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 same "sesame" opened to him the coulisse of the Opera and the penetralia of the Fran�ais.

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Lever, Charles James

Ille procul trepido lumine signat humum: It gravis hic, et in alta ferox penetralia tendit.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

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