Word: profound
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...light sparks amid the darkness of public indifference. Grassroots environmental organizations are springing up, and Wen feeds them by allocating grants, typically $5,000-$15,000, provided by a Colorado charity called the Global Greengrants Fund. The sums may be small, but the impact is profound, says Nick Young, chief of the China Development Brief, which monitors mainland NGOs: "In his quiet way, Wen is one of the most important environmentalists in China. He's doing incredibly important long-term work to create a new generation of NGOs...
There is the faith that sees the message of Jesus or Muhammad as a broad indicator of how we should treat others, of what profound holiness requires, and not as an account literally true in all respects that includes an elaborate theology that explains everything. There is the dry Deism of many of America's Founding Fathers. There is the cafeteria Christianity of, say, Thomas Jefferson, who composed a new, shortened gospel that contained only the sayings of Jesus that Jefferson inferred were the real words of the real rabbi. There is the open-minded treatment of Scripture of today...
...Move You Make could be a form of Chinese water torture. As the title character of Mrs Porter and the Rock, about a widowed suburbanite dragged by her son to Uluru, complains: "Nothing had happened." But those who relax into Malouf's dreamy prose, the rewards are pleasurable and profound. In The Valley of Lagoons, we enter the stillness of the Gulf country through the consciousness of a 16-year-old boy to discover "an interweaving of close but distant voices so dense that they become one." The sensual motion of a swimmer is watched so intensely by a woman...
...think that the empowerment issue is as profound as the hope issue,” Ross said. “Folks need to be reminded that when regular people come together, we can make the changes that need to be made...
...impacts you in a way you can't even describe. You're watching this maniac, and he's really insane, but you are so immersed in him that you forget you're watching a movie and you start to feel insane. And then there's the profound embarrassment I felt when he brought the girl to the porno theater, and--Oh no! What is he doing? I was with you! I know you've got problems, but I was with...