Yet Mr. Obama chose Mr. Biden not for his verbal facility, but for his experience and what David Axelrod, the president's strategist, calls "profound common sense".
He says, 'I was beaten,' not 'My men were beaten.'" -ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPRY To lead them, but not to master them This is called profound and secret virtue.
This knowledge in general has been referred to as "mathematical knowledge for teaching" or MKT (Ball et al. 2005; Ball et al. 2008; Hill and Ball 2004); the expert version of MKT was called "Profound Understanding of Fundamental Mathematics" (PUFM) by Ma (2010).
Last year, a group of lawyers even sent a letter to Ron Kirk, the US Trade Representative, to express what they called "profound concern and disappointment at the lack of public participation, transparency and open government processes in the negotiation of the intellectual property chapter of the TPP".
She keeps two diaries, one called "Journal of the Movement of the World" to record her observations of the world around her, and the other called "Profound Thoughts" to record her many and wide-ranging reflections on art, poetry, people and herself.
Those 224 people listen to you, and they call you "profound".
But Connie bears a gift: a gift certificate from something called CRS, short for Consumer Recreation Service, which he calls "a profound life experience" and "the best thing that ever happened to me".
One of the country's foremost wits is an anonymous character on Twitter called Majorly Profound.
Both are needed, but in either case the durability of poverty calls for profound long-term investments.
Secretary General Kofi Annan gave a courageous speech on March 21, acknowledging valid criticisms of the United Nations and calling for profound changes.
