Word: profound
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...Thomas More scholarship at St. John's law school, he began a lifelong fealty to the ideals embodied by the 16th century English scholar and martyred Chancellor to Henry VIII. In St. Thomas More, Cuomo found a fellow lawyer, a man of great gifts and profound flaws who reminded him of his own imperfections while providing a model of how to live with them. More's famous work Utopia describes an island where both religion and reason work to support ethical norms and the aim of society is to provide in a communal way for all citizens...
Crack is cocaine intensified. Its effects are cocaine's--but amplified, sharper, meaner, uglier. The assault on the body, brain and nervous system occurs in swifter, more profound fashion. "Crack, even more than plain cocaine, puts users at extremely high risk," says Dr. Nicholas Masi of the cocaine addiction treatment center in Plantation...
When I was a "kid," I avowed a profound aversion to wealth. All I wanted, I used to say, was to raise a family in a decent home and be able to spend a few weeks at the beach. That's all I want now, but I find that these modest ends require massive means. It's hard to renounce materialism when materialism is renouncing...
...unformed Keynes was no more at ease with himself than others were. His most serious homosexual attachment, to the painter Duncan Grant, caused him, in the end, profound confusion as well as pain. Furthermore, for all his Cambridge-debater disapproval of Christianity, he was, Skidelsky remarks, "close enough to the 'believing' generation to have a need for 'true beliefs...
Jack Lemmon stars in a profound reconception of Long Day' s Journey into Night. Also on Broadway: George C. Scott and Debbie Allen...