It was a profound personal tragedy, however, which turned him from that course and helped to make him a man feared by half the world.

The anguish continues to overwhelm... One can be too deeply affected by profound tragedy to ever be whole again".

It was not grief or even sadness that swayed him, but a deep, philosophical sense of the profound tragedy of life.

Yet Housing Works was born out of profound tragedy.

On the other hand, he calls it "a profound tragedy" that we don't relax our immigration restrictions to let in hundreds of thousands of eastern Europeans.

The monumental social upheavals and the profound tragedies of the 1960's left the country wounded and emotionally exhausted.

It was, she said, "the most profound tragedy of my life."

At this point there is no need of a major crisis or a profound tragedy to precipitate doubt.

We extend our deepest sympathy to the Hovnanian family at this time of profound tragedy.

Mr President, what has happened in recent years in Kosovo is a profound tragedy.