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- Along with everyone else in the squadron, he lived in profound awe and reverence of the majestic, white-haired major with craggy face and Jehovean bearing, who came back from Rome finally with an injured eye inside a new celluloid eye patch and smashed his whole Glorious Crusade to bits with a single stroke.†
Chpt 11
- Major — de Coverley was only a major, even though he was ages older than Colonel Cathcart; at the same time, so many other people treated Major — de Coverley with such profound and fearful veneration that Colonel Cathcart had a hunch they might know something.†
Chpt 21
- No. Milo looked at Yossarian with profound emotion.†
Chpt 22 *
- Nately was profoundly upset by his seedy and disreputable appearance, and whenever he came to the apartment he wished that the corrupt, immoral old man would put on a clean Brooks Brothers shirt, shave, comb his hair, wear a tweed jacket, and grow a dapper white mustache so that Nately would not have to suffer such confusing shame each time he looked at him and was reminded of his father.†
Chpt 23 *
- Doc Daneeka tended each moaning man that night with the same glum and profound and introverted grief he showed at the airfield the day of the Avignon mission when Yossarian climbed down the few steps of his plane naked, in a state of utter shock, with Snowden smeared abundantly all over his bare heels and toes, knees, arms and fingers, and pointed inside wordlessly toward where the young radio-gunner lay freezing to death on the floor beside the still younger tail-gunner who kept…†
Chpt 24
- This time she wept with no other emotion than grief, profound, debilitating, humble grief, forgetting all about him.†
Chpt 38
- 'Yossarian, I'm proud of you,' he exclaimed with profound emotion.†
Chpt 39
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