Word: profound
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...That last feeling can be the real problem. Where there's marginalization, there's a profound sense of powerlessness, and powerless people tend to hit back. More worryingly, it doesn't take grave abuses like molestation to leave people feeling so minimized. Parental or spousal indifference or dismissal - or at least the belief that it exists - can have a similar effect. If the world outside the home seems to be conspiring in the mistreatment, the sense of invalidation grows worse still. It may be true that none of us suffer a lost job, a busted romance or a failed exam...
...bittersweet and wryly comical vignette of life on the other side of the tracks. There is a good deal of stereotyping and caricature in the script—complete with rappers, drug dealers, and prostitutes. But considering the BlackCAST actors’ abilities to employ those caricatures to profound dramatic effect, that exaggeration of character was not a bad thing...
...know Kevin Costner had a band? Probably not. That's why Costner is suing his music promoter for, well, nonpromotion. "The lawsuit should have profound implications ... leaving promoters leery of ever taking on another [celebrity band]," notes blogsite DEFAMER, "lest Richard Gere and the Dolly Llamas sue them." SCORE...
...Obasanjo has given the country some stability, pushing through profound economic reforms, achieving an $18 billion debt cancellation deal and taking on some of Nigeria's most corrupt politicians. More than $380 billion has been stolen by Nigeria's rulers over the past five decades according to the government. One military ruler alone stole some $6 billion. Obasanjo set up the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (efcc), which says it has recovered $5 billion of stolen assets, going after ministers and governors, and even prosecuting the chief of police, who served six months in jail...
...field and were colleagues with Peter Jennings. The three shared a desire to create films that reached beyond the constraints of broadcast journalism.“All of us having served in war zones in general, there was a way that, firsthand, those sort of experiences are actually more profound than politics,” Robbins says.The cinematic re-creations of the featured writings do not simply show stoic-faced soldiers reading letters home. Instead, the writings vary from poetry and fiction to memoirs and essays, with the accompanying visuals stylized to match the tone and form of the writer...