"profoundly evil" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a person, behavior, or situation that is deeply, morally wrong. For example, "The dictator's cruel policies were profoundly evil."
"The crimes committed against them by priests and brothers are profoundly evil and completely repugnant to me," the statement said.
The crimes committed against them by priests and brothers are profoundly evil and completely repugnant to me," he said.
The Victorian worthies had not just been hypocrites, they had bequeathed to Strachey's generation the whole "profoundly evil" system "by which it is sought to settle international disputes by force".
Filmmakers, I think, are going to find it increasingly difficult to imagine profoundly evil androids, because over the years a fairly significant segment of the audience has come to identify with machines like the Terminator: programmed for specific tasks, easily replaceable and hard-wired with the simple wisdom of servitude -- "never stop fighting".
I don't normally go repeatedly to the same place, but after I went in March, you know, I felt there is really something profoundly evil going on that you have a government trying to wipe out a people, and that the world has had a lot of experience with genocide, and that this time there is something we can do to block it if we just kind of jump up and down and point it out.
There is, however, none of her scholarly sense of ritual magic's moral complexity in The Blair Witch Project, the stunningly effective, lower-than-low-budget movie by the young guerrilla directors Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Myrick which has taken America by storm: Blair Witch presents witchcraft as a virile and profoundly contemporary evil.
Nearing his 10th decade, profoundly conscious of evil, he retains a durable faith that "to be a man and live among men is miraculous".
Many are profoundly unlikable, some genuinely evil.
But what makes "Mystic River" unusual is that the child molesters are dispatched early on and the remainder of the film explores the consequences for people who are not so much evil as profoundly damaged, culminating in a misplaced act of vigilantism that is unique in Mr. Eastwood's films.
Theirs was the profoundly surprising defiance of evil enabled by the survival of judgment.
