It would seem that the last thing President Bush needs as he seeks re-election next year is anything that reopens the profound wounds from the Florida presidential recount of 2000.
Robert Badinter, a senator and former president of the constitutional council, wrote in Le Monde that the changes were "a lost occasion, not for the Socialists, but for the republic," adding, "Our institutions suffer from a profound wound: the hyperpower of the president".
When I see those who have been dispensed into the pit of hell return home practically destroyed, I am desperate for ways to help heal these profound wounds.
"It was a profound, deep, wounding scandal for the country, Britain's black community and for the government, and a year on it is clear that the government has certainly not come even to recognising the scale of that wound and seeking to heal it.
At one stage he declares of his fellow Indians: "We want to see ourselves depicted as soulful, sensitive, profound, valorous, wounded, tolerant and funny beings.
Wounded, wounded, wounded!
While her doctors say that the girl, Cecilia Cichan, is recovering well from serious physical injuries, experts say the trauma is all but certain to inflict profound emotional wounds that will linger long after her body is whole again.
His seamed neck and knotted back reveal the awful signs of his wounding; although, the ones in his head may be more profound.
It's a perennially moving play that justifies Rattigan's reluctance, as a product of his time and class, to resist being labelled a gay dramatist: what really matters is his profound understanding of the wounded heart.
A prickly bundle of brilliance, wounded ego, profound (some would say fanatical) spiritual faith and implacable energy, Kearns in many ways related better to machines than to human beings.
