They can walk to Uncle Giuseppe's, their favorite Italian grocery store, and don't mind the profusion of strip malls.
Surely liberals can do better than this.Does the profusion of mindlessly partisan books matter?
Do you ever look at the profusion of mediocre travel memoirs and think, What have I done?
What rental service do you go to?" While the profusion of flags quickly became a national joke, it was only the most obvious illustration of the extraordinary degree to which the candidates, as Mr. Costello put it, have been "caught in a sort of prop hell" since Election Day.
"The Artist" doesn't have the awesome density, the profusion of life (usually created, on a colossal scale and in meticulous detail, in a studio) of the silent classics, and it doesn't exhibit much depth or variety of visual invention.
Kael, in her review, couldn't reconcile Cimino's style (which she admired) and the substance of the film, which she more or less didn't acknowledge precisely because of the profusion of style.
The pig dies, nothing can be done about it, and it is the profusion of detail — his feeling the ears of the ailing pig "as you might put your hand on the forehead of a child," and the "beautiful hole, five feet long, three feet wide, three feet deep" that is dug for the pig among alders and young hackmatacks, at the foot of an apple tree — that makes its death unsentimental and hard to bear.
The pig dies, nothing can be done about it, and it is the profusion of detail his feeling the ears of the ailing pig "as you might put your hand on the forehead of a child," and the "beautiful hole, five feet long, three feet wide, three feet deep" that is dug for the pig among alders and young hackmatacks, at the foot of an apple tree that makes its death unsentimental and hard to bear.
By so doing, he gives us an idea of the profusion of commentaries that were written on the Categories.
"I think people will ask, 'Why did you do so many different things?' " he said as he gazed at the profusion of objects.
