Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Distinctions between the Harvard College program and the University of California at Davis program were discussed in some detail in Bakke. Justice [Harry A.] Blackmun ['29] wrote that, while he saw the advantages of the Harvard program, he was not convinced that the difference between the two was 'very profound or constitutionally significant...
...suddenly, everything has changed. Not only do these still unnamed planets triple the number of worlds known to orbit stars like the sun--the only other example having been found just four months ago--but they have an even more profound significance. Both of them are temperate enough to allow water to exist in liquid form. And whatever else is necessary for life as we know it, say biologists, liquid water is an absolute prerequisite...
...Java is more than a way to spice up the pages of the World Wide Web. The news tickers and dancing cartoons are just the most visible signs of a deeper, more profound change. Although today Java matters only to programmers, it could in the next few years shift the balance of power in the entire computer industry, changing not only the cost and shape of the machines on our desktops but also our very concept of what a computer should...
...killing off Bambi's mom--will win an audience's hot tears and huzzahs. Sentiment, a human feeling or failing, is honorable; the uses to which it is often put are not. But that is for the individual viewer to judge. If a film touches you, you call it profound. If it has everyone around you sobbing while you remain stony, you call it manipulative. Manipulative is just the word we use when we have caught artists at the parlor trick of making...
...should look at ideas with an open mind, testing them not against some standard of ideological purity but against the solid touchstone of our common sense and sensibility. Our ideals must reflect the shared values in the hearts of most Americans. To my mind, these principles are simple yet profound: try to figure out what's best for our kids; clean up after ourselves; have faith in the power that comes from free markets and free minds; realize that individual opportunity and neighborly compassion can go hand in hand; and always be willing to ask the question, "Yes, but does...