All 14 Uses of
profound
in
Atlas Shrugged
- The capacity for unclouded enjoyment, she thought, does not belong to irresponsible fools; an inviolate peace of spirit is not the achievement of a drifter; to be able to laugh like that is the end result of the most profound, most solemn thinking.†
Chpt 1.5
- To recognize one's guilt, yet feel nothing but the coldest, most profound indifference-wasn't it a betrayal of that which had been the motor of his life-course and of his pride?†
Chpt 1.6
- But with every hour of his life, with the strain and the pride of every moment when his muscles or his mind had ached from effort, with every step he had taken to rise out of the mines of Minnesota and to turn his effort into gold, with all of his profound respect for money and for its meaning, he despised the squanderer who did not know how to deserve the great gift of inherited wealth.†
Chpt 1.6
- He could not understand why-he thought it was an obscene conflict, the sign of some secret depravity within him-why he felt, at the same time, a profound pride at the thought of granting to a woman the title of his wife.†
Chpt 1.6
- It was a look of the most profound sympathy that Rearden had ever seen.†
Chpt 1.10
- He seemed to feel a profound contentment.†
Chpt 1.10 *
- He said slowly, intently, "So do I." Something in the way he said it made her feel the bond of some profound emotion which they held in common; it broke the discipline that forbade her ever to call for help.†
Chpt 1.10
- No matter what corruption he's taught about the virtue of selflessness, sex is the most profoundly selfish of all acts, an act which he cannot perform for any motive but his own enjoyment-just try to think of performing it in a spirit of selfless charity!†
Chpt 2.4
- He will not acknowledge his need of self-esteem, since he scoffs at such a concept as moral values; yet he feels the profound self-contempt which comes from believing that he is a piece of meat.†
Chpt 2.4
- He had been considered profound for uttering such things as: "Freedom?†
Chpt 2.7
- The tramp's last sentence was one of the most profoundly moral statements she had ever heard; but the man did not know it; he had said it in his impassive, extinguished voice, simply, dryly, as a matter of fact.†
Chpt 2.10 *
- The boy's head dropped back against Rearden's arm, the eyes closing, the mouth relaxing, as if to hold a moment's profound contentment.†
Chpt 3.6
- His first awareness, when he opened his eyes, was a sense of profound serenity.†
Chpt 3.6
- …their rationality, their perceptiveness become the enemies you have to dread and flee-that you do not care to live as a dependent, least of all a dependent on the stupidity of others, or as a fool whose source of values is the fools he succeeds in fooling-that honesty is not a social duty, not a sacrifice for the sake of others, but the most profoundly selfish virtue man can practice: his refusal to sacrifice the reality of his own existence to the deluded consciousness of others.†
Chpt 3.7
Definitions:
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(profound as in: profound sadness) of greatest intensity or emotional depth
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(profound as in: profound idea) deep or far-reaching in intellect or consequence