penetralia

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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

Clearly the Sardanapalus who painted his face and carded purple wool in the penetralia of his seraglio does not bear even a traditional resemblance to Ašur-bāni-apli the Conqueror.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

I hated the sound that saluted me morning, noon, and night; I shrank from it ever unaccustomed, for the penetralia of my brain could never be rendered less susceptible by piercing and searching its recesses.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth

That ended it, and he was no nearer the penetralia of car Naught-fifty than before.

From A Romance in Transit by Lynde, Francis