Word: profound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little boy." The image obscured her rightful claim as the most dynamic and poignant singer-actress of her time: a 5-ft. 1-in. Statue of Libido carrying a torch with a blue flame. Her phrasings were as witty as Streisand's, her dredgings of a tormented soul as profound as Aretha's, her range wider than all comers...
Some of the more priceless moments of The Day Room have only tangential relevance to the action at hand. One of the benefits of having all one's characters lunatics is that virtually any parenthetical comment may be expanded into a foolishly profound discourse. Richard Grusin, playing a sleazy motel desk clerk, launches into an elegy on stains and their makers, while Thomas Derrah portrays a straightjacketed mental patient and Middle American T.V. set simultaneously with equal conviction and vigor...
...there other animals that the Masai consider to be close to God?" The visitor had decided, in vague tracery, that the gazelle's grace was associated in the Masai mind with God's grace, a profound though punning link, and that by eating of the flesh of the gazelle, the Masai thought to partake of the grace of God. A pagan chinging of the altar bells, a transubstantiation...
...midst of profound changes both in health insurance and in health-care delivery systems. Many of these changes increase health sector competition. Competition has many positive aspects; for example, it increases consumer choice and weeds out the less efficient. It is no wonder that Americans prize competition. But these benefits also involve costs: for example, potential declines in quality and segmentation of the insurance market and delivery system as subscribers try to disassociate themselves from those more likely to be sick...
...late, the descent has become a veritable free fall. I realized this a few months ago when I came across a slogan at once simple and profound, a slogan which defines The Great Ambition of our age. The slogan, the ambition, is, of course, safe...