profundity

Example Sentences

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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

She thanked critics for celebrating "this genre of horror films, that are overlooked and not seen for the profundity that they can hold".

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2025

That also meant we could pick apart the smallest details about each scene to amplify some sense of profundity that, truth be told, probably wasn’t there in the first place.

From Salon • May 25, 2024

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