The profundity of those words struck us as never before.
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I think that pseudo-profundity can be pretentious, but isn't necessarily.
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The profundity of that feels as true now as it did then.
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But where a few of us see predictability, many others see profundity.
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"Summer hours," he said, with such profundity I could hear the italics.
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Time and again, we are reminded of the profundity of D'Agata's writing.
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It's the unstoppable energy and panoramic view that give "Chronicles" its profundity.
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But most of the paintings here are strenuously trolling for pretentious profundity.
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Such a project runs the risk of ending up mired in pseudo-profundity.
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If size is what you're looking for, look no further than The Profundity.
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It ends up feeling perhaps slighter than intended, but still flecked with profundity.
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A thumbnail preview of the plans shows up on the computer aboard Profundity.
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Greatness in a wine is not solely a measure of complexity or profundity.
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But, seven episodes in, it's devolved into dull cosplay bracketed by bogus profundity.
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Cruyff's oracular pronouncements on the game skirted the line between Zen profundity and nonsense.
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This book's profundity might sneak up on you, but it will leave you marveling.
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Thomas Meglioranza brought attractive baritonal qualities if not real basso profundity to the bass numbers.
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We want a person bigger than us to vouch for our suffering and magnify its profundity.
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She was struck by the simplicity of the predicament, the profundity of the call for help.
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He speaks slowly and, at times, with great profundity and a penchant for four-letter words.
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"Len and Company," based on Carly Mensch's play "Len, Asleep in Vinyl," never strains for profundity.
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Ultimately, Mr. Cornelissen hopes his wines will show density, finesse and profundity while evolving over time.
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It's an anticlimax that works perfectly in this Ivy League climate where one typically expects profundity.
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Their drinking seemed like proof of their proximity to the terror and profundity of psychic darkness.
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Olmi does so in a way that emphasizes the profundity of Bakhita's personal presence, even power.
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Scott mixes observations of deep profundity and eloquence with some head-scratching notions about digital life.
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" He tried a few options, and his favorite was, "Vain attempts at profundity via Jay's iPhone.
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I find it's often the simplicity of things that masks their profundity, and often masks their complexity.
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He finds a real profundity in sharing humor with friends and strangers, IRL or on the internet.
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It's easy for a writer to step out boldly only to tip into triteness or ersatz profundity.
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Jules's self-absorption leads to occasional passages of wearying profundity, when the golden sentences begin to fray.
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There's a profundity to these early scenes that reminds you of the power of sustained eye contact.
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That's more than you can say for Shakespeare, with his annoying psychological profundity and show-off verbal panache.
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She taught them that women could write about other planets and political philosophy, with clarity, profundity, and grace.
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Returning to matters of art, we learn from Kabakov that art contains equal doses of profundity and philosophy.
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Who knew the profundity of life could be encapsulated in a small, perfectly formed log of goat cheese?
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Michael Brown and Anthony Lamar Smith were human beings, with all of the complexity and profundity humanness entails.
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Others shook their heads in utter amazement: the profundity of the morning feelings message; can you believe it?
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When you see it this way, you understand the enormity and the profundity of what we are facing.
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They still retain the artist's eye for satire, though, along with his ability for profundity, albeit slightly peculiar.
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We are, of course, wrong when we expect a work of the imagination to illustrate some moral profundity.
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Trump was attempting to express a white male anger and anxiety as made-for-television profundity and witticism.
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And Taboo takes stabs at profundity; James is grappling with the morality of the slave trade, for one thing.
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The colder I get, the duller my impulse to share every inanity and profundity that crosses my mind becomes.
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I already loved Oscar Wilde's aphorisms and his rigorous belief in the profundity of the mask and the pose.
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The result is a series that certainly isn't boring, yet whose profundity largely exists within the eye of the beholder.
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Trump, on the other hand, has an unmistakable and irrefutable appreciation of the profundity of America's foundational Judeo-Christian origins.
