Sentence examples for profound being from inspiring English sources

Freud's study has been discredited on many counts, the most profound being his theory that the "psychical genesis of homosexuality" lies in a boy's erotic attachment to a too-loving mother.

Jensen's crusade has had lasting effects on the province, the most profound being her impact on the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission, which was founded in 1996.

Jensen's crusade has had lasting effects on the province, the most profound being her impact on the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission, which was founded in 1996, and its precursor, the Alberta Liquor Control Board.

But too much of her writing is overwrought, and eventually an uneasy question arises in the mind of the reader: Is something profound being conveyed here or is this an extended, citation-rich blurring of something inherently clear — i.e., humans mess things up and it's sad and I wish we could do something to change all that?

Non-fiction writers have many advantages over fiction writers: the most profound being, as Richard Holmes said when he was writing his biography of the poet Shelley, "At least I always have the man".

Various major body changes may precede the emission of gametes, the two most profound being epitoky (maturation into a modified, fertile form) and stolonization (the development of stemlike growths).

Something profound is lost".

Profound is a pet word.

"Something profound is at work here," he says.

DS: Sometimes profound is very simple.

But just as profound is what it does for us.