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She is a profound thinker.

It's a profound book

She has a profound mind.

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) Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres, 1991

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.  (source) Lois Lowry, The Giver, 1993

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.  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

You're the darling of the royalists, my unprofound fellow, and you'd force the average citizen to live in a nation where privacy is obsolete, free thought suspended by censorship, the rich get richer, and for the poorest among us the beginnings of potential life itself may well have to be abandoned in order to survive.†  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Ultimatum, 1990

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) Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, 2011

Sounds always affected me profoundly and the principal's voice was one of my favorites.  (source) Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969

Especially to state something as nonprofound as that.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

Or face the profoundest consequences.†  (source) Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, 2016

That's very profound.  (source) Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game, 1978

He remembered how he thought, 'The scion, the heir, the apparent (though not obvious)' and how he heard Miss Goldfield's feet and saw the light of the torch approaching along the upper hall and how she came and passed him, how she stumbled a little and caught herself and looked full at him as if she had never seen him before—the eyes wide and unseeing like a sleepwalker's, the face which had always been tallow-hued now possessing some still profounder, some almost unbearable, quality of bloodlessness—and he thought, 'What?†  (source) William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!, 1936

It was a profound spiritual experience that changed her life.

There was a moment of silence so profound that it seemed the city was asleep.  (source) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, 1988

Resting in the shade and the stillness, Louie felt profound peace.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

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.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

The disquietude he felt on Katahdin's granite heights inspired some of his most powerful writing and profoundly colored the way he thought thereafter about the earth in its coarse, undomesticated state.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Her heart melted away in tears; her profoundest spirit sent forth a moaning voice, low, gentle, but inexpressibly sad.  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables, 1851

Fireflies went about with their tiny green lamps, which only made the darkness more profound.  (source) Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart, 1958

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.  (source) Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting, 1975

made a profound decision  (source) Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie, 1997

But that will never happen again, and I am so very profoundly sorry.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

After making two circuits of the walk every trace of energy was as usual completely used up, and as I drove myself on all my scattered aches found their usual way to a profound seat of pain in my side.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

I know Mother would profoundly disapprove of the cleavage the dress enables me to have.  (source) Kathryn Stockett, The Help, 2009

There was silence so profound, Hannah wondered if she had gone deaf.  (source) Jane Yolen, The Devil's Arithmetic, 1988