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While some of these ideas may be profoundly relatable — and thus, personally meaningful — that doesn’t make the observations or their executions within Schoenbrun’s feeble film profound in and of themselves.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
We may be under-modeling one of the most profound possibilities in front of us: that people live significantly longer, healthier and more active lives than prior generations imagined.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Michael says that James, now 34, has "never developed the capacity to engage with the world. That's the source of profound sadness to his family and a loss to himself."
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
The naughty language can’t cover up the lack of a more profound explanation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
Unfortunately, their argument depends on a profound misunderstanding of Hobbes’s text.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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It also results in the profounder album of the two.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 4, 2018
“And it’s having a much profounder effect than I conceived could happen.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2011
He deserves such tributes, but there is a profounder, truer explanation for the wonder he excites.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2010
Or, as Frank notes while dealing with a particularly difficult couple in Independence Day, “a profounder text runs beneath all realty decisions.”
From Newsweek
Secrecy is most generally adopted to cover objectionable designs; and, the profounder the former is, the more objectionable are the latter.
From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger
“Archangel” is the most towering presence in “Charles Ray: Figure Ground,” opening this weekend, which introduces a new generation to America’s profoundest and most challenging sculptor — as well as its slowest.
From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2022
David Bowman would turn out to one of the most isolated people I’ve ever known—isolated on the profoundest levels by a certain traumatic displacement from ordinary human consolation.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 2, 2019
Ruth Rendell’s favorite Austen is also “Mansfield Park,” which she calls “the fun-less one, the profoundest, the most didactic, but nevertheless the greatest.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 2, 2015
And it is the new sense of the emergent individual that I think may be the profoundest change of all.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2013
I watched with the profoundest satisfaction as five days of grime ran down my legs and out the drainhole, and noticed with astonished gratitude that my body had taken on a noticeably svelter profile.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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