Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be romantic," Oberman remarked, "to believe that a break so profound as that caused by the Reformation, with a history of 400 years, will be healed in a short time. But for a long time we have been fighting phantoms on this issue we can try to break through the phantoms and deal with the real theological points that divide...
...these are trifles; in its own terms Cavalier and Yankee is a resounding success, both profound and sensitive. And in his Epilogue, Taylor makes what is perhaps the basic point about the "Southern mentality," when he writes: "If there was a line (between 'North' and 'South'), and increasingly Americans agreed that there was, it possessed no geographical definition. It was a psychological, not a physical division, which often cut like a cleaver through the mentality of individual men and women everywhere in the country...
...speeches Kennedy pounded away at international, national, state and local issues. He favored a jet airport for Worcester, pollution control on the Merrimack River, a federal highway in the Berkshires. His message was deadly serious, if not profound. "I think we can get new industries for Massachusetts. I have promised to go out and visit the major corporations of the country, and tell them the advantages of Massachusetts. I have a particular interest in the education of the young people, especially school dropouts, because I think this is one of our great natural concerns. I feel as we move through...
...INSIGHT: The insight may not be intellectually profound; its power is is strong relevance to the boys' emotional experiences...
Locked into his peculiarly American narrative style (it might well be called "feces on the barroom floor realism"), Jones ends by piling grisly detail upon grisly detail without being wise or eloquent enough to give the accumulation shape or meaning. He exposes nothing even vaguely profound about the company's inner experience, and most of the time seems hardly more articulate about emotions than the poor numbed soldiers whose traumatic anguish he once shared...