernatural influences that might be merely states of mind...
Howard Brinton is a friendly little man with a fuzz of silvery hair and a serene face in which a profound wisdom of the spirit does not imply a complete innocence of the world. One day last week he was discussing the nature and purposes of Pendle Hill, the Quaker school and religious retreat near Philadelphia which he and his wife Anna Brinton have managed for the last twelve years. As he spoke, the folding doors opened, and through the somewhat austere room padded an East Indian woman in full native garb. Looking neither to right nor left, she went...