Example sentences for: profundity

How can you use “profundity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That was the perplexed comment that greeted my first halting efforts to explain the Clinton scandal to my children, ages 6 and 9. I promptly began quoting the profundity to my friends and reflecting indignantly, along with the rest of America, on what a poor role model the overgrown youth in the White House is for our youth.

  • "The profundity of an artist such as we won't see again for some time" (Sarah Kaufman, the Washington Post ). Critics forgive his use of goofy gimmicks--he improvises a dance to his own heartbeat, which is amplified by a device affixed to his chest--focusing instead on the credibility he has given modern dance, having switched from classical ballet in midcareer.

  • It is no criticism of Solomon's lively and fascinating book that she has not sought to explain how an array of the most ordinary objects--a cordial glass, a bubble pipe, an egg, some glass disks, a map--should release powers of evocation in one another and quiver into an image that overcomes the personal and the biographical to attain universality, profundity, beauty, and truth.

  • And are Kinsky's rippling, Philip Glass-like progressions meant to suggest profundity or empty pretentiousness?

  • He speaks, says the New York Times ' Stephen Holden, in "a hushed, gee-whiz semi-whisper that's meant to convey profundity but ...


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