Word: profounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only Voysey and Donnelly could bring themselves to move beyond the wry witticisms, the characteristic one-liners and the political thunderings of Shaw more than, they could conspire to transform My Astonishing Self into something more profound than a parroting of Shaw...
Chiapas, says a diplomat in the capital, "has forced the government to be more responsive and has had a profound effect on the 1994 electoral year." Salinas introduced a package of reforms that would reduce government control of election funding and press coverage and provide for foreign observers. Opposition critics argue that the measures, passed by the legislature last Thursday, still do not curb P.R.I. influence at the local level...
...Kathleen Battle affair, the Metropolitan Opera put an enthralling tempest where it belongs -- before an audience. The occasion was a spectacular new production of Giuseppe Verdi's masterpiece Otello, in which astute direction, dazzling conducting and a first-rate cast led by Placido Domingo all combined to create a profound operatic experience...
...consequences of the Spanish invasion were of course profound and enduring. We can read about one of them in any recent newspaper: the peasants of Mexico's Chiapas province are rebelling against a landholding scheme that has remained essentially unchanged since it was imposed by the Spanish four bitter centuries...
...comic argument over whether to let their prisoner, an army deserter, escape. The quarrel leads to one of them killing the other and then committing suicide. It climaxes with a priest -- a worldly and genial man -- hanging himself in his church. He has fallen into despair after too profound an exposure to the antireligious writings of the poet-philosopher Miguel de Unamuno...