Sentence examples for profoundly hard from inspiring English sources

Congo, at its extremes of suffering, is a hard place to visit, but it is also, as Ejiofor says, a profoundly hard place from which to return.

He didn't think it could offer support for the challenges he would face as an incoming freshman - and as a profoundly hard-of-hearing student.

Mr. Ashcroft's public persona made building a consensus on profoundly difficult questions all the harder.

Ruth dying in the hospice presents that almost insuperable challenge - "profoundly depressed, hard to reach even if I had known how".

Quite how this changed – but change it did, and profoundly so – is hard to say.

It is heartbreaking and profoundly disturbing – and hard-pressed nurses cannot possibly give them what they need, which is so much more than medical interventions.

Parents of small children probably know James McMullan as the creator (along with his wife, Kate) of the popular picture book "I Stink!" about the nightly rounds of a profoundly disgusting but hard-working New York City garbage truck.

This lesson, which I learned the hard way, profoundly changed the way I relate to people since then.

Those in my profession work very hard in profoundly challenging circumstances to do our best for our patients; when losses like this do occur, we are all devastated.

If the players were no longer drawn from the farmlands of both countries, they were still made of the same metal: hard, ruthless, profoundly competitive sorts for whom rugby was the ultimate expression of nationhood.

While "heartening" progress had been made over deforestation in recent years, he said "the hard and profoundly depressing fact is that rates of deforestation and degradation continue to increase".