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Six example sentences with profundity, each labelled with its topic.
Students mistook the lecturer's silence for profundity until a visiting scholar asked one question he could not answer.
Philosophy
Reviewers praised the novel's profundity, though half of them admitted they had reached only the fourth chapter.
Literature
Late quartets carry a profundity that young players can execute but rarely convey until decades of playing have passed.
Music
Critics mistook the film's long silences for profundity, though the director admitted the actors had simply forgotten their lines.
Movies
The blank canvas was hailed for its profundity by two critics and dismissed as an empty frame by everyone else.
Art
The profundity of Darwin's insight lies in how few parts it needs: variation, inheritance, and more births than can survive.
Science
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