penetralia
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Like Kahn’s buildings, too, Lesser’s book has its penetralia, core elements to which one is only gradually led.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2017
The book is littered with show-off phrases such as "alembicated piety" and "the penetralia of one's self-regard."
From Time Magazine Archive
The worthy people thereupon declared that the penetralia had not been properly examined and desired permission to carry out a searching inspection themselves.
From Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Sir C. E. (Charles Edward) Callwell
Clearly the Sardanapalus who painted his face and carded purple wool in the penetralia of his seraglio does not bear even a traditional resemblance to Ašur-bāni-apli the Conqueror.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
He wanted to hear his own voice applauding the things that were leaping, singing, shouting in the penetralia of his being.
From The Cottage of Delight A Novel by Will N. (William Nathaniel) Harben
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