Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scenes that call for dynamic confrontation with Amanda, Hanes is very good, but at other times he is too pompous, too unselfconscious. Lines like "it don't take too much intelligence to get yourself into a nailed-up coffin" and "how lucky dead people are" lack a profound fear and pain that are essential to Tom's nature...
While Carter's steadiness in this crisis is outwardly apparent, what has happened inside him during these past days will have a profound effect on U.S. policy once we emerge from this trauma. Because Jimmy Carter, like all Presidents before him in recent years, has had to come back in the end to rely on plain old American military might. The men like John Foster Dulles, who restructured international relations after World War II, never had any doubts about the use of power, since they had seen how weakness invited aggression and defiance. President Carter...
...remains to be seen whether the new refugees headed for Thai camps are suffering from the profound psychological damage evidenced by the Khmer Rouge and their civilian followers. But for almost all the refugees the future is unrelievedly bleak. The majority have no relatives or other ties abroad, and thus they will find it difficult to emigrate. Many have no skills and no training of any kind...
...pudgy little Italian girl. Mom finds out and for the next two hours Luna repeats a tiresome pattern of hit, scream, claw and shoot-up until the end mercifully arrives. The operatic finale in which all problems find their resolution through song makes the Sound of Music appear profound...
...said last night he had been unaware of the month and day of the founding of the College. Claiming that he had nothing profound to say on the occasion, he added, "There's something about 343 that just doesn't ring my bell...