Of course, all Paris was not so stupid, but the unthinking mass, accustomed to playing the sounding board to the tune of the journalists, responding first to one sentiment and then to its opposite, was stirred profoundly by these romantic tales of horror.

Dorothy Sayers may never have met Tolkien, though she knew Charles Williams and had been profoundly stirred, as a translator of Dante, by his Figure of Beatrice (1943).

She had never been more profoundly stirred by the wisdom of her Lord.

He was stirred profoundly by the passing glimpse at the secret, and he was again caught up in the vision of sunlit spaces and starry voids - until it came to him that it was very quiet, and he saw Ruth regarding him with an amused expression and a smile in her eyes.

When she learned of her father's journey, Ms. Tsuai was profoundly stirred.

Morrison was profoundly stirred by the misery, the poverty, and the unnecessary suffering of the Chinese poor.

All Greece was then profoundly stirred by a faint gleam of the dawn of liberty, and shaken by a suppressed agitation.

Rughalt was profoundly stirred.