profoundness

Example Sentences

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“This inheritance of ‘Great Russia,’ Russian culture is of a beauty and profoundness that is great,” Francis said Monday.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 4, 2023

And Noah Wolfe’s Henrik is so floridly agonized that it’s hard to see how his profoundness may yet be appealing.

From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2022

Price had not read King’s speeches or fathomed the profoundness of nonviolence, but he was a man and he stood, like most men do, in awe of men who have conquered fear.

From Washington Post • Apr. 2, 2018

Do I have to say that none of these fantasies have any pretension to profoundness?

From Time Magazine Archive

She had not felt the profoundness of that horrible philosophy which was hidden under that material activity, nor had she seen the prophet under that man of the barricades.

From The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 by Maupassant, Guy de