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So how disappointing to find her having to carry Julio Medem's florid "Ma Ma," a melodrama only glancing at profundity.
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Here we find courage, pettiness, self-deception, love, profundity, triviality, sadness, joy, munificence, greed, theatricality, restraint, wit, pomposity, despair, hope.
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Green's observations do occasionally veer off into the kind of faux profundity that his detractors like to make fun of.
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Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back makes an unconventional yet compelling case for the profundity of the artist's elaborate sculptural jokes.
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The sedate shots of animals and skyscapes brought Mr. Pärt's profundity (as well as the group's singing) down to earth.
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The profound ways orphan-status impacted me in my 20s couldn't compare to the profundity of loss at their age.
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She was sui generis — there's a disaffection and profundity that comes with the cosmic ennui you hear in her voice.
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The kind of profundity you find on social media feeds: an allusion to having a perspective, without actually committing to one.
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Quite consciously, the album plays up the obscurantism, the eerie spirituality, to maximize a semblance of profundity befitting a Last Testament.
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Driver's performance serves as a masterclass in making passivity and inertia into drama and profundity — for an actor, it's practically alchemy.
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At times, the determined lyricism of the prose lapses into false profundity, but the sheer fearlessness of the narrative is captivating.
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What is remarkable about this statement is not the profundity of the insight, but that it is so uncommon in Washington.
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The Marvel movies and others of their kind often produce an illusion of profundity, a slick, murky overlay of allegorical suggestiveness.
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The series reaches an apotheosis of banal profundity with an image of Snoopy reclining on his master's disembodied, planet-like head.
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The King is so laden with the trappings of profundity and prestige that in the end, it smothers itself to death.
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They've been transmitted via giant plot device antenna to the Rebel flagship Profundity, which then copies it over onto ONE SINGLE LITTLE HARD COPY that looks like this: A small group of soldiers escapes from Profundity and brings the disk to Leia on Tantive IV, where she is arrested in the opening scenes of A New Hope.
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You see, Jeff, I am rich in love for my family, and the profundity of that love far surpasses your bank accounts.
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I specifically remember loving Gary Larson's The Far Side, which managed to pack so much profundity into one understated and idiosyncratic panel.
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And though their days are spent in pursuit of sex, beer and other delights, the movie does have an undertow of profundity.
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A handful of mega-galleries, and their oligarch-artists, hold the purse-strings and power, making price tags matter more than profundity.
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Karen Crouse: Mixed zones, those areas where reporters descend on athletes immediately after they're done competing, are seldom places of high profundity.
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The empty nihilism of "Joker" and the empty Anglo-sentimentalism of "1917," Sam Mendes's Oscar-thirsty war picture, are mistaken for profundity.
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Kim Yong-hwa's delirious fantasy "Along With the Gods: The Two Worlds" is a harmless romp flirting at profundity without coming close.
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Lelio conveys the affair beautifully, including in the delicate, fragmented scenes of lovemaking that convey the profundity of desire and its ordinariness.
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The days of lyrical profundity and a lifelong commitment to the craft as the mandatory criteria for viable rap careers are behind us.
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Liszt's visionary Sonata in B minor is an epic fantasy lasting nearly 30 minutes, shifting from bursts of wildness to passages of profundity.
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Ever since, drug rugs, for me, have conjured a bittersweet whiff of both maverick profundity and the sour disappointment of the mid 70s.
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The result is music with a heavy dance beat but a textural profundity — and song forms that morphed constantly, keeping listeners on edge.
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Set to overwrought music that frequently makes it look ridiculous, Tetley's sleek choreography balleticizes Martha Graham, mimicking Graham's grandiosity and missing her profundity.
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She was still adjusting to the idea of the profundity, the permanence of it—"more permanent than a building or a park," she marveled.
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It is so blind to its faults and so engrossed in what it thinks is profundity that it doesn't realise it is unintentionally hilarious.
