Emily Nussbaum's dismissal of the "shallow deep talk" in True Detective (New Yorker, March) reminded me of something I struggled with as a rock critic at the Chicago Sun Times.
There was Ian, my math teacher in high school, with whom I'd stalk the streets of Greenwich Village after school, engaged in deep talk of existentialist resistance to bourgeois life.
After last Saturday's rehearsal, one of "Showtune's" stars, Martin Vidnovic, whose resplendent baritone is matched by interpretive power that runs deep, talked of the song's emotional heft.
Whoever gets the job will have to help decide whether to pursue the kind of deep tax cuts that Mr. Bush talked about as a candidate.
But I have this idea of inviting them to a deeper talk about it to understand what we are talking about" (physician 6).
In Washington state, where there is talk of deep cuts in financing of higher education, the two highest-paid university presidents announced givebacks last week, as well.
If that seemed slightly out of step in a country in "deep economic crisis," as the daily newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung put it, a time when talk of deep economic reform is in the air, there they were anyway, embodiments of a political fact of life here.
There is talk of deep disagreements between the brothers, the brother-in-law and sister, and between them and their maternal cousins, the Makhloufs – who long have vied with Tunisia's Trabelsi family (now thankfully deposed) for the title of most avaricious and unprincipled monopolising operators.
Finally, if the talk of deep Twitter integration into iOS 5 is to be believed (we heard a bit, others have heard a bit more), it's entirely possible that these new-style Twitter notifications could be working in iOS 5 right out of the box.
Many middle-aged single women can relate to a Cinderfella's desires and his talk of deep emotional and physical connection.
