Profoundly

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"Profoundly" in a Sentence (17 examples)

I was profoundly disturbed by this news.

Perception is based, to a very large extent, on conceptual models - which are always inadequate, often incomplete and sometimes profoundly wrong.

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

Tom sighed profoundly.

This book profoundly impressed me.

We cast this message into the cosmos. It is likely to survive a billion years into our future, when our civilization is profoundly altered and the surface of the Earth may be vastly changed.

The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial television and could not exist in its present form without it.

Tom slept profoundly.

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He thought and wrote profoundly.

More profoundly, it has shaken our most fundamental assumptions.

From his childhood, she was profoundly troubled.

Leo was sleeping profoundly, and on the whole I thought it wise not to wake him.

In fact, the influence of signage in a certain area may exist anywhere on a continuum from profoundly effective to utterly trivial or completely insignificant, irrespective of the intent motivating the signs.

In 1997, Turkheimer, perhaps the preëminent behavior geneticist of his generation, published a short political meditation called “The Search for a Psychometric Left,” in which he called upon his fellow-liberals to accept that they had nothing to fear from genes. He proposed that “a psychometric left would recognize that human ability, individual differences in human ability, measures of human ability, and genetic influences on human ability are all real but profoundly complex, too complex for the imposition of biogenetic or political schemata.)

Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney said Monday if the Supreme Court does not resolve the issue of presidential immunity “quickly and decisively,” it will have a “profoundly negative impact” on the country.

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