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She fell into a profound sleep.
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She shared a profound way of thinking about the problem.
profound = deep or far-reaching in intellect or consequence
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- She has a profound mind.
- It's a profound book
- She is a profound thinker.
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The speech was much the same each year: recollection of the time of childhood and the period of preparation, the coming responsibilities of adult life, the profound importance of Assignment, the seriousness of training to come.
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profound = deep or far-reaching in consequence
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That's very profound.
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Each child was supposed to clip an item from a newspaper, absorb its contents, and reveal them to the class. This practice allegedly overcame a variety of evils: standing in front of his fellows encouraged good posture and gave a child poise; delivering a short talk made him word-conscious; learning his current event strengthened his memory; being singled out made him more than ever anxious to return to the Group. The idea was profound, but as usual, in Maycomb it didn't work very well.
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profound = deep or far-reaching in intellect or consequence
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...the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.
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- Actually, I'm what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker — a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten: not bad, but not particularly good either. (source)
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He says it like he's about to follow it up with something profound, but instead, my name is the only thing he says.
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profound = deep or far-reaching in intellect or consequence
- All of this is to say that when the squirrel in the Tickhams' backyard got swallowed up by the Ulysses 2000X, there weren't a lot of terribly profound thoughts going through his head. (source)
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It's accurate but it isn't profound.
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I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.
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profound = far-reaching and insightful
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When I pointed this out to Father, he was as delighted as though I had made a profound discovery.
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profound = important (far-reaching in intellect or consequence)
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Down inside I had important things to tell her, big profound things, but I couldn't make any words come out.
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This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable "the truth" can be.
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profound = deep or far-reaching in intellect or insight
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Sounds always affected me profoundly and the principal's voice was one of my favorites.
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profoundly = in a deep or far-reaching manner
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For a second she really did remind me of Neferet, and I wondered whether she was going to say something profound and leader-like.
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"In ten years from tomorrow, I'll be twenty." I don't know why I said it out loud. It was just this profound realization, and it had to be shared.
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...rules of that sort ... can't possibly be expected to apply to profound students and great thinkers and sages.
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But nothing he can do to himself would have the kind of profound effect on him it would have on you or Jonathan, because you were so young.
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what profound conclusions were they drawing?
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We know he's about to tell us something that he thinks is dead profound.
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... "This is some of my great wisdom!"
But Vainamoinen merely smiled and asked his challenger to speak of more profound things. (source)
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"Maritain has some profound things to say about the religion of racists," he said, leafing the book.
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profound = deep or far-reaching in intellect or insight
- The mild alcoholic fog prevented any profound analysis of what had happened, (source)
- He fell asleep murmuring 'Sanity is not statistical,' with the feeling that this remark contained in it a profound wisdom. (source)
- "Tom's getting very profound," said Daisy, with an expression of unthoughtful sadness. "He reads deep books with long words in them." (source)
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...the conclusions thus attained are often so profound and so unerring as to possess the character of truth supernaturally revealed.
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It was a great surprise to Scrooge, while listening to the moaning of the wind, and thinking what a solemn thing it was to move on through the lonely darkness over an unknown abyss, whose depths were secrets as profound as Death: it was a great surprise to Scrooge, while thus engaged, to hear a hearty laugh.
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So you see he would have been a very profound old man, indeed, to suspect...
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...many profound thoughts were incidentally suggested to me, capable of a transcendental and Platonic application;
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He added with the air of a profound thinker, "One is indebted sometimes to fortune, sometimes to ruse, for the happy issue of great enterprises."
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She was acquainted with the profound importance of seal blubber.
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profound = deep or far-reaching in intellect or consequence
- Here I'd thought this gesture was so deep, so profound, and it was just… a mistake. (source)
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...it is based on a seemingly obvious—but nonetheless quite profound—observation.
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That's profound, Sandy.
