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Hugh Seymour Walpole, pleasantly unprofound novelist, is the son of an English bishop and feels that Life is earnest.

From Time Magazine Archive

If such a thing is possible, he is profoundly unprofound.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was taking his walk in a subdued way, pondering something—and it puzzled him sorely in his straightforward, unprofound understanding.

From The Perpetual Curate by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

To manœuvre was the profoundest instinct of his unprofound nature.

From Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by Cable, George Washington