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In that culture, the word "[expletive]" was not only obscene, it was profane, in the original sense: It took an important idea in vain.
Edokko quarrel in a language all their own, an earthy local dialect as profane and expressive as Brooklynese.
Dramatic arrangements for doing this are famous--the head-flattening, the neck-lengthening, the tooth-filing, the lip-stretching--all the irreversible ways of completing the human body that were called "barbaric" by restless people bent on scientific understanding, political and intellectual enlightenment, or plain old empire, holy and profane.
Miscellany: Rupert Murdoch bought control of Pat Robertson's cable channel--"a merger of the sacred and profane," cracked the New York Times . Alex Kelly , the rich kid who spent eight years resort-hopping in Europe to evade rape charges in the United States, was finally convicted.
“from the profane to the profound divided into 191 categories by more that 300 authors, philosophers and celebrities including Kahlil Gibran, Bertrand Russell, Erich Fromm, Mother Theresa and Zsa Zsa Gabor,’ as the cover tells us.