Cimino's life work is a cinema of mourning, an art of grief, a nightmare of memory that finds its sole redemption in ecstasy — the heightened perception that transforms experience into a grand internal spectacle, which finds its embodiment in Cimino's own profound visual imagination.
Of course, we cannot, which is why we need a profound re-imagination of many iconic notions embedded in 20th century institutions: retirement at 65? Education finishing at 18 or 21? Healthcare targeting disease as opposed to wellness and functional ability as we age?
To dismiss him as "too street" is to have a profound lack of imagination and respect of his skill as a performer. .
To imply that Bank of America and the US government are in the habit of practicing those qualities would require a profound leap of imagination.
Set in a remote town in Connemara, County Galway — McDonagh was familiar with western Ireland from childhood visits to his grandparents — "The Beauty Queen of Leenane" is a profound work of the imagination about the imagination.
To grow into adulthood aware that someone, somewhere, can destroy the world with a nuclear bomb, does tend to have a profound effect on the imagination.
The crazy illogicality, the vast imagination and profound instinct that render some of his works sublime coexist with some uncomfortable aspects of conservatism.
The relationships that people have with the celebrities who inhabit their imagination express profound longings, and help to fulfil them too.
If nothing else, this particular tour was a profound exercise in the imagination.
How educational games I played on BBC Micros had a more profound effect on my imagination than the books I read in the classroom.
