Of course, we cannot, which is why we need a profound re-imagination of many iconic notions embedded in 20th century institutions: retirement at 65? Education finishing at 18 or 21? Healthcare targeting disease as opposed to wellness and functional ability as we age?
To dismiss him as "too street" is to have a profound lack of imagination and respect of his skill as a performer. .
To imply that Bank of America and the US government are in the habit of practicing those qualities would require a profound leap of imagination.
Set in a remote town in Connemara, County Galway — McDonagh was familiar with western Ireland from childhood visits to his grandparents — "The Beauty Queen of Leenane" is a profound work of the imagination about the imagination.
To grow into adulthood aware that someone, somewhere, can destroy the world with a nuclear bomb, does tend to have a profound effect on the imagination.
If nothing else, this particular tour was a profound exercise in the imagination.
Call me a skeptic, but my sense is that those painted concrete barriers in the Kuwaiti desert will one day serve as so many American ziggurats, monuments to a profound failure of the imagination.
The attacks were abhorrent and criminal, but our response so far represents a profound failure of the political imagination.
Together with some essential volumes of poetry (see Nos 4, 11 and 17), this extraordinary drama would not only exert a profound influence on the postwar imagination, it would provide a metaphor for existence.
That much was clear last weekend when, in a sign of a profound lack of consensus or imagination, a deeply divided Parliament elected Mr. Napolitano, 87, to a second term as president — after failing to settle on a new face for the first time in Italy's postwar republic.
