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

It was not want of religious sentiment that precluded his feeling sincerely called to this Divine office, but the unutterable profoundness of his reverence.

From Oliver Goldsmith by Buckland, E. S. Lang