Word: profoundly
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Other Connolly faults are an occasional forcing of elegance, a weakness for the rare and classy word ("the barathrum of incompetence"), and a neglect which almost seems an aversion for U.S. literature. Connolly's insularity is profound and perhaps defensive. It is, however, an insularity of European rather than British dimensions. One of the curves that could be plotted through his writing culminates in his stated belief that the future cultural relationship between England and France should be "absolute union...
...stopgap legislation raised profound moral questions. Thoughtful citizens, well aware of the crisis, and generally applauding the President, would nevertheless wonder afterwards about the ethics of such atomic legislation...
Most volcanologists think that volcanic and earthquake activity occurs along profound rifts in the earth's subsurface, cracks running down as much as 100 miles or more. At those depths the temperature is high, the pressure strong and steady, and earth material a homogeneous magma of plastic rock. This pressure and material are the source and force of a volcano...
Carpenters and workmen moved into the Yard last week, shoved pigeons and students off the steps of Memorial Church, and started building. Said the boss of the gang in profound prognostication, "General Douglas MacArthur will tread these boards come June 6 when Commencement rolls around...
...return of unemployment as a cure for the contagion of absenteeism (sometimes 40 percent) which broke out whenever big sports events nearby attracted his work-weary miners; the farmer (of military age) hopefully sowing his field on which a tank rusted, near Saint-Lô, Normandy (see cut); the profound, silent distrust of eleven-year-old Filomena Carciopoli, of Puzzuoli, Italy, who sullenly concealed her starving seven-month-old sister under a bed so they could not take the baby to a hospital...