How to Use profundity in a Sentence

profundity

noun

• Her books are a mixture of playfulness and profundity.
• There’s a profundity to her and there’s a sweetness, at times, of face.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
• 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
• Stay open to them: There is a deep sense of excitement and profundity when that happens.
  — Brian Freedman, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The profundity of those words struck us as never before.
  — Alix Strauss, New York Times, 19 June 2017
• Both of them have the potential to produce wines of honesty and profundity.
  — Brian Freedman, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
• At the suggestion of the profundity of his and Presley’s influence, Hays goes silent.
  — Brooke Mazurek, Billboard, 11 Aug. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But a last-act grasp at profundity in Ruth Greenberg’s screenplay feels unearned.
  — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
• 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
• There’s a profundity that’s enhanced by expressing even the not-so-pretty parts.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 27 Dec. 2022
• Foreign Air’s profundity — or its breadth as a multigenre band.
  — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
• The first-ever San Diego Music Awards came and went last night without a single profundity uttered.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2021
• The scene, conveying the bond between mankind and our pets, is ultimately one of great profundity.
  — Malina Saval, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In street lit, however, profundity sometimes comes at a cost.
  — Jason Parham, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
• 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
• At least that is what this lifelong admirer of the human mind’s profundity fervently hopes.
  — Douglas Hofstadter, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2018
• 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
• 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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