Word: profound
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...then so much of what happened on Saturday, and during the six days of mourning that led up to it, seemed unprecedented. At one point British Prime Minister Tony Blair said, "It is something more profound than anything I can remember in the totality of my life." Many people might disagree with that sentiment, but few could doubt that something remarkable was going...
...page is covered with odd figures by himself and pupils: a giraffe, a crab, a grasshopper, a skull. As the show travels through the artist's long life, the drawings, always impressive for their sheer brilliance, become increasingly personal: less part of a process and more meditations on profound themes. Studies for a Deposition, ca. 1523 shows the disposal of Christ's body as a laborious, undignified business. In The Lamentation, 1530-35, Christ's mother is seated on the ground, her son lying on her knees. A woman leans her head on Mary's shoulder-her face ugly with...
...decide not to have any. There is the feeling that you are not an adult. The French are reacting to this, and we don't. What's happening there is a normal reaction. Here, something is wrong. There's no movement coming up from below. There is a profound lack of faith in everything. We are almost just resigned, which is a terrible thing for an entire generation under 30. Rashid Ech Chetouani 27, lives in the Paris suburb Asnières; started a business importing memory sticks from Guangzhou, China Most of these demonstrating students will have no problem...
...Universities have a discretionary power to accept applicants without entry scores, so homeschooling isn't necessarily an impediment to tertiary study. Indeed, a high proportion of the homeschooled just keep on studying, often well into their 20s. Why? Perhaps their childhood experience fires a profound love of learning. Or does their sheltered upbringing cause them to delay the leap into a scary world? The most persistent objection to home education is that it denies its charges the socializing experience of school. "Living in the community, being with other children . . . these are vital parts of a normal life for a child...
...each freshman. He'd come in and talk to you and invite you to a Bible study and show you a James Dobson video called, "Where's Daddy?" And every bad thing that he was talking about was me. And it really got my attention and it had a profound impact on me, made me really look at who I was and what I was doing. I started going to that Bible study. That's when I came back to Christ, and have been with him ever since. That was 22 years ago. And I've been maturing ever since...