Word: profound
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Throughout this book, Brady traces the maturation of a man who always hungered for things that were only partially available to him. The two most profound influences were his relationships with his natural father Lord Auchinleck and with his adopted father Samuel Johnson. Lord Auchinleck was "upright, hardworking, shrewd, practical and totally unimaginative." To take a ridiculous modern example, his relationship with James was akin to that of Oliver Barrett III and his conservative, wealthy father in Eric Segal's Love Story. Boswell felt the same mixture of perverse joy in defying Lord Auchinleck that Oliver feels in resisting...
...assurance that we are not only bereaved but we have no intention or design to make your role as Prime Minister difficult. We want peace. Here and now I assure you that Pakistan's hand is open and offered in friendship and good will." Rajiv replied, "Mr. President, my profound thanks, and my genuine heartfelt assurances that India wishes to resume talks with your country for a solid, lasting, peaceful relationship between our two countries, which share so much in common." Later they agreed that Zia should make a brief trip to New Delhi on the weekend...
...problem of being a woman in what is still a man's world. Every fear they have for Geraldine Ferraro - What if she hesitates? What if she is dismissed as "just like a woman"? -is rooted in their own experience. It is empathy of the most profound sort, a conflicting mixture of pride and self-doubt...
...family was left to the imagination. Now, however, Scholastic has released what is believed to be the first in-depth study of the social impact of home computers. The results suggest that the new machines can change the way a family lives, but that they will not have the profound impact on American life-styles that the automobile and television had in earlier decades. Says Joseph Giacquinta, the New York University professor who headed the investigation...
...than conversations with parents or friends. Many (about 40 percents across the three samples) had become aware of it by the time they were 12. The responses to questions about the effect of the nuclear threat on thinking about the future, on civil defense, and on survival reflected a profound disease and uncertainty about the future and a considerable amount of general pessimism. For example, in the 1980 sample, when the question was asked, 'Will there be a nuclear war?' the majority of respondents thought it was possible, and a substantial minority thought it likely...