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

Granny Marrable was looking for something, in the penetralia of the model.

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend

She was glad to be spared the sight of such penetralia, but it would have reminded her a little less that there was no truth in him.

From The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 by James, Henry

John Ayliffe had a strong inclination to knock him down, but he restrained himself, and at length a large plated iron door admitted the two gentlemen into the penetralia of the temple.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various