profundity

How To Use profundity In A Sentence

• Hmm... a bit of Googling produces this short book review by Charles Solomon, which has the line: "As an essayist, Didion lacks the hyaline profundity of Susan Sontag or the classical erudition of Marguerite Yourcenar ... Making Light: Open thread 136
• The very simplicity belies the profundity of his ideals, for each title reflects a much deeper insight into a given problem while outlining the mode of operation to be employed.
• Chapters that lack such profundity seem aimless, padding perhaps. Times, Sunday Times
• Everything is done with exaggerated slowness, which seems a rather cheap way of adding profundity to some fairly simplistic ideas about war not being a very good thing.
• The anxiety that hovers over Parry is the extent of his musical profundity and insight.
• With all their profundity and gravitas, they have striven hard to sanitize all abusage in application yet, pitiably, they seemed to have been overwhelmed by the brutality of the crisis Undefined
• & odq; I had noticed that she was much changed, & cdq; Mr. Wentworth declared, in a tone whose unexpressive, unimpassioned quality appeared to Felix to reveal a profundity of opposition. & odq; It may be that she is only becoming what you call a charming woman. &cdq; The Europeans
• In their urge to smirk and wink, they make it impossible for the profundity of any work in the show to shine through. Times, Sunday Times
• What profundity lightly carried, and what humour and humanity! The Times Literary Supplement
• The result turned out to be so hard to understand that the novel acquired an aura of profundity by virtue of its sheer incomprehensibility.