profoundin a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
profound as in: profound idea
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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 fell into a profound sleep.
profound = deep
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She is a profound thinker.
profound = deep or far-reaching in intellect or consequence
- It's a profound book
- She has a profound mind.
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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
- He says it like he's about to follow it up with something profound, but instead, my name is the only thing he says. (source)
- 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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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.
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profound = deep or far-reaching
- ...the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are. (source)
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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. (source)
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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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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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It's accurate but it isn't profound.
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- This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable "the truth" can be. (source)
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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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- 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. (source)
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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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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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... "This is some of my great wisdom!"
But Vainamoinen merely smiled and asked his challenger to speak of more profound things. (source)profound = deep or far-reaching in intellect or consequence
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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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profound = deep or far-reaching in intellect or insight
- what profound conclusions were they drawing? (source)
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We know he's about to tell us something that he thinks is dead profound.
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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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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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profounder = deeper
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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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...many profound thoughts were incidentally suggested to me, capable of a transcendental and Platonic application;
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So you see he would have been a very profound old man, indeed, to suspect...
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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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...it is based on a seemingly obvious—but nonetheless quite profound—observation.
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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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That's profound, Sandy.
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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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...what is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound.
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...he would give us good counsel in this emergency, for he was a profound philosopher.
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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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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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And profound Solomon
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profound as in: profound sadness
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Her apology was heartfelt--expressing profound sorrow and regret.
profound = intense (of great emotional depth)
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The law will have a profound effect on society.
profound = intense
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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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profoundly = deeply or intensely
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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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Men subjected to dehumanizing treatment experience profound wretchedness and loneliness and find that hope is almost impossible to retain.
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The Englishman had been profoundly impressed by the story.
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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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His eyes are profoundly blue.
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profoundly = with greatest intensity or emotional depth
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made a profound decision
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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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I know Mother would profoundly disapprove of the cleavage the dress enables me to have.
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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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It is all so profoundly stupid.
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profoundly = utterly (with greatest intensity)
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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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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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profoundly = with the greatest intensity or emotional depth
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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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There was silence so profound, Hannah wondered if she had gone deaf.
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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 Great Sadness is gone and he experiences most days with a profound sense of joy.
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profound = of greatest intensity or emotional depth
- Sethe learned the profound satisfaction Beloved got from storytelling. (source)
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But today, for me, is profoundly different than yesterday.
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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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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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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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I am profoundly stirred!
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Liam didn't looked stressed so much as profoundly sad.
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The Realization was like jamming a paper clip into a light socket: profoundly stunning
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He is just tired--profoundly exhausted--after...
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"Tears, tears," Joe said, reciting again, "tears from the depths of some profound despair."
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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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(RUTH: Almost gently, with profound understanding) You think you a woman, Bennie—but you still a little girl.
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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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profound = intense
- It gave him profound aches... (source)
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Something was profoundly wrong here,
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Then slowly they saw the forms of the encircling mountains mirrored in a profound blue,
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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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...he said in a voice of profound gloom.
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profound = intensely felt
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I feel impelled to mention one other point in your statement that has troubled me profoundly.
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He is hurt, but it is more a profound humiliation than a physical injury.
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The change in climate had a profound effect on me;
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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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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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Like Holmes, many Civil War soldiers felt a profound and passionate commitment to the ideological purposes for which they fought.
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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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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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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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...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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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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...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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We were trained in the army for ten weeks and in this time more profoundly influenced than by ten years at school.
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So said Mrs. Rachel to the wild rose bushes out of the fulness of her heart; but if she could have seen the child who was waiting patiently at the Bright River station at that very moment her pity would have been still deeper and more profound.
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profound = intense
- Profound wounds of right knee and foot. (source)
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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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...to the hidden evil, to the profound darkness of its heart.
