"It was a very good dream," Data said with profound seriousness.

He spoke with profound seriousness, and I felt a twinge of pity for him.

Before a generally topless audience and a modestly genitalia-flaunting panel, the matter was explored with a seriousness so profound that it became unconsciously hilarious.

But before he could produce the note, the Father's expression changed to one of profound seriousness.

It evidently took Lamb's whimsical suggestion, that if Napoleon were at Hampton the people might some day eject the Brunswick in his favor, in profound seriousness.

Ned seemed to reveal a more profound seriousness beneath the glittering surface of his charm, his wit.

This profound seriousness cannot be achieved by confronting purely formal problems, no matter how difficult, because they are generated exclusively by our intelligence, not by the total organic structure of our being.

He then turned and faced Richard with a look of the most profound seriousness on his face.

The ultimate aim of all love affairs ... is more important than all other aims in man's life; and therefore it is quite worthy of the profound seriousness with which everyone pursues it.

He said this with an air of profound seriousness, and I felt inexpressibly shocked.