profundity

As attempted profundity, this doesn’t quite land, and neither does much else.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

And while Andy, Miranda, Nigel and Emily are written and performed with as much profundity as they are in the first film, each of their arcs feels like a progression, rather than simple repetition.

From Salon ● May 1, 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

She thanked critics for celebrating "this genre of horror films, that are overlooked and not seen for the profundity that they can hold".

From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2025

He did not whisper, though he did not speak overloud; the dark room which he faced repeated his voice with hollow profundity, as an unfurnished room will.

From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner

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’ve written previously, Bankman-Fried exploited the vacuity of crypto by slathering it over with what sounded like profundities but was vacuous gibberish.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 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

For in the state in which you find yourself it is very difficult, not to say impossible, to fathom all the profundities of the spirit and scrutinize all of its hiding-places.

From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Armando Palacio Vald?s