At the end of a funny, moving and profound speech there is a standing ovation.
The Kapoor is neither moving nor profound, though his best works are often mysterious.
"It was simply the most inventive, expressive, weird, wonderful, moving, and profound film of 2014".
Jim Murphy's speech was even better, because he said all the expected thank-yous but was also moving and profound.
"Every time I revisit The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, it seems to have become more resonant, more moving, more profound," Scorsese said.
Yet something moving and profound has developed in a marriage which salvages Wade while often testing his wife in unimaginable ways.
Janet Malcolm takes a form I usually dislike - the mixture of travel book, biography and autobiography in search of an author - and makes it moving and profound.
That is not to diminish Asleep: it is a moving and profound piece of work – the emotions of teenagers are no less real or significant for being those of teenagers.
But watching the movie again, on the new disk, I was struck by the weird, moving, and profound integration of the two plots and the centrality of what May is getting at with both of them.
(Even if you've heard it only once, I guarantee that the vocalists's gnomic words will stick in your brain; for some reason, the phrase I can never get out of my head is "the name of Mayakovsky hangs in the clean air", as well as the Beckettian "keep going, going on …") It's vertiginous, witty, moving, and profound.
