profundity
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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
And while Andy, Miranda, Nigel and Emily are written and performed with as much profundity as they are in the first film, each of their arcs feels like a progression, rather than simple repetition.
From Salon ● May 1, 2026
In “Walden,” he found constant wonder in the obvious; in “Civil Disobedience,” he mined moral profundity out of common sense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 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
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
“So I’m reluctant to utter my profundities unless I have some experience.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2020
After which, 22 men will take the field to kick a ball and each other about it, and we will extrapolate revelatory profundities based largely on the words “YES!”
From The Guardian ● Aug. 5, 2018
With so simple an aid as that of an opera-glass we penetrate still deeper into the profundities of space, and thousands more of these strange, far-away suns come into sight.
From Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments by Garrett Putman Serviss
Vocabulary lists containing profundity
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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