All 6 Uses of
profound
in
A Raisin in the Sun
- (RUTH: Almost gently, with profound understanding) You think you a woman, Bennie—but you still a little girl.
Scene 1.1 *profound = deep (of great intensity or depth)
- BENEATHA, herself profoundly disturbed, opens the door to admit a rather dramatic-looking young man with a large package) ASAGAI: Hello, AlaiyoBENEATHA: (Holding the door open and regarding him with pleasure) Hello ...(Long pause) Well—come in.†
Scene 1.2profoundly = with greatest intensity or emotional depth
- (He laughs) BENEATHA: (Turning to him, not laughing) Yes—(Her face is quizzical, profoundly disturbed) ASAGAI: (Still teasing and reaching out and taking her face in his hands and turning her profile to him) Well ....it is true that this is not so much a profile of a Hollywood queen as perhaps a queen of the Nile—(A mock dismissal of the importance of the question) But what does it matter†
Scene 1.2
- (He straightens up and moves away from his mother, walking around the room) And maybe—maybe I'll just get down on my black knees ...(He does so; RUTH and BENNIE and MAMA watch him in frozen horror) "Captain, Mistuh, Bossman—(Groveling and grinning and wringing his hands in profoundly anguished imitation of the slowwitted movie stereotype) A-hee-hee-hee†
Scene 3.1
- We feel that this is a mood struck perhaps an hour before, and it lingers now, full of the empty sound of profound disappointment.†
Scene 3.1
- (BENEATHA turns away) We called you—(There is a profound, simple groping quality in his speech)—because, well, me and my family (He looks around and shifts from one foot to the other) Well—we are very plain people ...LINDNER Yes— WALTER: I mean—I have worked as a chauffeur most of my life—and my wife here, she does domestic work in people's kitchens†
Scene 3.1
Definitions:
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(1)
(profound as in: profound idea) deep or far-reaching in intellect or consequence
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(2)
(profound as in: profound sadness) of greatest intensity or emotional depth