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profound = deep or far-reaching in intellect or insight
- ...what is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound. (source)
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Yet, had Alymer reached a profounder wisdom, he need not thus have flung away the happiness which...
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profounder = deeper
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Sad, indeed, that an introspection so profound and acute as this poor minister's should be so miserably deceived!
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At every step he was incited to do some strange, wild, wicked thing or other, with a sense that it would be at once involuntary and intentional, in spite of himself, yet growing out of a profounder self than that which opposed the impulse.
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Upon the corner of the moon
There hangs a vaporous drop profound; (source)profound = with deep, far-reaching, hidden qualities
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...he would give us good counsel in this emergency, for he was a profound philosopher.
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And profound Solomon
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profound = deep thinking
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I have, since I was three year old, conversed with a magician, most profound in his art and yet not damnable.
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The law will have a profound effect on society.
profound = intense
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Her apology was heartfelt--expressing profound sorrow and regret.
profound = intense (of great emotional depth)
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It was a profound spiritual experience that changed her life.
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But that will never happen again, and I am so very profoundly sorry.
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Men subjected to dehumanizing treatment experience profound wretchedness and loneliness and find that hope is almost impossible to retain.
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[H]is life is so profoundly in transaction with nature that there is no place for abstraction or esthetics or a "nature philosophy" which can be separated from the rest of his life.
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Two weeks had gone by since the night of the storm, the night of Mae Tuck's escape. And Mae had not been found. There was no trace of her at all, or of Tuck or Miles or Jesse. Winnie was profoundly grateful for that.
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profoundly = very
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made a profound decision
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I know Mother would profoundly disapprove of the cleavage the dress enables me to have.
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They persisted in pleading Not Guilty to first-degree murder, so there was nothing much Atticus could do for his clients except be present at their departure, an occasion that was probably the beginning of my father's profound distaste for the practice of criminal law.
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It is all so profoundly stupid.
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profoundly = utterly (with greatest intensity)
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His eyes are profoundly blue.
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The Englishman had been profoundly impressed by the story.
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I think his shortcoming increased his appreciation; he loved it all indiscriminately—Beethoven, the latest love ditty, jazz, a hymn—it was all profoundly musical to Phineas.
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Fireflies went about with their tiny green lamps, which only made the darkness more profound.
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- The mournful, faraway look on Alice's face had a profound effect on the prince. (source)
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The relentless uniformity of it upsets him profoundly, more so than even the hospital, and the sight of his father's face.
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Tita knew perfectly well that her mother felt profoundly humiliated because not only did she have to allow Tita back into her house again but until she recovered she needed Tita to take care of her.
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There was silence so profound, Hannah wondered if she had gone deaf.
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Troy is usually the most talkative and at times he can be crude and almost vulgar, though he is capable of rising to profound heights of expression.
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This seemed like a safe statement to make when someone as truly, profoundly strange as William Spiver was standing beside her.
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And she stared up at me with a look of such profound sadness it damn near broke me in half and...
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But today, for me, is profoundly different than yesterday.
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Sethe learned the profound satisfaction Beloved got from storytelling.
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profound = of greatest intensity or emotional depth
- The Great Sadness is gone and he experiences most days with a profound sense of joy. (source)
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I am profoundly stirred!
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In spite of my profound reservations, I thought I would always treasure Joan.
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profound = deep; or of greatest intensity
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He is just tired--profoundly exhausted--after...
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Once, I had believed profoundly that...
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The Realization was like jamming a paper clip into a light socket: profoundly stunning
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(RUTH: Almost gently, with profound understanding) You think you a woman, Bennie—but you still a little girl.
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"Tears, tears," Joe said, reciting again, "tears from the depths of some profound despair."
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Liam didn't looked stressed so much as profoundly sad.
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We all sat in silence and thought about a young girl whose problem could affect us so profoundly.
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Then slowly they saw the forms of the encircling mountains mirrored in a profound blue,
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Blackness was rushing in at the edges of his vision—a more profound blackness than the darkness of sleep.
