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profundity

[pruh-fuhn-di-tee] / prəˈfʌn dɪ ti /


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Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto let a day’s stroll linger into profundity, the twilight dimming and human connection brewing in all its possibilities.

From Los Angeles Times May 22, 2026

“Mother Mary” is as hair-raising as it is eyebrow-raising, all spectral senselessness until, out of nowhere, the eeriness gives way to a startling profundity as the film explores remorse with biblical repercussions.

From Salon Apr. 24, 2026

In “Walden,” he found constant wonder in the obvious; in “Civil Disobedience,” he mined moral profundity out of common sense.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 26, 2026

Part of the beauty and profundity of people’s psychedelic experiences is the ineffable—but the systems that run on Western science are hungry for hard data, replicable and reliable outcomes, and, perhaps most importantly, profit.

From Slate Jan. 30, 2026

Her mind traveled crooked streets and aimless goat paths, arriving sometimes at profundity, other times at the revelations of a three-year-old.

From "Song of Solomon" by Toni Morrison

For those, to put it more generously, pulled in by the simple pleasures and crystalline profundities of the text.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

As I wrote last year, Bankman-Fried exploited the vacuity of crypto by slathering it over with what sounded like profundities but were vacuous at their core.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 27, 2024

The book’s prose passages are interspersed with sections laid out as blank verse, inadvertently demonstrating that mundane reflections aren’t transformed into profundities merely by centring them on the page and inserting a few line breaks.

From The Guardian Jan. 12, 2019

But no one comes to a Duran Duran show for profundities.

From New York Times Apr. 13, 2016

Like Wagner, Baudelaire painted in his sultry music the profundities of abysms, the vastness of space.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Charles Baudelaire




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