And yet the profusion of pieces (music, text, movement) lent a certain wearying sameness to the pacing.
But the long roll call of unfamiliar savants, presented in lightning-quick sketches, and the profusion of obscure Arabic texts make the historical section of "Dangerous Knowledge" occasionally tough going for anyone not familiar with the field.
The left-hand pages all bear illustrations -- dazzling reproductions of Vermeers and Van Goghs, photographs of Kafka, Talmudic texts -- that preside over the profusion of stories, judgments and opinions on the facing pages.
Across the texts of Hinduism, there is a profusion of ideas about the virtue of Ahimsa when applied to non-human life, but without a universal consensus.
Mrs. Carlson's A.P. class in Worcester, Mass., now confronts a book with 56 chapters and 1,400 pages, along with a profusion of animated videos and Web-based aids that supplement the text.
Like their Mennonite neighbors, the Schwenkfelders framed the texts of their documents, written in German or English, with a profusion of angels, birds, leaves and flowers.
(The profusion of special characters in the dictionary made it impossible to scan using optical-character recognition). The text was then tagged using SGML, a markup language designed to encode and organize large documents.
There is a profusion of marble.
Hence our profusion of improbable excitements.
To visitors who know nothing of the Jain faith and cannot decipher the texts that often form an integral part of the images, the manuscripts are likely to prove fascinating, nonetheless, because of their profusion of detailed incident.
Every major work drew a profusion of takers.
