How to Use profundity in a Sentence
profundity
noun- Her books are a mixture of playfulness and profundity.
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There’s a profundity to her and there’s a sweetness, at times, of face.
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
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But the film works in large part because Linklater, as usual, lets profundity come to the movie rather than straining to reach it.
—Keith Phipps, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2021
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Stay open to them: There is a deep sense of excitement and profundity when that happens.
—Brian Freedman, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
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The profundity of the moment is that there is now a discourse where there wasn’t one before, and that is so powerful.
—Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2019
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Where to place Donnie Darko, a film that reached for profundity and fell on its face, offering instead the fun of pulp sci-fi?
—Adam Wilson, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
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The profundity of those words struck us as never before.
—Alix Strauss, New York Times, 19 June 2017
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Both of them have the potential to produce wines of honesty and profundity.
—Brian Freedman, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
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At the suggestion of the profundity of his and Presley’s influence, Hays goes silent.
—Brooke Mazurek, Billboard, 11 Aug. 2017
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Still, like most of the cast, he isn’t given much to do except wander in and out of Theo’s life, ruminating on the profundity of art and beauty.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Sep. 2019
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Though these themes are evident from the imagery, they are spelled out by the pseudo-profundities of the voice-over narration.
—Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 24 May 2018
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But the film’s profundity lies in its understanding that the thief, like so much of postwar Italy’s working class, is in the same boat as Antonio.
—Chris Bellamy and Kyle Fowle, EW.com, 10 May 2024
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Indeed, much of the art, while often fun to look at or play with, offers surface-level profundity, at best.
—James Tarmy, Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2018
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The studio has never dismissed its own storytelling this way—more than a dozen films insisted on the profundity of the stones.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 9 June 2021
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Like a lot of things teenagers say both in real life and on TV, the conversation teeters on a knife’s edge between profundity and hollowness.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2021
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But a last-act grasp at profundity in Ruth Greenberg’s screenplay feels unearned.
—Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
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There’s a beautiful essay by Zadie Smith that seeks to parse the difference between pleasure and joy, that (in my opinion at least) starts to give voice to the profundity of this.
—Nicole Cliffe, SELF, 26 June 2019
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There’s a profundity that’s enhanced by expressing even the not-so-pretty parts.
—Billboard Japan, Billboard, 27 Dec. 2022
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Foreign Air’s profundity — or its breadth as a multigenre band.
—Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
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The first-ever San Diego Music Awards came and went last night without a single profundity uttered.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2021
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The scene, conveying the bond between mankind and our pets, is ultimately one of great profundity.
—Malina Saval, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
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It’s a sweet and engaging movie, but one that sacrifices some profundity in order to faithfully capture the world through a boy’s eyes.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 Nov. 2021
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The effect was magical, as if dissolving the sharp borders between these works could remind you of the profundity of their common source.
—Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2023
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Simone brings a pagan heart to a Catholic soul, searching and pushing and hurting with a breathtaking profundity.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2021
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Men are allowed to float through pop culture, their half-naked time drifting atop a pool doubling as a signal of emotional profundity.
—Amanda Hess, New York Times, 3 July 2019
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In street lit, however, profundity sometimes comes at a cost.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
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That’s too bad, because humor is a bona fide literary effect, right up there with tragedy, suspense, and profundity—just as much a part of the author’s toolbox but a lot harder to fake.
—Dan Brooks, The Atlantic, 21 June 2023
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At least that is what this lifelong admirer of the human mind’s profundity fervently hopes.
—Douglas Hofstadter, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2018
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In any case, isn’t there a sense in which virtuosity, combined with nonchalance, is its own form of profundity?
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
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If Bronfman had captured the passions of youth in Concerto No. 1, Ax conjured the profundities of a more philosophical work.
—Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 3 Aug. 2019
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