On Tuesday, they ranged from the polite to the profane, the humorous to the hateful.

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My mind quickly wandered to the profane, and I thought to myself: the world is starving for US currency leadership.

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They also insist they have taken action against attacks by Salafists, everywhere from the American embassy to sacred Sufi shrines and art exhibitions deemed to be profane.

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With "Maus, " Mr. Spiegelman found a subject, the Holocaust, which he famously described as "too profane to show directly, " hence his depiction of animals as opposed to human beings.

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The externality argument is in many respects just a highfalutin way of expressing revulsion that anyone should be so profane as to attempt to measure the returns on something as ineffable as education.

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"There is no way of getting around its contents, which to many in the Latter-day Saints community will be horrendous, shocking, profane, blasphemous, and something that they will want nothing to do with, " Mr. Ballard said.

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Many myths make no sense outside a liturgical drama that brings them to life, and are incomprehensible in a profane setting.

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The number of temples is overwhelming, but so is the media's indifference to this aspect of the city, as is their consistent tendency to sell the world the most glamour-focused, profane vision of New York.

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The locations featured in these paintings are unrecognisable today but the dual meaning of the beach - a place that is both semi-sacred in its natural beauty and also verging on the profane with its good times - has only continued to grow more powerful.

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