Example Sentences

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As I’ve written previously, Bankman-Fried exploited the vacuity of crypto by slathering it over with what sounded like profundities but was vacuous gibberish.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2024

And there’s a high risk of sentimentality here: the precious Messiah child mewing his little Whitmanesque profundities at us about the unity of all life.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2021

After which, 22 men will take the field to kick a ball and each other about it, and we will extrapolate revelatory profundities based largely on the words “YES!”

From The Guardian • Aug. 5, 2018

It’s a tonally incoherent record, leaping from genre to genre with abandon; its balance between piercing profundities and lyrical groaners is roughly even.

From The Verge • Feb. 25, 2016

The more he looked at it through her eyes, the more wonderful profundities he discovered in that remark of his, which at the time of uttering it had appeared to him a simple platitude.

From Clayhanger by Bennett, Arnold