The phrase "act profoundly" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone taking significant or deep actions that have a meaningful impact.
Example: "In times of crisis, leaders must act profoundly to inspire hope and resilience in their communities."
Alternatives: "act deeply" or "respond significantly".
More than one Jesuit told me that this simple act was profoundly moving.
Prime Minister Barak called the pope's visit to Yad Vashem "a climax of this historic journey of healing," and said that Israelis appreciated the pope's "noble act most profoundly".
In so doing, it forces all of us to become involved in an act that profoundly violates the conscience of many, the deliberate destruction of unwanted members of the human family still waiting to be born".
"In so doing, it forces all of us to become involved in an act that profoundly violates the conscience of many, the deliberate destruction of unwanted members of the human family still waiting to be born," said Cardinal Francis George, the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, in a written statement this week.
"This act is profoundly destabilizing for regional security and seriously undermines international non-proliferation efforts.
Survival signals received by the neutrophils, such as cytokines (e.g. GM-CSF [3]), bacterial products [4] and hypoxia [5] act to profoundly delay neutrophil lifespan in in vitro cultures, which are thought to mimic the in vivo behaviour of neutrophils.
These were very simple acts that profoundly changed the lives of the recipients.
The secular elites among the Palestinians and other Arabs, as well as the political moderates and the middle classes, have too often allowed anger, fear and a sense of helplessness to mute their protest against the horrific suicide bombings that have killed innocent civilians in the past year, even if most believed that such acts are profoundly wrong.
