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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fairy tales have a surprising profundity .
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The profundities of his speech were lost on the young audience.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At least I got to know some of the background to the paintings; the symbolism and the profundity of meaning.
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He didn't understand the profundity of Estabrook's pain; he was too chilly, too remote.
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Readers of this book will recognize that this attitude is an error of great profundity .
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So back to California he presumably went, without being given the chance to display his profundities before a packed courtroom.
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That is to say that conceptual profundity must be balanced by clarity of content and simplicity of form.
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There were those at that time who cultivated melancholy to give themselves the appearance of profundity .
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Yet despite the flow of movement from one form to the next, the structure of the painting lacks profundity .