Mr. Mukasey, in announcing the appointment of an in-house prosecutor to continue the investigation, acknowledged that the process for firing the prosecutors was "haphazard, arbitrary and unprofessional, and that the way in which the Justice Department handled those removals and the resulting public controversy was profoundly lacking".
It's hard to think of news sweeter than reports about how the "rich kids of Instagram" – the preening, materialistic, status-obsessed douchebags whose self-awareness is so profoundly lacking that they have inadvertently become their own meme – are inadvertently ruining their parents' lives.
The probe also criticised the Libyan government's response to the attack, characterising it as "profoundly lacking".
Most profoundly, we lacked a governmentwide capability to integrate foreign and domestic knowledge, data operations and analysis.
Roux et al. have reported that mice lacking otoferlin were profoundly deaf and lack synaptic vesicle exocytosis in IHCs.
Mr Carswell has long agitated for a referendum on whether Britain should remain in the EU - an institution he views as being profoundly undemocratic and lacking in accountability.
In it, author Leigh Stein described the peculiarities of surviving an abusive relationship that was profoundly painful, but lacked physical violence.
But not always: it can also be profoundly destabilizing, with the lack of a predictable routine causing anxiety.
Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, the ranking Republican on the Finance Committee, called Mr. Obama's proposal "profoundly disappointing in its lack of detail," and said that tax reform must not be limited to corporate taxes alone.
And, without spoiling the moment of the assassination, Spielberg's approach to it — and to all that is crystallized in it — is profoundly revealing in its lack of profundity.
