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profound

showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth the differences are profound a profound insight a profound book a profound mind profound contempt profound regret of the greatest intensity; complete a profound silence a state of profound shock (= unfathomed, unplumbed, unsounded) situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed the profound depths of the sea the dark unfathomed caves of ocean — Thomas Gray unplumbed depths of the sea remote and unsounded caverns coming from deep within one a profound sigh (= fundamental) far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something the fundamental revolution in human values that has occurred the book underwent fundamental changes committed the fundamental error of confusing spending with extravagance profound social changes (= heavy, sound, wakeless) (of sleep) deep and complete a heavy sleep fell into a profound sleep a sound sleeper deep wakeless sleep

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Simple sentences

Freud's insights into human behavior led to him being honored as a profound thinker.
That made a profound impression on me.
I felt profound reverence for the courageous mother.
The exhibition offers profound insights into ancient civilization.
Your questions are getting progressively more profound.
Anna Freud had a profound influence on Hollywood.
Tom couldn't shake the feeling that something profound was about to happen.
She fell into a profound sleep.
Profound ignorance is what is behind a dogmatic tone.
I felt afraid of being left alone, and for three whole days I wandered about the town in profound dejection, not knowing what to do with myself.
I had a profound experience.
That child fell into a profound sleep.
A nudnik who believes he's profound is even worse than just a plain nudnik.
It had a profound effect on me.
Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.
Tom wrote a very profound report.

Movie subtitles

It would be really fun if we could find an alien that could, you know, send me an email or twitter or whatever, all day long, but the profound question is life or nonlife.
Aided by an almost superhuman logic, he used his profound knowledge of hypnosis to commit crimes of a magnitude previously deemed impossible.
Profound but inarticulate.
She has read your books and has a profound admiration for you.
Well, Ann, of all the profound understatements.
Of course, since then, many of our most profound scientists. have come to believe that these rays are actually the very source of life itself.
For my father, I feel profound humiliation.
Or am I getting a bit profound?
It's profound.
Craig, if you go now, you'll be making a profound mistake.
And thrice his head thus waving up and down. he raised a sigh so piteous and profound as it did seem to shatter all his bulk and end his being.
They always make profound observations they've overheard.
My profound Cousin Aeneas.
Profound, Marion.
Scruples too profound are really out of place.
But, Doctor, please reflect on the profound aspects of the matter and consider the vital points of my thesis.
You have a profound contempt for facts.
It's profound. Yes, austere.
The good Doctor maintains a profound silence.
For the sake of latecomers, I may say that I have placed this subject under profound hypnosis.
This lack of feeling is the one infallible test of profound hypnosis.
There's just one infallible test for profound hypnosis.
Nothing else as profound as that.
But what about the answers to all those profound questions you have been asking yourself?
Your Majesty, may offer my profound apologies?
My profound compliments.
I ask profound apology in my house.
It seems this expert Dr. Egelhoffer, the profound thinker from New York, was giving Williams a final sanity test in the sheriff's office.
A profound observation. Don't tell me we're going to discuss the question of God and souls with soup.
That's incredibly profound!
Oh, now there's a profound statement.
A profound truth.
The prisoner has endured three days of profound mental agony and shock.
It's actually quite profound, some of it.
For some kinds of success you need luck but. for some other kinds that are more profound.
Yes, a profound sense of fatigue. feeling of emptiness followed.
What a fantastic show, motherhood is so profound.
At this moment, all its senses are mobilized by a profound instinct of defense.

News and current affairs

But a much more profound re-think is needed.
But, without further profound political and economic integration - which may not end up including all current eurozone members - the euro may not make it even to the end of this decade.
We are skeptical about unfettered individualism because of our awareness of man's sins, but also because of our profound awareness of the historical defects and aberrations in Germany's 20 th century history.
Either way, the threat of a profound financial crisis is high.
That hardly seems a rational policy for a continent in profound transition.
But the new unilateralism was based on a profound misunderstanding of the nature of power in world politics.
America's unwillingness to take the lead on environmental issues may some day be regarded as one of the country's most profound political failures.
America's fiscal crisis is profound, and it is not just about numbers.
How this debate sorts itself out will have profound consequences for how America conducts itself in the world.
The consequences were most profound in what were the countries of the Soviet empire, but they extended to other regions as well.
The consequences for American society are profound, troubling, and a warning to the world - though it probably comes far too late to be heeded.
The editor-in-chief and deputy editor-in-chief were sacked, but the open questioning of the legitimacy of the government's authority to regulate journalism is bound to have a profound impact.
This was a profound mistake: there were no such market forces.
The US has made profound missteps recently.
Today's explosion of conspiracy theories has been stoked by the same conditions that drove their acceptance in the past: rapid social change and profound economic uncertainty.
Profound reform of the welfare state and building a modern tax administration system requires time.
The core theory with which emerging feminists in more traditional and religious societies are working is far different from that of Western feminism - and in some ways far more profound and humane.
But only profound reforms of traditional authority can pave the way towards freedom and growth.
Now, like Jelinek, whose work was largely unknown to non-German readers until she won the Nobel, Alexievich is finally being recognized for her profound impact.
Only the German government and the ECB can open the door to this subtle but profound reform of the euro's fundamental underpinnings.
Second, he would accompany this with an explicit set of social policies - and here the potential differences are profound - that addresses the need for equitable burden-sharing.
But it suffers from the major global players' profound skepticism, with the US, Russia, and, for that matter, the EU shown no real enthusiasm for it.

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