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Banality takes its place beside profundity, irony beside sincerity, and if one's impressions of the piece contradict one another, all responses seem nonetheless valid.
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Awdish's book suffers only when she slips into physician mode, searching for words to relate the profundity of medicine as a profession and calling.
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Mr. Lloyd's interpretation balances surface elegance with an aching profundity, so that "Betrayal" becomes less about the anguish of love than of life itself.
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The film is a cringe-inducing satirical drama about the hypocrisy of the art world and the people who confuse its esotericism with profundity.
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But that also means it's a show capable of moments of almost tossed-off profundity, like finding something of immense value in a pawn shop.
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But "Germinal" operates in the very best French tradition of combining whimsy with profundity, and a double consciousness of precise, egoistic individuality with anonymous universality.
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Prog rock, which used complex structures, exotic sounds, and portentous lyrics to create an illusion of profundity, was an ideal soundtrack for the LSD experience.
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You get a sense of the scope and profundity of this erasure in "Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers," a wonderful series that opens Friday at BAMcinématek.
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Like the clowns he shared the town square with, a good charlatan could often juggle, simultaneously keeping up pretensions to scientific rigor and mystical profundity.
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He referred to a 1987 book, " The Overview Effect ," by Frank White, which quotes former astronauts reflecting on the profundity of staring at Earth from space.
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"Kiksuya," similarly, will surely remain a compelling story, one that adds brief profundity and clarity to the grand narrative, but only as a curious and tragic detour.
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You're the Worst's love of format-breaking episodes, moments of near-profundity (often undercut with crass jokes), and bad behavior carries the day throughout the last season.
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The profundity of the moment when she swivels the chair around is never lost, because in that moment it's impossible to overstate the power of dignity restored.
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There's a glitzy attempt at profundity in the opening title which tells us that the story took place on a galaxy far away 'a long time ago.
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And when an explosion darkens Trash Island, evoking the horrors of Japan's past, Mr. Anderson feels like he's circling a profundity he doesn't know how to handle.
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Played by Ms. Namekawa with sprightly sensuality and exuberant wit, it burst with precocious energy — and outdid in profundity much music written by composers many decades older.
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The film's political and moral weight should not overshadow the artistry of its design, though, nor the quiet profundity of its unreserved and admirable approach to gay intimacy.
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Matt, for his part, is equally earnest, but in a way that more closely resembles a sad puppy than his more popular brother's attempt at blacklight poster profundity.
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In a style reminiscent of Orwell, E. B. White and David Sedaris, an affable hero gamely bumbles through adventures rich with moments of fleeting profundity and moral reckoning.
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Anita Pouchard Serra, who had been photographing news events along the border, thought the flood of images coming from there failed to capture the profundity of the crisis.
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Likewise, calling Everything Now a failed stab at profundity feels as productive as feigning shock that the current president said something vile and semiliterate in the media yesterday.
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Laphet thoke is a tangle of fermented tea leaves (shipped from Myanmar by Ms. Tun's eldest sister) and cabbage still crisp, freshness set against the profundity of age.
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Thank you to the Grammy voters for this incredible honor, and thank you to everyone who worked so hard to beautifully capture the profundity of deep southern culture.
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When the boy from Boyhood reached adolescence and started talking about the meaning of things, lots of audiences wrote it off as pseudo-profundity, the worst kind of pretension.
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Instead, the deadly environment of The Rain calls back to Tarkovsky's Stalker, about a dangerous and uninhabited area—the Zone—where every tuft of grass threatens a hidden profundity.
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The novel drew a three-part equation between sadness, intensity and profundity, and I was all in, fully committed to its vision of truth as something dark and broken.
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To hear the rhetoric, to see the stock photography of nature, to hear Dr. Reedy mumble "Native American spirituality" in one video, you might believe the goal was profundity.
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They appeared to relish the fickle keys and dynamics of the Allegretto, and took their time during solemn passages to reveal the profundity embedded within the finale's dancing energy.