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- a profound sense of desertion and despair (source)
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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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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)
- The first time the Count had joined Nina on the balcony, he couldn't help but feel some astonishment at how profoundly the life of the ballroom had changed.† (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)
- Racial terror and the constant threat created by violently enforced racial hierarchy were profoundly traumatizing for African Americans.† (source)
- Bishop Manuel Aringarosa's body had endured many kinds of pain, and yet the searing heat of the bullet wound in his chest felt profoundly foreign to him.† (source)
- "Mrs. Brooks," he then said, "it is my opinion that Melody is severely brain-damaged and profoundly retarded."† (source)
- After four nights of awful sleep in the rover, my bunk felt like the softest, most profoundly beautiful feather bed ever made.† (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)
- The shopping list is profoundly basic.† (source)
- At some point during the night it had gone profoundly bad, spoiling like I've never seen fruit spoil.† (source)
- Profoundly shocking though Albus Dumbledore's fans will find it, here are the thoughts of their seventeen-year-old hero, as relayed to his new best friend.† (source)
- To him this felt profoundly rude, but doing otherwise always seemed to make the Helpers uncomfortable.† (source)
- That the word had been written by a man confessing to an image in his mind, confiding a lonely preoccupation, disgusted her profoundly.† (source)
- It was profoundly creepy to see desktop after desktop with the same unmarked calendar: February 1986.† (source)
- A profoundly powerful one.† (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)
- Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to lift others onto the top rung.† (source)
- Your levitation trick seemed to affect them rather profoundly.† (source)
- The force coming from his mind felt decayed and unwholesome; there was something profoundly wrong about it.† (source)
- All these years later, the death of that dog still touched them profoundly.† (source)
- Bast gave a profoundly disapproving look.† (source)
- I was profoundly shaken by this encounter with the Germans, and decided that from now on I would lie on the roof by day, and climb down to the attic only when night came.† (source)
- D. H. Lawrence's work is profoundly political even when it doesn't look like it, even when he is less overt than in Women in Love, where he has a character say of a robin that it looks like a "little Lloyd-George of the air."† (source)
- There seemed to be no subject which he had not investigated and in which he was not profoundly learned.† (source)
- I myself was present at the neuro-hypnotic session referred to, as was the lady who has since consented to become my dear wife; and both of us were most profoundly affected by what we saw and heard.† (source)
- He was profoundly embarrassed by my pregnancies.† (source)
- And what I felt, most profoundly, for everything, even the sound of the playing cards being laid down one by one upon the shining rows of the solitaire, was respect.† (source)
- Margaret White was before my time, for which I am profoundly grateful.† (source)
- Chief Engineer Vladimir Petchukocov was a loyal Party member and a committed atheist, but he was also a sailor and therefore profoundly superstitious.† (source)
- Sophie was diagnosed as profoundly deaf.† (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)
- But remember that, like us, the knowledge that there are extraterrestrial civilizations will shock all of Earth society and leave profound marks.† (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)
- His response to the world he confronted in the middle of the twentieth century was profound and deeply felt, but he didn't speak to my experience as well as Colin Powell did.† (source)
- She was in a state of profound shock.† (source)
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- I pulled into the driveway and was surprised at the profound disrepair; this was a poor family's home.† (source)
- Teabing felt a profound disappointment in Robert Langdon.† (source)
- Thomas was slightly disappointed—he'd been expecting something more profound.† (source)
- No longer contending with the deadweight of the first stage, the acceleration was profound.† (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)
- 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)
- Dan nodded emphatically, as if his mouth had just uttered, independently, something that his ears found quite profound.† (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)
- 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)
- The Rev. Mr. Wiggin, such a veteran of Christmas pageants, looked at Owen Meany with profound respect—as if he'd seen the Christ Child come and go, but never before had he encountered a little Lord Jesus who was so perfect for the part.† (source)
- I feel a profound singularity, here, in a place where I've almost grown comfortable.† (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)
- 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)
- Mr. Benedict had wondered how the hidden messages could be so simple and yet have such profound effects.† (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)
- He could philosophize about even the most profound aspects of life without his hands pausing or making a mistake.† (source)
