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For those, to put it more generously, pulled in by the simple pleasures and crystalline profundities of the text.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

Bankman-Fried exploited the vacuity of crypto as an asset by slathering it over with what sounded like profundities but were vacuous at their core.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 3, 2023

“So I’m reluctant to utter my profundities unless I have some experience.”

From New York Times Dec. 15, 2020

The book’s prose passages are interspersed with sections laid out as blank verse, inadvertently demonstrating that mundane reflections aren’t transformed into profundities merely by centring them on the page and inserting a few line breaks.

From The Guardian Jan. 12, 2019

Harriet always uses her polysyllables correctly, so I am not in the least offended at your comparison of my obscurities with her profundities.

From Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation by Francis, Stella M.