But they're mistaking their own confusion for profound insight.
Left in Dark Times is a book of profound insights, even if it is sometimes tough going for the American reader not always so attuned to the tussles of European politics.
That bar chart seemed full of profound insights into my wellbeing.
Although he may have flashed his toothy smile a little too often and unctuously praised his interviewers for their profound insights, his assertive optimism was welcomed by television outlets eager to expound on the new tech economy.
Look at the book again: if it weren't for the profound insights yielded up by Tolstoy's exquisitely nuanced and contemplative yet precisely descriptive prose (which I've read only in translation), it wouldn't be much, mainly an adultery plot of the kind that has been fuelling movies, great and otherwise, from the start.
Spatio-temporal analyses of soil properties are important for more profound insights into soil processes.
In its press release, Templeton lauded him for his "profound insights on the cosmos [which] have provoked vital questions that speak to humanity's highest hopes and worst fears".
This week's Newsmakers are Caltech neuroscientist Christof Koch, who is moving to Seattle to become chief scientific officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, and astrophysicist Martin Rees, who has been awarded the Templeton Foundation's annual prize for his "profound insights on the cosmos [that] have provoked vital questions that speak to humanity's highest hopes and worst fears".
Nothing quite equals Bartlett's opener, My Beloved Is Mine (pictured below left), in which a gay couple's morning routine of breakfast before leaving for work offers profound insights into the bonds between sex and spirit.
And while "A Moon for the Misbegotten" surely stands on its own as a play of profound insight and humanity, its link to "Long Day's Journey" enriches it and helps explain Jim's ultimate disintegration.
It's a moment of profound insight and typically Murdochian bathos.
