Word: profound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these details, the plot is sensitive, but again somewhat small. A fifty-three year old manufacturer, whose wife is dead, falls in love with an attractive receptionist, who is younger than his daughter. Plausible problems arise, and are plausibly resolved. A love story emerges that is, if not profound or passionate, commendably candid...
Medical History. Much of the third and final volume of Analyst Jones's painstakingly researched, lovingly written biography* is taken up with an extraordinary account of Freud's illness and its effects on his last years. The effects, never before described in such detail, were painful, profound and sometimes bizarre...
...ideas, and the superficiality with which they are treated. They are so often bandied about lightly as a form of lip service that one cannot help suspecting that much of the so-called acceptance is really a subtle form of rejection, a protection against assimilation of their profound import...
Gerald Holton, associate professor of Physics, emphasized that this is in no sense an honors section for those with high grades. Nevertheless, he stated, "I am endeavoring to see if we can teach to non-scientists as rigorous and profound a program as we do to professional scientists, taking advantage of the special aims of each...
...which I have found myself has led me to love solitary and silent things." Those qualities imbue his art. The timeless, table-top universe Morandi pictures may be as dry as the empty bottles that populate it, but it powerfully conveys-indeed, it creates-an atmosphere of isolation and profound quietude...