A profound examination of the historical reasons behind past choices is also indispensable.

A story is a moment of profound examination of things in greater reality and sharper focus than we usually see them.

But it is the book's subtle and profound examination of its central themes that really makes it shine.

Some of the procedures of discourse analysis will make for a more profound examination of this process.

The bishops write that their effort to respond to concerns voiced by Catholic women "has led us collectively to a profound examination of conscience."

Addressing the Pope, he acknowledged the order's "limits and our failures," and said the congregation would "subject them to a profound examination of conscience."

The first two drafts called for "a profound examination of conscience" and acknowledged failures of theologians, priests and church officials to treat women as equals.

In London, Nina Caplan in Time Out described the musical as "more welcome than any profound examination of these putrid times"

Chapter 35, "A profound examination of names and appellations" takes up the subject at length, including a concerted attack on Mencius for stating that the xing, "natural tendency," is intrinsically good.

Chapter 5 of the second volume is especially interesting to English thinkers as it contains a profound examination of the Induction theories of Francis Bacon, John Stuart Mill and David Hume.

This really does call for a profound examination of our consciences - I venture to use this word since you used the word 'ethical' , and I am grateful for it - which must be a challenge to us all.

A more profound examination of Chaucer's principles of composition, however, reveals that the essential scheme of the Wife of Bath's Prologue (specifically, lines 193-828) conforms to the doctrine promulgated by Geoffrey of Vinsauf's Documentum.

Although I have so far been concentrating on Thomist interpretations of existence, there have been equally profound examinations in Buddhist and Moslem tradition, and in the modern day by existentialist writers, some of whom are religious and some of whom are not.

While gray runs as a consistent thread through the work, the exhibition will look at how the motivations for its use have changed since the mid-1950s "from a statement of skepticism, quietude or anticipation" to "an agent in a profound examination of the very meaning of color itself," the announcement said.

The first draft of a pastoral letter released by the U.S. Catholic Bishops last month, "Partners in the Mystery of Redemption: A Pastoral Response to Women's Concerns," admits that women have, in the bishops' words: "Led us collectively to a profound examination of conscience.

The intense, nearly exclusive focus on his probity has personified the debate over Mr. Meese's fitness for office, displacing what might otherwise have been a more searching and profound examination: a public debate not over Edwin Meese the man, but over what he stood for and the agenda he tried to implement.