Word: profounder
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...around a long oval table, with a chandelier listing overhead and helicopters whirring periodically, ominously, offstage. After heated debates on everything from Palestinian violence to vegan diets, there's a surprise guest and an apocalyptic climax that sends us out of the theater with a sense that something profound has just transpired...
...winners, and Foe (1986), the story of an Englishwoman who, stranded on a desert island, struggles to communicate with a black slave whose tongue has been cut out. On its face, the novel is a retelling of the Robinson Crusoe fable, but in its depths it is the most profound book ever written about race relations in a society where whites were often separated from black Africans by an abyss of linguistic and cultural incomprehension. "Is this not what you are saying?" I asked at our interview. The pen scratched, the writer cogitated. "I would not wish to deny...
...Harold controversy illustrates just how much Miss America is the site of profound disagreements about the nation’s cultural and political direction. Harold herself, who plans to focus on public interest law at Harvard, says that introducing platforms means that politicization is inevitable...
...party or the Islamist movement to support the insurgency. And those concerns are likely to be exacerbated by this week's decision by Bremer and the Iraqi Governing Council to privatize all of Iraq's economy except for the oil industry - the idea that decisions that will have a profound impact on Iraq's future are being taken by an occupation authority and a body of Iraqis of its own choosing will further alarm many UN member states...
...have the extraordinary life of such an accomplished and refined man so brutally snuffed out is a devastating loss. In his career, Vieira de Mello exemplified all the qualities we value most: selflessness, devotion, candor, leadership, compassion and integrity. He inspired trust and stood for the individual making a profound difference. The displaced, war-torn, oppressed and afflicted peoples of the world have lost an eloquent champion. Inga Walton Melbourne...