Apple may have talked about how Siri was improved with every new iteration of a device in one of its hardware lines, but the profound inadequacy of those improvements was laid bare as soon as Alexa and the Assistant appeared on the scene.
When they fail they experience a profound feeling of inadequacy and rejection.
The posturing and pomposity are a shield or a defense against feelings of profound and frightening inadequacy.
As our Facebook friends post status updates on their new jobs, promotions, and sports cars, we are left to recalibrate our own definition of success and, in the process, invite a profound sense of inadequacy into our lives.
Insecure overachievers are exceptionally capable and fiercely ambitious, yet driven by a profound sense of their own inadequacy.
Some of them felt a profound sense of guilt or inadequacy in the face of the divine.
At the heart of it is insecurity, and indeed, elite professional organizations deliberately set out to identify and recruit "insecure overachievers". Insecure overachievers are exceptionally capable and fiercely ambitious, yet are driven by a profound sense of their own inadequacy.
The outsider heroine with an inferiority complex but a fighting spirit is a chick-lit standard, and Bank is capable of making self-deprecation into an art form; but again, Sophie's sense of inadequacy is more profound.
Senator Bill Frist of Tennessee, a co-chairman of the platform committee, argued that Medicare was in profound need of modernization, in part because of the inadequacy of its benefit package, which lacks prescription drug coverage.
Thus a surprisingly large proportion, 11/25 (44%) of all patients with transposition of the great arteries left hospital undiagnosed in other referring regions, testifying to the inadequacy of physical examination alone in detecting even profound arterial desaturation in newborn babies.
One finds oneself tempted toward learned-sounding inadequacies like: His work combines the elegance of mathematical proof with the emotionally profound wit of Dostoyevsky.
