What might be their most profound worry?
This is a place, on today's evidence, where the most profound worry in life is whether a tray of mini-mousses will hold firm on an unseasonably hot day.
But if in displacing infanticide it does some good, selective abortion still represents discrimination against girls of a particularly profound sort.This worries the Chinese: the theme of discrimination dominated a conference held in September by Peng Peiyun, head of the state Family Planning Commission, to ruminate on the imbalance.
The influence of the more recent "Star Wars" installments is more profound, and it worries me.
If the next Ukip leader possesses the seriousness that Mr Farage ultimately lacked, the consequences could be profound and deeply worrying.
In an hourlong speech that touched on many policies outside his purview, like paid maternity leave and gun control, the secretary said the persistent achievement gap between white and minority students is one of the nation's profound problems, and worried that a "growing digital divide" was widening the gulf.
For the last few weeks, we've been awash in worries about profound problems in foreign affairs, but now we're going domestic again.
"It's not that their worries were more profound, but they are just worrying more often about more things," says Penney.
But many white working-class Americans have different, even opposing worries, including a profound sense of economic and cultural marginalization.
Want to become a government codebreaker, but worried that your profound lack of technological nous will hold you back?
