profundity

Some of the biggest jokers count on their fans’ defiant loyalty more than on the quality, profundity and durability of the jokes they’re telling.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 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

“Silent Friend” is a film not of environmentalist pleading but of ecological profundity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 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 rocked back and forth on his heavy heels, his face wise with profundity.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

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 wrote last year, Bankman-Fried exploited the vacuity of crypto by slathering it over with what sounded like profundities but were vacuous at their core.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 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

The book’s prose passages are interspersed with sections laid out as blank verse, inadvertently demonstrating that mundane reflections aren’t transformed into profundities merely by centring them on the page and inserting a few line breaks.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2019

The mental profundities of the moujik exhale sweetness and faith like mystic flowers opening under the breath of the Holy Spirit.

From Modern Saints and Seers by Marrett, Evan