Some praised it and deemed it a spectacle, while others believed it lacked profundity and portrayal of Cyrus' personality.
And, without spoiling the moment of the assassination, Spielberg's approach to it — and to all that is crystallized in it — is profoundly revealing in its lack of profundity.
The works of Jane Austen concern themselves almost exclusively with the social surface of a fairly narrow world, and yet she has never been accused of a lack of profundity.
And, without spoiling the moment of the assassination, Spielberg's approach to it and to all that is crystallized in it is profoundly revealing in its lack of profundity.
Perhaps the slow movement did not plumb all the emotional depths some older conductors lay bare in the Tenth, but any lack of profundity was more than compensated for by the tension and drama generated elsewhere by the huge orchestra - woodwinds and utterly secure brass in fives and sixes, and battalions of perfectly disciplined strings.
Britten's extraordinary facility as a composer was, early on, felt to be akin to heartlessness or lack of profundity, and his homosexuality and his conscientious objector status in the second world war, after his return from America in 1942, only added to the mainstream suspicion that he was a rum cove, not to be trusted, outside the emotional or social mainstream.
Most problematically, the psychological climax of the story lacks the profundity that would justify its excesses.
Still, though his music generally lacks the profundity of Beethoven's or Schubert's, it is dazzling, harmonically innovative, poetic and exciting.
Marlin Levison of The Star Tribune believed the concert lacked much profundity until the last performance.
They are screamingly, if not jarringly, colourful but lack delicacy or profundity.
