profundity

As attempted profundity, this doesn’t quite land, and neither does much else.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto let a day’s stroll linger into profundity, the twilight dimming and human connection brewing in all its possibilities.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

Part of the beauty and profundity of people’s psychedelic experiences is the ineffable—but the systems that run on Western science are hungry for hard data, replicable and reliable outcomes, and, perhaps most importantly, profit.

From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2026

Is Anima’s game supposed to imply that most mainstream audiences don’t understand the profundity tucked beneath those sparkling synths?

From Salon ● May 19, 2025

He did not whisper, though he did not speak overloud; the dark room which he faced repeated his voice with hollow profundity, as an unfurnished room will.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner

For those, to put it more generously, pulled in by the simple pleasures and crystalline profundities of the text.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

As I’ve written previously, Bankman-Fried exploited the vacuity of crypto by slathering it over with what sounded like profundities but was vacuous gibberish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2024

Instead, this Roundabout Theater Company production gets caught in a superficial cycle of wannabe profundities and emotional pantomimes.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2022

And there’s a high risk of sentimentality here: the precious Messiah child mewing his little Whitmanesque profundities at us about the unity of all life.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2021

"There is a sort of vitality about life," said Mr. Brumley, and stopped as if on the verge of profundities.

From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)