"profound anguish" is a grammatically correct and perfectly usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe intense emotional suffering or pain. Example: After the sudden loss of her husband, Sarah was consumed by profound anguish and struggled to find the will to carry on with her life.
There is profound anguish and resentment among Iraqis for both Saddam's regime and now US and UK forces.
"Whatever our religious creed or political conviction, abortion on this scale can only be a source of distress and profound anguish for us all.
It added that the Cloyne Report was "disheartening confirmation that even today, despite the church's knowledge of the profound anguish of thousands of victims, its reform policies are public relations ploys, not true child protection programs".
The figures were described yesterday by Catholic church leaders as "a source of distress and profound anguish for us all", in the run-up to likely attempts by both pro- and anti-abortion campaigners to reform the current law this autumn.
All these can cause profound anguish.
Save us!" Ben-Zvi's sculpture takes you into the moment of most profound anguish.
In "Two Lovers," Phoenix played one of the most radically fractured characters in the modern cinema, bringing a profound and ardent anguish to the part of a young man, not quite so young anymore, who's coping with mental illness but knows well how much life he's missing out on and reaches desperately to try to get it.
The first captured the New York Knicks forward Larry Johnson exulting after winning a game in the National Basketball Association playoffs, but because Mr. Pfeiffer had slowed the action and deleted the other players, the basketball and the markings on the court, the continually repeating image turned into a profound expression of human anguish trapped, like the viewer's eye, in the loop.
It is impossible to watch this film and not feel the profound uncertainty and even anguish of some of the parents as they meet with doctors and therapists to discuss the choices they face.
Although he is now moving on with his own life, I live with constant anguish that my profound mistake cost him so dearly.
Her anguish was genuine and profound," said Popham, the biographer.
