Like Richler and dozens of other young people of my generation, I left a conservative Quebec in 1954 to study in Europe, where we discovered a multiplicity of cultures, a profusion of languages and intellectual freedom.
The greater the profusion of languages, the tougher the first type of communication is.
It was a profusion of words to be sure.
While Seuss's first Beginner Books introduce kids to reading by using a controlled vocabulary, his full-size books like "If I Ran the Circus" and "Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book" initiated younger children into the pleasures of language with a profusion of made-up words.
On talk radio, angry callers claimed that the marchers were "anti-American," citing the profusion of foreign flags and Spanish-language placards.
If, as most believe, Phèdre (first performed and published 1677; originally Phèdre et Hippolyte) is Racine's supreme accomplishment, that status is due to the rigour and simplicity of its organization, the emotional power of its language, and the profusion of its images and meanings.
That bulging sentence contains many of Lobo Antunes's distinctive qualities: the profusion of detail that delights in mess; the word games that flirt with the nullity of language; the professional acumen that diagnoses the king's disease and finds a poetic simile to catch the precise odor of his sickly breath.
The full flowering of the Renaissance style in Italy and the intense interest in Classical art that it stimulated resulted, about 1500, in a profusion of ornamental details, borrowed from the formal language of Classical art, in contemporary window designs.
A profusion of names have attached themselves in the English language, either to the genus as a whole or to individual species or groups of species such as sections.
Indeed, some linguists argue that our obsession with the odd profusion of English misses what is really distinctive about the language: its grammar.
