Profundity

After so much studying the classics as a literature student, it was a relief to read about this Baltimore family and be reminded that profundity can emerge from domestic detail.

It is an interesting circular reasoning, as situational clarity without profundity is arguably impossible.

Its profundity becomes even more obvious if compared to another cover, from the same publication soon after the Israeli military conquered massive Arab territories in the of June 1967.

The actors agreed that Beckett’s play, although full of profundity, is hilarious.

The book begins with the sisters discussing the absurdity of marriage with such wit and profundity that you are immediately attached to their characters, to say nothing of the charm and complexity of their lovers.

Through most of our history, we were not known for our profundity or culture but for living at full throttle.

Aoyama is instantly captivated by Asami Yamazaki, fascinated by her outward emotional profundity, but he has no idea what darkness lies beneath her charming façade.

His musical profundity and virtuosity has also afforded him opportunities to play with some cutting-edge American jazz artists, including saxophonists Steve Coleman and Greg Osby, guitarist Nir Felder, and drummers Ari Hoenig and Dan Weiss.

It’s no wonder she’s lent it to the likes of Perfume Genius, Drugdealer and Ariel Pink: it adds a touch of profundity to everything it meets.

The great Kirsty MacColl lends her beautiful vocals to this 1988 classic, which deftly mixes profanity with profundity.

There’s wonder in your understatement, profundity in your silence.

Narrative in miniature is a high-wire act. It’s easy for a writer to step out boldly only to tip into triteness or ersatz profundity.

Rather, they’re merely extended origins of profundity that never get to go any further.

The teenage characters are all emo and no real emotion, vessels for the film’s sweetest but thinnest stabs at profundity.

By the finish of the parade of nations there was such profundity of inanity from her mouth it was an event of itself to discover whether love of the Games could outlast a loathing of this morbid stupidity.

This supine self-censorship goes way beyond political correctness, a shop-worn term too pallid for the profundity of the problem.

Aspasia, in her limitedness as a woman cannot grasp the profundity of masculine thought.

Critic Paul de Man notes, "Whatever Borges's existential anxieties may be, they have little in common with Sartre's robustly prosaic view of literature, with the earnestness of Camus' moralism, or with the weighty profundity of German existential thought.

For Merleau-Ponty, science neglects the depth and profundity of the phenomena that it endeavors to explain.

Leopardi destroys everything, condemns everything, but wishes to save love from the universal miasma and protect it at least within the profundity of his own soul.