Francisco Gómez de Quevedo's La vida del buscón (1626; "The Life of a Scoundrel") is a masterpiece of the genre, in which the profound psychological depiction of a petty thief and swindler is underlain by a deep concern for moral values.
Heidi Thomas described the Call The Midwife book as "a very profound social document, a depiction of a world with which we can all identify, but which has vanished from our view".
Masaccio's figures of Adam and Eve being expelled from the Garden of Eden had a profound effect on the depiction of the nude in general, and in particular on the use of the nude figure to convey human emotion.
If this is so, then Pope Francis has an ally in Leo Steinberg, the displaced Russian Jew whose modernist, heretical instincts led him to the grave, beautiful, profound, and, at times, playful depiction of Christ's sexuality.
The classic movie Forrest Gump (1994), directed by Robert Zemeckis, has been described by some as a profound social commentary and a historical depiction of southern culture, and by others as a model of man's resiliency.
Siddons was especially praised for moving audiences in the sleepwalking scene with her depiction of a soul in profound torment.
Mr. Harrison's depiction of the trivial and the profound unhappinesses that can bring even young, accomplished New Yorkers to the brink of breakdown is sharply drawn and funny.
But Madonna fans fawning over this naked depiction of their queen got a surprisingly profound B-plot surrounding the singer's backup dancers, a cabal of mostly gay young men representing queer culture at a time when mainstream visibility was almost nonexistent.
A stark depiction of grief in a form so pure and profound that it seems to sear the flesh, this haunting play stands apart from the rest of Synge's work, along with "Deirdre of the Sorrows," which is performed last, for its absence of humor.
His book joins an extraordinary depth of research and a profound understanding of the inner life of the music with a vivid depiction of life in Kansas City in the nineteen-thirties).
