One suspects hyperbole here, for Porter's attachment to real things in art was philosophically profound: subjects and themes were not chosen merely as vehicles for formal exploration but had personal associations, as Justin Spring, also the author of books on Wolf Kahn and Jackson Pollock, frequently shows in detail.
Essay collections are having a bit of a moment these days, and Robinson is a master of the form, turning her keen mind to such sweeping and profound subjects as what it means to be human, the nature of grace, and Christian theology.
How ironic that the most sexually reticent lady of the three should write not only the best book, but the one that dares to explore most deeply the profound subject of amorphous gender.
In South Africa at the end of his travels, Naipaul returns to his oldest and most profound subject: the nature of power explored through the corruptions of history and race.
The vestiges of wondering who might want to read what I write, how I could possibly do my vast and profound subject justice, and who am I to write a book anyway, are still felt.
The impact of such factors is profound subjecting them to emotional distress, interference with their employment, or use tension-lessoning, oblivion-producing substances such as alcohol [ 9].
Of the five OPA1 patients who had electrically-evoked ABRs, the subject with profound deafness (Subject 7) also showed neural potentials (electrically-evoked compound action potentials) and both waves II and V in ABR recordings in response to electrical stimulation consistent with cochlear deafness.
The question of promoter specificity of AF-4 family members is a profound issue that is the subject of active investigation in multiple laboratories.
Over the years, no matter how profound the subject was, truthfully, it almost didn't matter what she sang about (did anyone really want details on "Sweet Dreams" or "Here Comes The Rain Again"?).
Anyway, how can you help liking someone who can be so profoundly superficial (always preferable to superficially profound) on subjects like face-lifts and the religious right?
You may, then, excuse me if this time I — as a refreshing change of pace — don't write about the most profound current subjects facing our world today.