- A profound stillness settles over the barracks.† (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 ..." (which suddenly gave out on him).† (source)
- A perfect, profound silence.† (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)
- There was something more profound, more structural, going on in that cockpit.† (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)
- If I did, it certainly wasn't anything very profound.† (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)
- Her personality was eclectic and at times completely alien, yet they understood each other on a profound level.† (source)
- The guy's dead, he kept saying, which seemed profound-the guy's dead.† (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)
- Sol realized one day that the topics of the heated debates were so profound, the stakes to be settled so serious, the ground covered so broad, that the only person he could possibly be berating for such shortcomings was God Himself.† (source)
- The joy they brought us was profound.† (source)
- Before helping me limp to the Medica, Elodin made it clear that anyone stupid enough to jump off a roof was too reckless to be allowed to hold a spoon in his presence, let alone study something as "profound and volatile" as naming.† (source)
- The respect in his voice was profound whenever he spoke of his father figure.† (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)
- Beyond that, drowning or not has profound plot implications, as do the means by which a character does or doesn't drown.† (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)
- 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)
- With the nation's economic depression growing ever more profound—banks failing, suicides multiplying—it seemed an impossibility.† (source)
- The locality around Marin seemed to be rousing itself from a profound and collective low in those days.† (source)
- The fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him.† (source)
- All that confusion was then like dancers frenzied in a fog; and now, now in this strange vampire nature, I felt a profound sadness.† (source)
- An expression of profound hurt crossed his face.† (source)
- Then he read the first sentence from the introduction: 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)
- I missed him and his enticing stories—they had a profound effect on my life.† (source)
- This is the kind of seemingly precise question that is in fact very profound, and that pieces of software, such as myself, are notoriously clumsy at.† (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)
- Midnight came, and with it, a new calendar date, Sunday, July 3, which this year would be the midpoint of the Fourth of July weekend, a time for celebration all over the U.S.A., at least in most parts, except for those in profound mourning for the lost special forces.† (source)
- Luma wasn't a social worker, and she had no background in dealing with profound psychological trauma.† (source)
- That dedication and sacrifice made a profound impression on my life.† (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)
- Of course, it doesn't aim to be profound.† (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)
- It occurred to me that my vision of the fig tree and all the fat figs that withered and fell to earth might well have arisen from the profound void of an empty stomach.† (source)
- And that was a more subtle and profound matter.† (source)
- The ongoing hypoxia, coupled with my profound fatigue, exacerbated the sense of chaos and despair.† (source)
- I didn't understand, but a profound sense of loss crept over me.† (source)
- Their eyes met, and it seemed to the doctor that he knew her—that they knew each other—in some profound and certain way.† (source)
- He didn't believe this and neither did I. But he spoke convincingly, his eyes filled with spontaneous emotion, a broad and profound feeling.† (source)
- Even in the profoundest somnolence, people do not tread so deeply into the realm of sleep.† (source)
- The industry's strategy has been driven by a profound antipathy to any government regulation that might lower profits.† (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)
- 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)
- Religion plays a particularly profound role in shaping policies on population and family planning, and secular liberals and conservative Christians regularly square off.† (source)
- Ordinary thoughts from an ordinary man, but to his amazement, the student would sometimes turn toward the window in silence, as if absorbing something profound.† (source)
- The tears streamed down her face, and in an instant the mood in the room went from the joy of reunion to profound sadness, as if those two emotions were invariably linked.† (source)
- The silence was so profound that I turned back to make sure that the horses were following.† (source)
- Surely he must be experiencing a remorse sufficiently profound to summon a desire for God's mercy and forgiveness?† (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)
- 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)
- Nodding along with each verse, Cedric knows Mr. Taylor wants him to say something, something profound and scriptural.† (source)
- The deeper the river, the farther down you could be sucked, and Jasper had a profound fear of being sucked down.† (source)
- She struggled between an overwhelming desire that one would kill the other, and a profound wish that she herself could die.† (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)
- A "profound silence" was to be observed, the orders read, "and no man to quit his ranks on pain of death."† (source)