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For me, it is profoundly humbling.
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profoundly = with the greatest intensity or emotional depth
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with profound respect
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This time, though, Lourdes longs for a profound emptiness, to be clean and hollow as a flute.
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It gave him profound aches...
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He is hurt, but it is more a profound humiliation than a physical injury.
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...he said in a voice of profound gloom.
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profound = intensely felt
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Like Holmes, many Civil War soldiers felt a profound and passionate commitment to the ideological purposes for which they fought.
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But Pickett was profoundly moved.
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Since I was a little kid, I've had this profound connection with and love for deep, dark, unmolested woods.
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I feel impelled to mention one other point in your statement that has troubled me profoundly.
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Ralph burst with pride when Grover was paper-trained; and when he'd shrunk the paper down and moved it successfully outside, he felt such a profound sense of accomplishment that all his organs seemed to relax and settle.
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The change in climate had a profound effect on me;
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I could only conclude that his attitude came from an overwhelming love for his child, so profound it spilled over to all humanity.
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...such natural catastrophes as earthquakes or floods, which might have a profound effect on large numbers of people...
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profound = very intense
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He rode in a silence so tense, so profound, that those in the far bleachers could hear the grunt and wheeze of the horse at every frantic lunge.
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This wasn't just a readiness to accept Fate; this was a quiet and profound conviction about the vanity of all human endeavour.
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profound = intense (and important and far-reaching)
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There was no way of knowing whose job would finally be adopted, but he felt a profound conviction that it would be his own.
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Well, of course, our readers would be profoundly interested…
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- We were trained in the army for ten weeks and in this time more profoundly influenced than by ten years at school. (source)
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...and it occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.
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profound = great in intensity
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the profound desolation of the ocean
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Profound wounds of right knee and foot.
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This man had shared with her something profoundly intimate.
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Her faint became a profound slumber.
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...even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.
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I have no experience of this profound desire to which you allude.
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...to the hidden evil, to the profound darkness of its heart.
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Shame was upon him, and with it profound regret that he was, perhaps, no more to be counted in the ranks of his fellows.
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profound slumber
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There was a long silence, profound and unbroken;
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There was a momentary silence, profound as what should follow the utterance of oracles.
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But what he was contemplating with that profound gaze was not her beauty but her soul.
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the most profound of slumbers
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But a blight had come over my existence, and I only visited these people for the sake of the information they might give me on the subject in which my interest was so terribly profound.
