How to Use profundity in a Sentence

profundity

noun
  • Her books are a mixture of playfulness and profundity.
  • From beach books to profundity, long-form fiction opened minds and shrank the world.
    — Doug McIntyre, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025
  • There’s a profundity to her and there’s a sweetness, at times, of face.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Foreign Air’s profundity — or its breadth as a multigenre band.
    — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Both of them have the potential to produce wines of honesty and profundity.
    — Brian Freedman, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2021
  • In street lit, however, profundity sometimes comes at a cost.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Even though the context in which the play is being staged has changed, its profundity has not, Ashley said.
    — Danielle Charbonneau, AJC.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • That’s got all the enticing ripples of profundity and still, to make a manifesto of it is risky.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Their building of the groove is a lesson in simplicity and profundity, the whole greater than its parts.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 24 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Then again, this mood piece of monumental profundity and grace does the exact same thing for its viewers.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Nov. 2025
  • There’s a profundity that’s enhanced by expressing even the not-so-pretty parts.
    — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 27 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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, 3 Mar. 2025
  • 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, 3 Mar. 2025
  • But a last-act grasp at profundity in Ruth Greenberg’s screenplay feels unearned.
    — Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • The scene, conveying the bond between mankind and our pets, is ultimately one of great profundity.
    — Malina Saval, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
  • At least that is what this lifelong admirer of the human mind’s profundity fervently hopes.
    — Douglas Hofstadter, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 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
  • 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
  • But there’s something about Gilmour’s deep voice, an inherent profundity, that has always been able to sell despair as a pop song.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Fielder wants to show you all its silly nonsense by pulling a bunch of silly nonsense — and yet, at the same time, squeeze out some actual profundity.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
  • When the profundity of the moment resists words, only the physical release of emotions will do.
    — Courtney Crowder, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
  • But the narrative itself can be a mixed bag, an ambitious text with some moments of true profundity and others still reaching for meaning.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • At the suggestion of the profundity of his and Presley’s influence, Hays goes silent.
    — Brooke Mazurek, Billboard, 11 Aug. 2017
  • 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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