Various major body changes may precede the emission of gametes, the two most profound being epitoky (maturation into a modified, fertile form) and stolonization (the development of stemlike growths).
Non-fiction writers have many advantages over fiction writers: the most profound being, as Richard Holmes said when he was writing his biography of the poet Shelley, "At least I always have the man".
But too much of her writing is overwrought, and eventually an uneasy question arises in the mind of the reader: Is something profound being conveyed here or is this an extended, citation-rich blurring of something inherently clear — i.e., humans mess things up and it's sad and I wish we could do something to change all that?
"I watched her change into one of the most perceptive, thoughtful, helpful and profound human beings that I have ever known, either inside or outside of a prison," Lord wrote the governor.
As a good human being, you have a way of being profound without being preachy.
More than a decade ago, I had an experience of inner quiet and profound well-being that was quite disconcerting, absolutely wonderful, and lasted fairly continually for nearly six weeks.
Who doesn't love the notion that there existed an author so free that he was able to summon up men and women who trail a sense of mystery as profound as human beings do in reality?
Compassionate silence can be experience as a profound kind of "being with" and "standing with" in a difficult moment.
But just as the Four Quartets attempt to say something profound about our being-in-the-world in the Einsteinian era, so Tallack gropes towards comprehending his own homing instinct.
The Arctic is undergoing a profound change, its "being fundamentally transformed through the acidification of the oceans, massive disruption to the ecosystem which affects the lives of people living there," says Michael Byers.
