Word: profoundly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...dead-level, unvaried by a fresh thought or an individual expression. Almost all the writers use the same common-place vocabulary-a very small one-in the same confused way. One year, after reading 200 or 300 compositions on "The Story of the Tempest," I found myself in such profound ignorance of both plot and characters that I had to read the play to set myself right again...
...question, and said that the classics cannot be today what they have been in the past. He believed in making them elective and allowing them a chance to compete on an equal basis with other studies. The oration was in every way worthy of the orator, and evinced a profound sympathy with the school and its workings...
...subject of temperance, called "The Hercules Brand," which has been most favorably reviewed, and criticised. The following is an extract from one of the papers which reviewed the work: "His powers of description are quite remarkable, his language is well chosen, and his knowledge of human nature is profound. The several characters are delineated clearly, and the moral of the narrative is introduced with marked ability...
...observation of the students leads me to believe that there is among them a devout, earnest, Christian spirit and a good degree of profound religious conviction. They are earnest investigators, and the fraternal feeling is admirable. I believe the school, as a whole, I has never been so ably manned as it is to-day, and that it is doing a good work...
...which is as yet perhaps merely incipient as a national issue, though in some localities, particularly on the Pacific coast, a question of the most lively agitation, is chiefly directed against the power and the privileges of the railroad. In another respect also the railroads are the source of profound public interest. Few matters of legislative action, either in Congress, or in the State assemblies, excite more difficulties or attract more attention than that of the regulation of railroads and the immeasurable matters connected with the railroads. So far is this the case that a very profitable branch...