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But now Gilgamesh was overcome by weakness, for sleep had seized him suddenly, a profound sleep held him; he lay on the ground, stretched out speechless, as though in a dream.
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- "What I just said is, 'I am the child of two profoundly deaf parents."† (source)
- For it is a fact that a man can be profoundly out of step with his times.† (source)
- All three children were profoundly affected by their tumultuous home life.† (source)
- I'm profoundly proud of her for refusing to cave in, and for saying yes to her killers, and I always will be.† (source)
- The feeling of busyness was profoundly satisfying; I hadn't thought at all about my plight or myself.† (source)
- Brooks," he then said, "it is my opinion that Melody is severely brain-damaged and profoundly retarded."† (source)
- The Teacher heaved a sigh, as if what he now had to do was profoundly regrettable.† (source)
- Racial terror and the constant threat created by violently enforced racial hierarchy were profoundly traumatizing for African Americans.† (source)
- Kate said, profoundly relieved.† (source)
- The shopping list is profoundly basic. gasoline batteries Band-Aids corn (if any) insect repellent hamburg and buns (lots) eggs milk flour butter beer (lots) fruit (if any) bacon tomatoes clothespins (for Prue) lemons live bait† (source)
- He laughed politely, though he must have thought me profoundly stupid.† (source)
- After four nights of awful sleep in the rover, my bunk felt like the softest, most profoundly beautiful feather bed ever made.† (source)
- You're the boss," said Ron, sounding profoundly relieved.† (source)
- At some point during the night it had gone profoundly bad, spoiling like I've never seen fruit spoil.† (source)
- It was profoundly creepy to see desktop after desktop with the same unmarked calendar: February 1986.† (source)
- Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung.† (source)
- Everyone seemed profoundly shocked at the Holiday Inn idea, as if Grandpa Decker and Dorothy had suggested I move into a shed in their back yard, but to me it didn't seem so bad.† (source)
- A profoundly powerful one.† (source)
- The force coming from his mind felt decayed and unwholesome; there was something profoundly wrong about it.† (source)
- He was profoundly embarrassed by my pregnancies.† (source)
- Your levitation trick seemed to affect them rather profoundly.† (source)
- Lincoln's funeral procession was the saddest, most profoundly moving spectacle ever staged in the history of the United States.† (source)
- There seemed to be no subject which he had not investigated and in which he was not profoundly learned.† (source)
- If we see it as Sonny's story, the resolution will be profoundly dissatisfying.† (source)
- And everyone knew where Eamon Bailey lived—a highly visible, profoundly modest three-bedroom home on a widely accessible street ten minutes from campus.† (source)
- Sonny, please listen and remember you are hearing from a profoundly ignorant man.† (source)
- She wishes, profoundly, that she had her plank with her.† (source)
- Other cities were being transformed by car ownership, but none was so profoundly altered.† (source)
- And he seemed, on his seat in the creek, profoundly howling, looking up over the earthen mound and into the trees across the expressway. this frightened them all the more.† (source)
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- He wanted to hug her, fold her into his arms, but as he moved toward her, she hung her head low to the side in profound shyness and backed up.† (source)
- It did not seem as profound as it should.† (source)
- Claude sauntered into the living room and paged through a magazine, then climbed the stairs, and all the while a silence occupied the house so profound that when the lead snapped in his father's pencil, Edgar heard him swear under his breath and throw it across the room.† (source)
- "You mean profound!" the doctoral student said, raising a finger.† (source)
- When one experiences a profound setback in the course of an enviable life, one has a variety of options.† (source)
- He feels profound grief for his scattered family.† (source)
- A merciless wind was blowing through Germany, awaking in the young couple a profound unease.† (source)
- Especially not after receiving a handwritten card like this one, which appeared in our mailbox about a month after Cassie's death: Dear Bernall family, It is with great difficulty and humility that we write to express our profound sorrow over the loss of your beautiful daughter, Cassie.† (source)
- Thomas was slightly disappointed—he'd been expecting something more profound.† (source)
- But her simple and profound answer helped me to understand that ubuntu was not simply a word.† (source)
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- She was in a state of profound shock.† (source)
- Teabing felt a profound disappointment in Robert Langdon.† (source)
- The collateral consequences of mass incarceration have been equally profound.† (source)
