Word: profound
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...though his years of whittling movie scripts have resulted in chapters that seem spindly next to those in the full-bodied Godfather. In fact, the novel could be cut down and inserted in the earlier book. Offstage, at Mafia Central on Long Island, Don Corleone directs events that have profound effects in Sicily and teach Son Michael a cruel lesson in survival...
...quality of an average Broadway chanteuse, not a bad lower bound considering the exhaustion she must suffer from doing eleven songs in a row. Burke's embodiment of the Woman is occasionally too cocky: she substitutes flip musical-theater poses in scenes which call for something more profound. Due in part to her makeup and in part to her acting. She never quites manages to lose the wild-eyed look of a love-crazed. Amazon that suits the beginning but not the end of the play...
...shutout. Walter Mondale did exhibit pockets of strength in the older, industrial cities, and he won among blacks, Jews and people earning less than $10,000 a year. But the true importance of the 1984 election was not simply Ronald Reagan's overwhelming electoral total. It was the profound demographic shifts that helped account for his landslide. An analysis of the President's virtually unprecedented avalanche of support shows that he swept not only every region of the country but every age group and almost every demographic voting bloc. Reagan captured most new voters as well as those...
Much will depend on how Ronald Reagan interprets the vote. Landslides give Presidents enormous authority, but they can lead either to disasters, as did the landslides of Herbert Hoover, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, or to profound redefinitions of American life, as Franklin Roosevelt engineered. Of course, squeakers too can change American life, as Lincoln and Kennedy proved. What is critical in both landslides and squeakers is the ability of a President to read the tides, the yearnings that went into his victory, to distinguish between his own campaign rhetoric and the reality he must force his people to face...
Like many aging Wunderkinder who never quite live up to early hopes for them, Percy seemed portentous more than profound. Although he enjoyed the limelight as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, he was not much of a legislative craftsman. His fuzzy ideology finally left him without a political base. In the past, Percy had been attacked mainly from the right; this time, facing a strong liberal, he pitched himself as a Reaganite. Not only did he lose the votes of once sympathetic blacks and liberals, but New Right groups worked against his re-election out of spite for past...