Throughout the Victorian and Edwardian ages, the city grew in every direction, recording in its stone tenements and detached mansions every foible of changing taste: Neoclassical, Gothic, Scotch Baronial, Italianate, and a more recent profusion of 20th-century brick and concrete.
Somewhere between the extremes of the Ku Klux Klan and the high school philately society lie a plethora of country clubs, city clubs, athletic clubs, fraternal organizations, service clubs and more -- that vast profusion of associations hailed variously as a defining characteristic of American civic life and as an insidious and divisive force.
It is no secret that America's profusion of more than 200,000 fast-food restaurants has probably gone too far, forcing us to pay a heavy toll for easy access to all that cheap, convenient and tasty food with still-growing rates of obesity and diet-related, life-threatening conditions like diabetes.
Although small in comparison with lycopods, Calamitesis grew in profusion in drier, more upland environments.
At the greengrocer I glimpsed a profusion of citrus more exotic than oranges: pomelos, blood oranges, kumquats.
Sri Lankan cooking is less polished, more wild and rustic: a profusion of densely perfumed curries, shredded salads, herbal broths and countless configurations of rice.
They are, though, harder to find and, it turns out, much more numerous.That you need a profusion of such switches to get the right pattern of genes turned on and off in a given cell at a given time is obvious.
The rocky cliffs of Vava'u continue plunging below the ocean's surface, and they are covered with profusions of coral more diverse and abundant than any other I've seen.
The profusion of fossils (or, more accurately, subfossils; these hadn't turned to stone) gave the project a sense of momentum that almost disguised a hint of disappointment.
While syrah may theoretically be more elegant than petite sirah, the profusion of cheap syrahs in the market, many of them from Australia, gives no indication of the quality these wines can achieve.
