You may have noticed a profusion of one-person indie-rock bands lately, the inevitable result of the decline of record-label tour support and the rise in the international price of rice.
Amid the profusion of titles, one hierarchy has remained, over centuries, steadfastly simple, that of the Roman Catholic Church: priest and bishop, under the sovereignty of the pope.
On the street level he has a bedroom and a large living room with a piano and a profusion of bookcases, one of them reserved for first editions (he has close to two hundred) of works by Henry James.
The polls had barely closed when the first "YES WE DID" buttons hit the streets, and since then there has been a profusion of pins — one shows the Obamas with their daughters under the words "AMERICA'S FIRST FAMILY" — that likewise seem designed to reassure their wearers that, yes, Obama's victory really happened and, yes, his Presidency is really going to happen, too.
Mr. Fry revels in the chaos of the plot, and the profusion of arch one-liners and zany set pieces gives the picture a hectic, slightly out-of-control feel.
The wildly creative creolization of African-American and European-American strains produced a profusion of mulatto musics — one thinks of Ellington and Gershwin, Joplin and Stravinsky, Miles Davis and Gil Evans, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Springsteen — that spread their dominion across the whole world.
In the spring the old-growth forest, one of China's last bits of raw nature, twinkles with the pink rhododendrons that grow in astounding profusion -- one of many reasons why biologists call the area a "hot spot" of biodiversity.
They're the same thing, really, because of their grim profusion of corpses that no one remembers.
Disappointingly, while there is a Hydrangea Corner and a Rose Walk, the English garden lacked the profusion of flowers and topiary one expects from an Eden modeled after the Hidcote Manor garden in England.
Chicago's theatre may be better than any other in America: the Steppenwolf and Lookingglass companies regularly carry off prizes, and a profusion of fringe, garage and one-room theatres flourish alongside bigger establishments.
Emma, our Mongolian guide, is a resident in one of a profusion of apartments houses in this city of over one million.
