profound sense
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprofoundandsense
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profound
adjective
uk/prəˈfaʊnd/us/prəˈfaʊnd/
felt or experienced very strongly or in an ...
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sense
noun
uk/sens/us/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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(Definition ofprofoundandsensefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Unlike their dreams of the freedom and openness of western society, often what they find is aprofoundsenseof emptiness that seizes them ferociously.
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Likewise, there was noprofoundsenseof guilt.
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The responsible conservative, as we have seen, finds in history aprofoundsenseof national continuity which overrides his contemporary fears and trepidations.
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He is especially appreciated for his keen andprofoundsenseof the history of science, in particular with respect to the field of color vision.
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To take on the burden of determining who we are and what we will be is to feel inescapably alien and adrift in aprofoundsense.
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It is with aprofoundsenseof regret that we are unable to find a consensus on this most important matter.
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I do so, not lightly, but with aprofoundsenseof responsibility.
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To do so would create aprofoundsenseof injustice and denial on the part of those whom we seek to protect.
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The real issue is theprofoundsenseof disappointment in communities as they watch what goes on in the courts and the criminal justice system.
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Although the end of the review is a relief, it leaves all those who are concerned for local democracy with aprofoundsenseof disappointment.
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In all that, there is aprofoundsenseof injustice.
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This is leading to aprofoundsenseof disquiet throughout the country.
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It is hard to overestimate theprofoundsenseof injustice that overcrowded housing conditions can create in people.
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There is an instinctive, intuitive sense that these procedures are at best risky and may even be, in aprofoundsense, wrong.
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She is to-day anxiously scanning the horizon of the new era with aprofoundsenseof the responsibilities which are pre-eminently hers.
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In aprofoundsensethey may know better than we do.
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I entirely agree with what he said about theprofoundsenseof involvement of people throughout the country.
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It has given them aprofoundsenseof security.
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There is aprofoundsensein which we are not isolated.
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