Sentence examples for profound essay from inspiring English sources
He got at least one thing out of it, a profound essay in The New Yorker called "Farther Away," the winner of another of this year's Sidney Awards.
As Anthony Hecht points out in the most profound essay on "Merchant" (in "Obbligati"), modern actors omit (as Olivier did) or play down the most naked expression of hate in the drama, Shylock's "I hate him for he is a Christian" — a line not quoted by Yoshino.
Grove wrote a profound essay lamenting the loss of American manufacturing jobs.
Thoreau's book "Walden" contemplated the deep virtues of living in simplicity; his profound essay "Civil Disobedience" championed moral opposition to unjust governments.
Havel became an advocate of nonviolence (and lifelong fan of rock music), writing a profound essay, "The Power of the Powerless," which played a major role in catalyzing a nonviolent moral revolution, largely invisible to the West, that reached beyond Czechoslovakia to inspire leaders of the Solidarity movement in Poland, and many in Russia.
A recently published book, "Liberalism Reconsidered", contains a number of profound essays.
("The Gold Bug Variations," in particular, contains several profound essays on Bach).
In his current compilation of a lifetime's profound essays and speeches, Garner wades into language and legal controversy and often lets his hair down.
In those moments, I feel most proud; not on the days when I had five hours and I wrote a profound 2,000-word 2,000-word
In Six Walks in the Fictional Woods, the playful and profound series of essays on writing by Umberto Eco, he likens the act of reading to playing a game: "a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that have happened, are happening or will happen in the world".
In December the New York Times Magazine published an essay called "The Profound Emptiness of 'Resilience.' " It pointed out that the word is now used everywhere, often in ways that drain it of meaning and link it to vague concepts like "character".
