He turned his gaze inward and scrutinized himself to determine what struck the deepest, darkest chords within him.

Diana Eck, a professor of comparative religion and Indian studies at Harvard University, seemed to strike the deepest chords among her listeners with a keynote address Monday.

Despite his love of the military, it was this later post that struck the deepest chord in Dimitri Constantinovich.

It struck the deepest chord in every man and woman, every child who saw it.

You strike the deepest chords of a woman's heart.

But the odd item often strikes the deepest chord.

The film's portrayal of their friendship, which deepens and changes over several years, strikes its deepest emotional chord, as Tuff metamorphoses from a friendly bully into an unabashed admirer.

It is the underlying violence and despair that strikes the deepest chord here, although Mr. Gifford always undercuts it with a cartoonish sense of the absurd.

The deepest chord in Spanish revolutionary politics is the centralista tradition which holds that central government is an emanation from the direct democracy of the popularly elected municipality.

So it seemed a bit, well, mundane, that when asked what object strikes the deepest chord with him at the moment, Mr. Koons unequivocally answered: the pot rack.