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.

  • By exuding profundity, Bradley shames those who wonder what it means to "feel rich inside," and why this is more important than rising incomes and declining unemployment.

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

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


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