Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brutal annexation and imperialism on the part of the lamb. . . . The real problem is-Can the lion lie down with the lamb and still retain his royal ferocity? That is the problem the Church attempted; that is the miracle she achieved." In the same manner he explained the profound significance of the story of Fall of Man: "If you wanted to dissuade a man from drinking his tenth whisky, you would slap him on the back and say, 'Be a man.' No one who wished to dissuade a crocodile from eating his tenth explorer would slap...
...foibles and failings of New England in The Late George Apley, Wickford Point and H. M. Pulham, Esquire, herewith tells off Manhattan and its intellectual suburbs, rural Connecticut and Hollywood, in 595 pages. Almost all of them are interesting, a few quite funny, and one or two as profound as Marquand is ever likely to write. The Book-of-the Month Club, which receives three or four puffs in the course of the novel, made So Little Time its September selection...
Trying to pick up the broken threads of his career, Expatriate Stearns wove himself another. He began to re-examine the country he had forsaken. His America: A Reappraisal, which critics found more penitent than profound, was followed by a new symposium America Now, more thoughtful and more hopeful than the indictment of U.S. civilization Stearns had edited in his youth. As a symbol of the "exile" period in American literature, Stearns had only literary interest. But the pattern of denial and affirmation that he wove into his life-the rejection of American values and then a sober re-examination...
Eugenie can be fairly accused of profound "moral complicity," if not worse, in the quick, awful, fumbled war with Prussia which shattered the regime...
...first half of the Sanders Theatre Concert was also under Woodworth's direction. In the Brandenberg Concerto No.3 the orchestra was apparently not quite agreed on the tempo, especially at the beginning of the last movement, but the Prelude to Bach's "Ich Hatte Viel Bekuemmernis" was played with profound emotional depth and understanding of the music...