- My relief is so profound that I hardly notice my feet carve their way into my favorite row.† (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)
- Avoiding Germans they were delivering themselves into rural silences ever more profound.† (source)
- Or something profound.† (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)
- This time she wept with no other emotion than grief, profound, debilitating, humble grief, forgetting all about him.† (source)
- I hint—against the editor's advice—that surely something profound is coming, some great change.† (source)
- I shouldn't say talk to ...I should say talk at, because I certainly didn't have any profound answers.† (source)
- The thoughts passed like street signs—some profound, some vain and silly—as Max tried to contemplate a world without him.† (source)
- And now, I stand before you, Mr. President — Commander-in-Chief of the army that freed me, and tens of thousands of others — and I am filled with a profound and abiding gratitude to the American people.† (source)
- I followed his gaze out the window, feeling profound relief that I wouldn't have to stay down here with evil Shorty.† (source)
- He shook his head in amazement and suddenly had a profound admiration for Mr. Seth Hubbard.† (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)
- 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)
- I was more awed than aware, but I knew whatever I was watching was somehow both tender and profound, with an intimacy that made me invisible to them.† (source)
- It rang deeply and loud, finally fading into profound silence.† (source)
- For the losses were too many and the damage to our spirits too profound.† (source)
- Profound.† (source)
- And the 50,000 who came to watch them were moved by emotions far more profound than mere celebrity worship.† (source)
- The profound, ringing silence seemed louder to Thomas than the roar that preceded it.† (source)
- "Profound silence would brood over the valley," he wrote, "even weighing down our spirits with indefinable heaviness.† (source)
- Marcus's yellow eyes are troubled, his lack of malice so profound that I barely recognize him.† (source)
- Whatever its evolution, urban black culture has from its earliest days had a profound influence on the popular culture of white America.† (source)
- Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice."† (source)
- This was the basis of the profound crisis that shattered the scientific complacency of the Gilded Age.† (source)
- "My God," I laughed, "I thought that was the beat of profound ideas."† (source)
- His fear was far more profound.† (source)
- There's a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.† (source)
- "My friends," he began, and a hush swept through the hall, so profound that Theon could hear the wind plucking at the boards over the windows.† (source)
- To hold a newborn baby, so vulnerable and soft in my rough hands, hands that for too long had held only picks and shovels, was a profound joy.† (source)
- Now you're going to be profound.† (source)
- At the stewards' office, Howard gave his profound apologies to everyone, then took Marcela back to their lodgings at the Garden City Hotel.† (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)
- Jessica's dreams weren't usually very profound.† (source)
- Something profound, but I don't say that.† (source)
- In the degrees of exaltation the first is the stoppage of all motion in the profoundest of movements.† (source)
- Standing above her, I stated, "Of all the men I have known, Harold's had the most profound effect on me."† (source)
- 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.† (source)
- Instead, I discovered in a more profound way the human body as transitory and fragile and, by contrast, the soul as enduring.† (source)
- He raised a finger, like he always did when he thought he was getting dead profound.† (source)
- That year when Snow Flower and I went to the Temple of Gupo, our thanks were profound and deep.† (source)
- Viewing Icingdeath's splendor, enhanced by the crystalline ice blanket, Wulfgar looked upon the dragon with profound awe.† (source)
- Sometimes, in this profound sedation, he murmurs wordlessly but forlornly, mewls, and even weeps, as if adrift in a soft sad dream.† (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)
- GEORGE: The most profound indication of a social malignancy ....no sense of humor.† (source)
- Wright's poetry had a profound effect on the work of all of us at the conference.† (source)
- His face, which had always appeared smooth, seemed smoother still, in this new state; he almost reminded Helen of a monk a man at some profound leisure.† (source)
- It occurred to him that he might have come across something rather profound, something to take back to England.† (source)
- The silence at the other end was so profound that he wondered if she had hung up.† (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)
- His appearance at the museum, on a black and wet Wednesday in December a few days after the birth of his children, had come as a shock, and a profound relief, to the rest of the conservation staff.† (source)
- As the lifetime-long days passed I began to notice a profound cleansing taking place in myself as we were immersed in the peaceful Pennsylvania farm valleys.† (source)
- HAMLET, with his doublet all unbraced, no hat upon his head, his stockings fouled, ungartered and downgyved to his ankle, pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other ...and with a look so piteous, he takes her by the wrist and holds her hard, then he goes to the length of his arm, and with his other hand over his brow, falls to such perusal of her face as he would draw it.... 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)
