Word: profound
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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LUCAS: Yes, I find it amusing. I also find it very interesting, especially in terms of the academic world, that they will take a work and dissect it in so many different ways. Some of the ways are very profound, and some are very accurate. A lot of it, though, is just the person using their imagination to put things in there that really weren't there, which I don't mind either. I mean, one of the things I like about Star Wars is that it stimulates the imagination, and that's why I don't have any qualms...
...came to Harvard because my tour-guide had great sunglasses. I suppose I should be embarrassed by such an admission; I would hope to be more analytical, less superficial. Such a profound--some say life-changing--choice could not have been founded upon something as tenuous as appropriate eye wear. Nevertheless, sunglasses lay at the heart of the matter...
...CAME TO HARVARD BECAUSE MY TOUR-guide had great sunglasses. I suppose l should be embarrassed by such an admission; l would hope to be more analytical, less superficial. Such a profound--some say life-changing--choice could not have been founded upon something as tenuous as appropriate eye wear. Nevertheless, sunglasses lay at the heart of the matter...
...make the journey, this Holy City offers reasons for faith. Pilgrims can visit the Basilica of St. John Lateran and climb (on their knees) the "Holy Steps" of Pontius Pilate's palace which Jesus traversed several times on the day he was condemned and crucified. Less dominating, but more profound, in the Church of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem, large pieces of the crosses of both Jesus and one of the thieves crucified with him are displayed in a side chapel, along with two thorns from the crown of thorns that adorned Jesus' head in his final hours...
ADOLF HITLER It would be awful to see his face on TIME's last cover of the millennium, but I must conclude, with the greatest sadness and reluctance, that the person who had the most profound impact on the events of the 20th century was also the century's most evil person: Adolf Hitler. The century was filled with inspirational leaders who advanced its most powerful idea, freedom of the individual--people like the two Roosevelts, Churchill, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. But the poison unleashed by Hitler and his terrible contemporary Joseph Stalin survives. Not only must...