profundity

How To Use profundity In A Sentence

• Hmm... a bit of Googling produces this short book review by Charles Solomon, which has the line: "As an essayist, Didion lacks the hyaline profundity of Susan Sontag or the classical erudition of Marguerite Yourcenar ... Making Light: Open thread 136
• Hellenism, which is the principle pre-eminently of intellectual light (our modern culture may have more colour, the medieval spirit greater heat and profundity, but Hellenism is pre-eminent for light), has always been most effectively conceived by those who have crept into it out of an intellectual world in which the sombre elements predominate. The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry
• The profundity of this book is achieved with breathtaking lightness.
• ‘The Deep Blue Sea’ attempts profundity but doesn't quite deliver.
• Nobody said anything of absolute total marvellousness and profundity, but we were all ourselves at our best, and we had a thoroughly good time.
• The cartoon version lacks the profundity of the original text.
• Nor is this a work of lyrical profundity. Times, Sunday Times
• Well, I like to juxtapose that with the gaga-profundity from the Matrix, where the little Buddha-nature kid bending the spoons with mind power says to Neo, "There is no spoon. Intertribal: comprehensive review of way too many movies
• The moments of emotional profundity here are golden and will suffice.
• For things become geometrical by the accession of magnitude to quantity; solid, by the accession of profundity to magnitude; astronomical, by the accession of motion to solidity; harmonical, by the accession of sound to motion. Essays and Miscellanies