Word: profound
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...responded to the threat and found that among happily married women, hypothalamus activity declined sharply if husbands held their wives' hands during the experiment. Women who reported being less satisfied with their marriage--and women whose hands were held by strangers--got little such relief. "The effect was pretty profound," says Coan. "It was much stronger than we thought it would...
...tracks down eye witnesses, cross-checks their stories, and hunts for graves and bullet shells. The resulting voices of hundreds of witnesses provide a window into how a well-organized genocide could occur in these Ukrainian communities with no one choosing, or able, to stop it. That provokes profound questions about culpability and powerlessness, and the possibility of future genocides, which resonate far beyond 1940s Europe, say researchers like Shapiro. Explaining why it has taken so long to uncover such testimony, Shapiro says: "Frankly, no one ever went there before...
...four years at Harvard a fulfilling, rich, and productive experience. After all, we hold out the idealistic hope that students will use their undergraduate education to explore new things, to discover their passions, so that they can understand themselves, their world, and their relationship with that world in more profound ways. We want students to discover new passions because doing so is an enriching experience that we return to throughout our lives—whether for solace, intellectual satisfaction, future guidance, or merely to inspire more interesting dinner party conversations...
Still, what thieves gain from stealing art is outweighed by what their victims lose. Art historian Noah Charney observes, "There are very few stealable objects that have the same relationship as do artworks and the people who collect them." With religious art, that relationship is intensified, thanks to the profound spiritual connection that many worshippers have to the work. It's this connection that makes churches such easy targets in the first place. After all, churches exist to help worshippers experience their faith more fully, and one way to achieve this is by giving them intimate access to religious paintings...
...deliver change? Who is actually gonna make it change?' You can't argue that you are a master of a broken system in Washington...and that you are also the best agent to change the system. You can't be steeped in the conventional wisdom in something as profound as war and then argue you are best positioned to chart a new course in foreign policy. That's not how change works. You got to be for change before to be for change...