How to Use deep structure in a Sentence

deep structure

noun
  • Safran describes the show’s deep structure as a comedy of manners.
    New York Times, 7 July 2021
  • Best all around bet, though, continues to be easing along over deep structure with a spider-rigged spread of live minnows a few feet off bottom.
    Frank Sargeant, AL.com, 15 Dec. 2017
  • In stitching so many of these plays together, Mabou Mines uncovers the deep structures underlying them: the grief and the guilt, the disgust and the difficult love.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Yet in its deep structure, the show is about her own dignity and the difficulty of being both a discerning mind and a desiring body.
    Ben Brantley, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The full faith and credit of the United States rest not on this or that grudgingly passed statute, but on a much deeper structure of consensus and cooperation, both political and social.
    Charles Lane, Alaska Dispatch News, 1 Sep. 2017
  • As a portrait of the deepest structures of American violence, Loaded is an indispensable book.
    Patrick Blanchfield, New Republic, 11 Dec. 2017
  • But none of those applications get to the deep structure of biology—likely a beacon of future creativity.
    Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Also missing was money for replacement of the Industrial Canal lock at the Mississippi River with a deeper structure.
    Mark Schleifstein, NOLA.com, 12 Feb. 2018
  • How can diversity and inclusion become an enterprise that extends past token gestures into the deep structure of the institution?
    New York Times, 21 May 2021
  • One thing this shows is that not every polynomial could be a chromatic polynomial: There is a deeper structure imposed on chromatic polynomials by their connections to graphs.
    Quanta Magazine, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Over the generations, physicists have oscillated between self-assurance and skepticism, periodically giving up on ever finding the deep structure of nature and downgrading physics to the search for scraps of useful knowledge.
    George Musser, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Multiplicative sequences are related to deep structures in number theory.
    Quanta Magazine, 1 Oct. 2015

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