- Mr. Benedict had wondered how the hidden messages could be so simple and yet have such profound effects.† (source)
- Ten minutes later he called back with profound apologies: The no-trousers rule for women had never been lifted before and the board dared not do it now.† (source)
- I feel a profound singularity, here, in a place where I've almost grown comfortable.† (source)
- Since then, I might have declared that I was "not myself" or "out of my mind" or "beside myself," but the profoundest characteristic of my state of mind was not, in the end, what I did, but how palpably it felt like the real me.† (source)
- —thinks that Hester the Molester is both profound and humane.† (source)
- There was a moment of silence so profound that it seemed the city was asleep.† (source)
- A profound stillness settles over the barracks.† (source)
- Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, and whether it was this particular moment she would remember for the rest of her life—with gratitude, or profound and particular regret.† (source)
- No longer contending with the deadweight of the first stage, the acceleration was profound.† (source)
- Though Ariana had been in poor health for a long time, the blow, coming so soon after the loss of their mother, had a profound effect on both of her brothers.† (source)
- The profoundness of our lips touching and our tongues pressing and my hand cupping her perfect white cheek barred any thoughts of right or wrong or any memory of why I had followed her there in the first place.† (source)
- In some ways the story made less sense each time he read it, the scenes he pictured so vividly, and absorbed so fully, growing more elusive and profound.† (source)
- He could philosophize about even the most profound aspects of life without his hands pausing or making a mistake.† (source)
- There was something more profound, more structural, going on in that cockpit.† (source)
- My relief is so profound that I hardly notice my feet carve their way into my favorite row.† (source)
- "Ah yes, Vogonity—sorry—of the poet's compassionate soul"—Arthur felt he was on the homestretch now—"which contrives through the medium of the verse structure to sublimate this, transcend that, and come to terms with the fundamental dichotomies of the other"—he was reaching a triumphant crescendo—"and one is left with a profound and vivid insight into … into … er …"† (source)
- Even the suggestion that my father had close friends (much less "buddies") conveyed a misunderstanding of his personality so profound I didn't know how to respond.† (source)
- The ongoing hypoxia, coupled with my profound fatigue, exacerbated the sense of chaos and despair.† (source)
- A perfect, profound silence.† (source)
- Of course, it doesn't aim to be profound.† (source)
- Her scales rustled over the dry rock as she stood above him, eyes profound.† (source)
- The respect in his voice was profound whenever he spoke of his father figure.† (source)
- Our handshake was prolonged and, for me, profound.† (source)
- In fact, his madness had become more profound.† (source)
- Rain prompts ancestral memories of the most profound sort.† (source)
- Without question this modern American dictionary is one of the most surprisingly complex and profound documents ever to be created, for it embodies unparalleled etymological detail, reflecting not only superb lexicographic scholarship, but also the dreams and speech and imaginative talents of millions of people over thousands of years—for every person who has ever spoken or written in English has had a hand in its making….† (source)
- And the cost differential is profound.† (source)
- The guy's dead, he kept saying, which seemed profound-the guy's dead.† (source)
- Oh, wow, we're going to be profound now.† (source)
- Today she senses a profound apathy at the school.† (source)
- I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill.† (source)
- I counter with a profound depth or void.† (source)
- I didn't understand, but a profound sense of loss crept over me.† (source)
- An expression of profound hurt crossed his face.† (source)
- It must have been towards the end of 1920 that Lord Darlington made the first of a number of trips to Berlin himself, and I can remember the profound effect it had on him.† (source)
- Because you are so lost and independent you bring to her many complications, and as a result you find even her simplicity profound.† (source)
- Kote gave Chronicler a look of profound disdain.† (source)
- I feel as though I'm eavesdropping on the life of a young man in his prime, and this recorded history of Nathaniel's brief career fills me with pride and profound sadness.† (source)
- I love the idea of Bill Dunne, the living totem of everything Nick fears he could become, the object of Nick's most profound despair, showing up over and over and over on our doorstep.† (source)
- She could not avoid a profound feeling of rancor toward her husband for having left her alone in the middle of the ocean.† (source)
- And that was a more subtle and profound matter.† (source)
