We looked, with profound anxiety, for an answer - but in vain.

A new, quiet, but profound anxiety overcame him.

He shook his head with profound anxiety.

The Conservative government of the 1980s has aroused profound anxiety by its policies of centralization and executive control.

The drawings seen to reflect the artist's profound anxiety, the impossibility of finding an interior peace.

While that may have been a bit extreme, the reaction underscores the profound anxieties here about romances between Korean women and foreign men.

McKie was forced to suppress an abrupt feeling of profound anxiety.

Yet this art had long been subjected to even more profound anxieties, and others were still to come.

The relief evaporated and was replaced with a profound anxiety.

There will be few whose reaction is not profound anxiety.