Both Uses of
profound
in
The Phantom of the Opera
- This was the moment to enter his house through the third cellar; and I resolved to take with me that poor little desperate viscount, who, at the first suggestion, accepted, with an amount of confidence in myself that touched me profoundly.†
Chpt 21 *profoundly = with greatest intensity or emotional depth
- But the stage-manager, holding his chin in the hollow of his right hand, which is the attitude of profound thought, said: "It is not the first time that Mauclair has fallen asleep in the theater.†
Chpt 20
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