- That dedication and sacrifice made a profound impression on my life.† (source)
- This was the basis of the profound crisis that shattered the scientific complacency of the Gilded Age.† (source)
- The joy they brought us was profound.† (source)
- Carl Heine's dark struggle, his effort to hold his breath, the volume of water that had filled the vacuum of his gut, his profound unconsciousness and final convulsions, his terminal gasps in the grip of death as the last of the air leaked out of him and his heart halted and his brain ceased to consider anything—they were all recorded, or not recorded, in the slab of flesh that lay on Horace Whaley's examination table.† (source)
- But there are also the profound truths, whose op-posites are equally right.† (source)
- She struggled between an overwhelming desire that one would kill the other, and a profound wish that she herself could die.† (source)
- The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.† (source)
- The locality around Marin seemed to be rousing itself from a profound and collective low in those days.† (source)
- It was more profound than other sentiments I'd known, and I was taken with the idea that in an ostensibly godless world that worshiped money and power or, more seductively, a sense of personal efficacy and advancement, like at Duke and Harvard, there was still a place to look for God, and that was in the suffering of the poor.† (source)
- He could not tell them that it was his daughter's obviously profound knowledge of the Bible that had set him on the right track regarding Harriet Vanger's disappearance.† (source)
- And itis a profound difference, which takes a lot of explaining.† (source)
- I find that statement profound on a number of levels.† (source)
- Even in the profoundest somnolence, people do not tread so deeply into the realm of sleep.† (source)
- Sorrow and profound fatigue are at the heart of Dewey's silence.† (source)
- She'd had the grades to get into medical school, and had considered being an OB/GYN, until she realized that she had a profound inability to sit bedside by a patient and not feel her pain.† (source)
- This quality involves a sense of the self so profound and so powerful that it does not so much leap barriers as reduce them to atoms—while still leaving them standing, mightily, where they were; and this awful sense is private, unknowable, not to be articulated, having, literally, to do with something else; it transforms and lays waste and gives life, and kills.† (source)
- This command was greeted by profound dismay and outrage.† (source)
- Marcus's yellow eyes are troubled, his lack of malice so profound that I barely recognize him.† (source)
- Luma wasn't a social worker, and she had no background in dealing with profound psychological trauma.† (source)
- Such profound and simple dreams, and they couldn't come true, and where was the fairness in that?† (source)
- We feel that this is a mood struck perhaps an hour before, and it lingers now, full of the empty sound of profound disappointment.† (source)
- That poet she met at Lucinda's party the night before argued that no matter how much of it one lost, in the midst of some profound emotion, one would revert to one's mother tongue.† (source)
- But the child's left arm was broken, the small body was dreadfully bruised, and the terror had left a profound mental disturbance.† (source)
- Or something profound.† (source)
- I want you to find a child, a young adult, a full-grown adult, and an older person—each of whom is experiencing a profound problem.† (source)
- I followed his gaze out the window, feeling profound relief that I wouldn't have to stay down here with evil Shorty.† (source)
- Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice."† (source)
- The silence was so profound that I turned back to make sure that the horses were following.† (source)
- He had not bothered to shave for two days, a sign of profound demoralization.† (source)
- Religion plays a particularly profound role in shaping policies on population and family planning, and secular liberals and conservative Christians regularly square off.† (source)
- His was a household name across America, and trainers regarded him with profound reverence.† (source)
- I missed him and his enticing stories—they had a profound effect on my life.† (source)
- "Profound silence would brood over the valley," he wrote, "even weighing down our spirits with indefinable heaviness.† (source)
- And together we walk towards the new millennium, carried by profound fear and extraordinary hope.† (source)
- And the 50,000 who came to watch them were moved by emotions far more profound than mere celebrity worship.† (source)
- Frodo gazed fixedly at the red embers on the hearth, until they filled all his vision, and he seemed to be looking down into profound wells of fire.† (source)
- It rang deeply and loud, finally fading into profound silence.† (source)
- I felt a profound, undeniable relief.† (source)
