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

Yet at such an hour it will now be necessary to enter its penetralia.

From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by Ainsworth, W. Harrison

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

From A Romance in Transit by Lynde, Francis

He dropped his own name, assumed the pose of a grand dame familiar with the inner penetralia and sacred secrets of the exclusive circle of the American Colony in Paris.

From Through Our Unknown Southwest by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)