All the sound-bite superficiality of the television campaign notwithstanding, a profoundly serious debate is under way in America this season.

A profoundly serious artist, Parker described his dedication this way: "Music is your whole experience, your thoughts, your wisdom.

Haitian art may be one of the world's best sellers, but it is, in this excerpt and despite its "packaging," profoundly serious and at times quite sinister.

A globetrotter who has scaled the heights of the Himalayas, Hamilton makes profoundly serious work.

The future of Jerusalem is among a host of profoundly serious issues facing the country today.

It's profoundly serious I am.

The first order of business will be the profoundly serious question of legitimacy.

Sarek gazed at her, intent, profoundly serious.

Yes, because the profoundly serious word has now developed two quite different meanings, plus a third of special interest to word mavens.

Isn't this profoundly serious music, worthy of the deepest interpretive gestures?