penetralia

Example Sentences

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Like Kahn’s buildings, too, Lesser’s book has its penetralia, core elements to which one is only gradually led.

From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2017

The book is littered with show-off phrases such as "alembicated piety" and "the penetralia of one's self-regard."

From Time Magazine Archive

The sentiment, at the same time, sounds oddly, as it issues from the penetralia of a multitudinous club.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various

My legation button carried me through the guard, and I found an excellent place under a cardinal's wing, in the penetralia within the railing of the altar.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker

From beyond these, from the penetralia of kitchen and pantry, came faint indications of plenty and the spit.

From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.