Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gilbert and Church say that genetic sequencing will have profound implications for all of science...
...rape and two counts of criminal sexual-deviate conduct last week, the verdict packed a wallop. For boxing, it meant that the sport would lose its top attraction for the next few years; a Tyson fight with the current champ, Evander Holyfield, could have grossed $100 million. On more profound and intimate levels, the conviction brought hope of legal redress to sexual victims. Says Lynn Hecht Schafran, a New York City attorney with the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund: "The case provides a basis for people to go to the police. It should also make prosecutors pursue these cases...
...sociopolitical agendas to stand primary in the interpretation of art. Of Renoir, Berger writes, "Feminist reasoning applied retrospectively to Renoir is too easy." Feminists might play up Renoir quotes like "the best exercise for a woman is to kneel down and scrub the floor" without bothering to uncover the profound and across-the-board fearful fanaticism of which that quote is only one facet. Berger effectively warns us not to let our methodologies for "seeing" obstruct our sight...
...describe the stories best as resembling the dreams we dream every night--sometimes incoherent, usually inexplicable and always random. Most importantly, these stories are extremely interesting and incredibly fun to read. These attributes do not insinuate in any way that the pages of this book are profound, but they are so diverse that they surely connect with the reader at some point in the novel...
Yourgrau did not intend to make A man Jumps Out of an Airplane profound or give answers to "modern problems." Instead, the book provides a release from the real world by plunging the reader into a world where anything can--and does--happen...