Example sentences for: profoundly

How can you use “profoundly” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Praise goes to Georges Du Fresne, the child actor "who seems, in some prodigious way, to understand" his character (Stanley Kauffmann, the New Republic ). Dissenting, the Wall Street Journal 's Joe Morgenstern says the movie is cloying, "cheerful nonsense" and that its creators don't realize that "this kid is profoundly troubled."

  • It's profoundly conservative.

  • Most profoundly, the mystery concerns the historical appearance since the big bang of connected structures of matter, energy, and processes by which an increasing diversity of kinds of matter, sources of energy, and types of processes come into existence in a biosphere, or in the universe itself.

  • Professor David Daiches of Edinburgh leads off with a splendid introduction on Boswell's ambiguities, writing about the biography that “the subject understood the biographer more profoundly than the biographer understood the subject.”

  • Burroughs was the George Lucas of his day, creating in Tarzan and other characters beings as profoundly mythical--and as stereotypically superficial--as Darth Vader.


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