Yet there is widespread, profound skepticism about the President's broader goal of establishing important, lasting economic links with Africa.

"Half the people have pulled out of the political process," he said, "and the democratic process itself is viewed with profound skepticism."

Whatever the perspective from the region's elites, the view from the street is imbued with a profound skepticism.

One judge, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that "profound skepticism" about the foundation's financial operations remained among the members following a 90-minute question-and-answer session.

Underlying this intuition was a profound skepticism about human nature - one that the intervening 200 years have served only to validate.

He listened to some of those stories with a profound skepticism.

This explains the profound skepticism it always felt towards the innovations that often exploited peripheral possibilities of visual art and were generally overestimated.

With his new attention had come a profound and weary skepticism.

Levine's working experience lent his poetry a profound skepticism in regard to conventional American ideals.

Changes Are Limited But there is also a profound skepticism.