- Finally she had no choice but to put tranquilizers in his food and sleeping pills in his water, which stunned him into a profound, tormented sleep, from which he would awake with a dry mouth and a sadder heart.† (source)
- No. Milo looked at Yossarian with profound emotion.† (source)
- That year when Snow Flower and I went to the Temple of Gupo, our thanks were profound and deep.† (source)
- He seems to have these dense, profound dilemmas, where Zayd just dabbles in anything he can find.† (source)
- This reconciliation with Hitler reveals the profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on the nonexistence of return, for in this world everything is pardoned in advance and therefore everything cynically permitted.† (source)
- There was a profound silence.† (source)
- He shook his head in amazement and suddenly had a profound admiration for Mr. Seth Hubbard.† (source)
- Of profound meaning and raw emotion.† (source)
- She risked failure and profound public embarrassment in order to feed her soul.† (source)
- Had not seen it, perhaps, as she had not seen my profound disturbance at realizing she was no longer one person but two, in conflict with each other.† (source)
- You just be patient," said the voice, hollow with profound detachment.† (source)
- The effect of the King's speech on Washington was profound.† (source)
- I hint—against the editor's advice—that surely something profound is coming, some great change.† (source)
- Again, the government's profound thanks, Fathers.† (source)
- Profound.† (source)
- For the losses were too many and the damage to our spirits too profound.† (source)
- Standing above her, I stated, "Of all the men I have known, Harold's had the most profound effect on me."† (source)
- Ernesto had been a virgin when Felicia coaxed him to the backseat of her car, and he displayed the profound gratitude of the unburdened.† (source)
- "It's a profound conviction."† (source)
- When Meribald was finished a profound silence fell upon their little band.† (source)
- He raised a finger, like he always did when he thought he was getting dead profound.† (source)
- The thoughts passed like street signs—some profound, some vain and silly—as Max tried to contemplate a world without him.† (source)
- Avoiding Germans they were delivering themselves into rural silences ever more profound.† (source)
- The president's only complaint about his wife is that Jackie has a profound indifference to fiscal discipline.† (source)
- "If I was good at marketing, I'd spin you an empty story that sounds profound.† (source)
- He seemed to feel a profound contentment.† (source)
- Jessica's dreams weren't usually very profound.† (source)
- GEORGE: The most profound indication of a social malignancy …. no sense of humor.† (source)
- Now you're going to be profound.† (source)
- This is why the impact will be more profound.† (source)
- A more profound alienation and solitude gripped her during those final days.† (source)
- There's a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.† (source)
- Something profound, but I don't say that.† (source)
- But one night last week, after a full day of escorting him to district meetings and fundraisers, I realized that Kwang presented a profound problem for me.† (source)
- Its absence from the flesh in the act of love is far more profound than any protestation or vow.† (source)
- The silence at the other end was so profound that he wondered if she had hung up.† (source)
- Cassius looked upon the young barbarian with profound respect, and also deep curiosity.† (source)
- I should say talk at, because I certainly didn't have any profound answers.† (source)
- Longstreet felt a depression so profound it deadened him.† (source)
- His expression projected a sense of profound boredom, but the fingers of his right hand, which were tapping lightly on the armrest, betrayed the true state of his emotions.† (source)
- But alas, he had now metamorphosed into a full-blown scientist, and was so shrouded in professional dignity that it was all I could do to refrain from making him a profound obeisance.† (source)
- The problem began to expand to levels at once more profound and absurd.† (source)
- Wright's poetry had a profound effect on the work of all of us at the conference.† (source)
- There was never a minute that we didn't have something profound to talk about.† (source)
- At last, with a little shaking of his arm, and thrice his head waving up and down, he raises a sigh so piteous and profound that it does seem to shatter all his bulk and end his being.† (source)
- Outside my open window, frogs and crickets made the silence more profound.† (source)
- George eyed the device with profound distrust.† (source)
- I have never slept in such a dark, dreamless profound way.† (source)
- Are these the beginnings of profound changes in the Soviet state?† (source)
- That, sir, was a profound knowledge of man.† (source)
- A feeling of profound jealousy of the dolphin came over me and did not entirely vanish.† (source)
- George esteemed the female body but had a profound respect for brains.† (source)
- She said it was profound, the story of their life.† (source)
