Sentence examples for profoundly French from inspiring English sources

The color sense, and the joie de vivre, seemed profoundly French, the reckless energy American.

Her well-run course will leave you with lots of new seasonal go-to recipes that are simultaneously modern and traditional, but profoundly French.

Bundchen wore a beret, a hat that is both as profoundly French as a string of onions and as totemic of Cuba's revolutionary past as Che himself.

With nothing more than some really good bread and butter and a flinty bottle of Loire Valley white wine, maybe a Montlouis or a Menetou-Salon, this simple meal of ancient pleasures was profoundly French and primally invigorating.

For all his frustrations with France, he views himself as profoundly French — it is a question of language and upbringing, he says — with a responsibility to help the country come to terms with itself and to define a new French identity.

"A profoundly French screwup," is what the business daily Les Echos called it, and indeed the negotiations couldn't have been clumsier.

In "A Revolution in Taste," Susan Pinkard, a historian at Georgetown University, explores the striking technical, material and philosophical shifts that profoundly altered French cooking between the second half of the 17th century and the revolution of 1789.

T. E. Lawrence, famously known as Lawrence of Arabia, recounted his tortuous ties to the Arab uprising against Turkish rule in his celebrated Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Louis Massignon was a great, deeply introspective, and profoundly troubled French Catholic scholar of Islam.

This kind of exquisitely sensitive, profoundly seasonal, fundamentally French cooking helped lift Daniel to several four-star reviews in The New York Times, the most recent one by Frank Bruni in 2009.

Similarly, the public display of a defendant handcuffed — the famous "perp walk" between two policemen on the way to arraignment — which so profoundly shocked the French in the case of DSK, is a common accessory in American justice.

Montreal was not just the financial capital of Canada, it was also the most European of North American cities, half English-speaking but overwhelmingly French, profoundly cultured and unfailingly elegant, where the old stone of the cathedrals met the Bauhaus steel-and-glass towers of Mies van der Rohe's Westmount Square.