- He had a mind that worked in cogent and predictable ways but he brought to his argument a profound integrity, a total commitment to his belief in Pig's guilt.† (source)
- That, sir, was a profound knowledge of man.† (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)
- Even the senses underwent a change so profound it filled me with distress.† (source)
- Are these the beginnings of profound changes in the Soviet state?† (source)
- A feeling of profound jealousy of the dolphin came over me and did not entirely vanish.† (source)
- What I say in reply is mingled with a yawn so cavernous and profound that my voice is like a wild beast's roar.† (source)
- You felt as though life would be different there, the air lighter and cooler, the silence more profound.† (source)
- George eyed the device with profound distrust.† (source)
- RICH No, not a bit profound; it then becomes a purely practical question of how to make him suffer sufficiently.† (source)
- He was flustered by a number of things-because of his wife's illness, the impending search, and his profound reverence for medical science and its representatives.† (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)
- She had started thinking of it as a great joke and then she had begun to see profound implications in it.† (source)
- "The King of the Snakes," intoned old Doc in his profound bass.† (source)
- But this "profound selfishness," which Emerson was so certain the speech represented, could not have entered into Daniel Webster's motivations.† (source)
- That little incident, apparently so unimportant, which would have had no effect on a person who had the faintest idea of the kind of world she lived in, had a profound effect on Mary.† (source)
- This is what is going on in Micronesia, only at a much more profound level.† (source)
- With the exception of his headache and the profound darkness, everything seemed more or less normal.† (source)
- Her scales rustled over the dry rock as she stood above him, eyes profound.† (source)
- "You mean profound!" the doctoral student said, raising a finger.† (source)
- The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.† (source)
- The engine cut off, and the silence that followed was profound.† (source)
- Still, Mae had, in recent days, thought of Francis, the profound contrast he offered to Kalden.† (source)
- She'd fade in and out of it before the profound exhaustion dragged her down into unconsciousness.† (source)
- He does this for a very simple, very profound reason: we need to be part of that communion.† (source)
- Simple physical movements and observations can have a profound effect on how we feel and think.† (source)
- From this sprang the most profound moment in Christian history.† (source)
- It was August and the humidity was profound.† (source)
- Disgust gripped Roran, as well as profound horror for Quimby's fate.† (source)
- I stared at his face in profound relief, relief that went beyond my sudden deliverance.† (source)
- —thinks that Hester the Molester is both profound and humane.† (source)
- Rachel's dark hair was not much shorter then, her gaze no less profound.† (source)
- "Thank you for your profound contribution, Tommy," said Ruth.† (source)
- Our handshake was prolonged and, for me, profound.† (source)
- But her simple and profound answer helped me to understand that ubuntu was not simply a word.† (source)
- The distance was too great, Minnie's reticence too profound.† (source)
- "The question is difficult and profound," the Librarian says.† (source)
- It took the most profound of her Bene Gesserit training to quiet her pulse and smooth her breathing.† (source)
- The collateral consequences of mass incarceration have been equally profound.† (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)
- HARRY: A centaur with profound Divination skills.† (source)
- They are often markers for a more profound meaning concealed beneath the surface.† (source)
- The feeling, a paradoxical mix of pulsing energy and profound peace, was intense and blissful.† (source)
- But there are also the profound truths, whose op-posites are equally right.† (source)
- He only shook his head, slowly, as if in disappointment most profound.† (source)
- An expression of profound sorrow engulfed the ancient Rider.† (source)
- Here endeth my profound tutelage of E'lir Kvothe!† (source)
- His death is a profound loss for science.† (source)
- Oh, wow, we're going to be profound now.† (source)
- Every fiber of her body accepted the fact that something profound had happened to it.† (source)
- The mental silence when Seth finished was profound.† (source)
- It satisfied his profound need for attention and gave him a sense of power over the detective.† (source)
- It has a profound influence on the researcher's perspective on life.† (source)
- Finally the story of his life carries a profound religious message.† (source)
- The look of shock on her face when he released her was so profound that he could not ignore it.† (source)
- The ancients possessed profound scientific wisdom.† (source)
- I want to say something profound but I can think of nothing.† (source)
- Was Kohler's loathing really this profound?† (source)
- A profound compassion for her swept through him.† (source)
- But in a much more profound, general sense than you can possibly imagine.† (source)
- The profound but strange content of Three Body had had a psychological impact on the participants.† (source)
- Rain prompts ancestral memories of the most profound sort.† (source)
- Kote gave Chronicler a look of profound disdain.† (source)
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