- She had started thinking of it as a great joke and then she had begun to see profound implications in it.† (source)
- In this absurdity, so contrary to common sense, the doctor saw a profound symbol.† (source)
- At the last moment, just as he was beginning to tell them, he always felt such sudden, profound doubt of their sincerity that he did not want to go ahead, but he always felt, too, Maybe they mean it.† (source)
- I gazed at the small tired face, soothed by sleep as it had not been for many nights, and even as I puzzled about the change, profound gratitude flooded through me, and it seemed to me that the Gods were not remote, not unheedful, since they had heard his cries and stilled them as it were by a miracle.† (source)
- But this "profound selfishness," which Emerson was so certain the speech represented, could not have entered into Daniel Webster's motivations.† (source)
- "The King of the Snakes," intoned old Doc in his profound bass.† (source)
- For a moment I thought you were being profound.† (source)
- This profound instinctive horror and fear astonished him.† (source)
- If I did, it certainly wasn't anything very profound.† (source)
- His death is a profound loss for science.† (source)
- The ancients possessed profound scientific wisdom.† (source)
- Sadie and I just stared at him, but Thoth nodded as if the baboon had said something profound.† (source)
- Finally the story of his life carries a profound religious message.† (source)
- The distance was too great, Minnie's reticence too profound.† (source)
- I stared at his face in profound relief, relief that went beyond my sudden deliverance.† (source)
- They sat down at the foot of the wall, overcome by a profound despair.† (source)
- His shouts echoed off the back wall of the Sistine Chapel and then a profound silence fell.† (source)
- Rachel's dark hair was not much shorter then, her gaze no less profound.† (source)
- It was August and the humidity was profound.† (source)
- It has a profound influence on the researcher's perspective on life."† (source)
- I knew it mainly as a childhood moment, the profound stir of secret-keeping.† (source)
- With the exception of his headache and the profound darkness, everything seemed more or less normal.† (source)
- She'd fade in and out of it before the profound exhaustion dragged her down into unconsciousness.† (source)
- The feeling, a paradoxical mix of pulsing energy and profound peace, was intense and blissful.† (source)
- "Thank you for your profound contribution, Tommy," said Ruth.† (source)
- From this sprang the most profound moment in Christian history.† (source)
- It took the most profound of her Bene Gesserit training to quiet her pulse and smooth her breathing.† (source)
- HARRY: A centaur with profound Divination skills.† (source)
- He only shook his head, slowly, as if in disappointment most profound.† (source)
- "The question is difficult and profound," the Librarian says.† (source)
- The profound but strange content of Three Body had had a psychological impact on the participants.† (source)
- He does this for a very simple, very profound reason: we need to be part of that communion.† (source)
- Was Kohler's loathing really this profound?† (source)
- Here endeth my profound tutelage of E'lir Kvothe!"† (source)
- Still, Mae had, in recent days, thought of Francis, the profound contrast he offered to Kalden.† (source)
- It satisfied his profound need for attention and gave him a sense of power over the detective.† (source)
- But in a much more profound, general sense than you can possibly imagine.† (source)
- The look of shock on her face when he released her was so profound that he could not ignore it.† (source)
- They are often markers for a more profound meaning concealed beneath the surface.† (source)
- Every fiber of her body accepted the fact that something profound had happened to it.† (source)
- I want to say something profound but I can think of nothing.† (source)
- A profound compassion for her swept through him.† (source)
- He had become unmanageable, his dementia profound.† (source)
- Okay, so it's not the most profound insight ever, but it matters.† (source)
- In an abrupt and profound silence, Chani turned, stared at Paul.† (source)
- She saw a profound clue to Fremen technology in the simple fact: they were perfectionists.† (source)
- Jessica glared at her son, shocked by the profound change in him.† (source)
- The landscape had undergone a profound shifting.† (source)
- Jubilation at this "sign of profound accord" proved premature.† (source)
- The profound, ringing silence seemed louder to Thomas than the roar that preceded it.† (source)
- Adams's part in Holland and at Paris had been profound.† (source)
- An expression of profound sorrow engulfed the ancient Rider.† (source)
- This is what is going on in Micronesia, only at a much more profound level.† (source)
- Do you have a lot of other profound thoughts like that?† (source)
- They got out of the car, the heat profound.† (source)
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