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In consequence, too many summits and conferences held between states are tortured affairs that lack profundity but are full of jargon and tiresome clichés that are, in a word, meaningless.
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" In a gushing review (rating: 9.1), Pitchfork's Jay Greene acknowledges the existence of Radioheadisms, writing that the band has "a unique grasp on how easily profundity can slip into banality.
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Forgotten is just abstract enough that it hints at its story more than outright tells you what is going on, but there's a sadness and even profundity to the writing.
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The 31-year-old pianist's return to Zankel on Friday was a little shorter by comparison — just two hours, including an intermission — but larger in scope and reaching cosmic profundity.
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What it wants players to feel about those things is unclear, but seeing a quote about injustice after dying while trying to rescue a civilian feels like a kind of profundity.
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Gavin is a generous, hilarious, and endlessly humble man—and, much like the show he created, oscillates between dark, meandering, hysterical anecdotes into the absurd and simple moments of great profundity.
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There's the notional profundity of the straight play, the ornament and sentiment and fun of the musical, the occasionally moving nostalgia of a one-hander featuring the likes of a Springsteen.
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Regardless of how one feels about the profundity of this trippy dream heist, however, there's no denying it had an outsized effect on popular culture and 2010s cinema as a whole.
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Unlike a lot of other Pixar shorts, this one isn't reaching for poignancy or profundity — it's content with just being very, very funny, and that it pulls off with flying colors.
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And it's got a breezy sense of plotting, stringing numerous threads together to create something that sneaks up behind you and staggers you with its profundity when you least expect it.
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Its story, of how a new college graduate is seduced by the wife of his father's partner and then runs off with Elaine, her pretty daughter, makes no claim to profundity.
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The Outsiders appeals so strongly to teenagers because it's written in what is plainly a teenager's voice: very earnest, very convinced of its own alienation, very convinced of its own profundity.
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"The dramatic increase in foreign-body injuries over the study period, coupled with the sheer number and profundity of injuries, is cause for concern," said Dr. Orsagh-Yentis, according to Science Daily.
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The episode ends first with profundity — "In this terrifying world, all we have are the connections that we make," BoJack scrawls in an apology note — and then with a great closing gag.
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" David Barr Kirtley on Interstellar: "I feel like there's something there that people are getting stuck on, but it's not what I would call pretentiousness, it's what I would call pseudo-profundity.
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Too many summits held between states are tortured affairs that lack profundity but are full of tiresome clichés This suggests that we have failed to confront a major component of the cause.
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Add the craftsmanship of creator and showrunner Marti Noxon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and you've got a story that deals equally in entertainment and profundity, in unrelenting dread and an ineffable aliveness.
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Sorrentino, while leaning into the humor, believes he's saying something profound in all of this about the absurd vacuousness of the Catholic Church as a vehicle for the true profundity of religion.
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In other late stories, such as "Human Being," concision can serve as a shortcut to profundity, a way to avoid the hard work of imagining a narrative situation or an idiosyncratic character.
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But I won't lie: This is still a bunch of cosmic gobbledygook knitted together with some astonishingly fun action sequences, followed by moments of casual profundity tossed off under softly falling snow.
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And for artists who are yearning for the sense that their art at least has social value — or even a sliver of profundity — has it ever been easier to earn instant mass validation?
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I'd thought about this a lot over the past few months, of course, but the profundity of the burden that he was under, fighting against the government for these families, seemed suddenly unimaginable.
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It's a realm in which, for example, Deer Tick's drummer, Dennis Ryan, can convince himself that writing a song about the serial killer John Wayne Gacy constitutes some kind of flirtation with profundity.
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Ad Astra will work best for viewers who either don't care whether its visual wonders contain a compelling story, or those who are willing to project their own emotional profundity onto the material.
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While that's unmistakably true, Wurm's mischievous sculptures illustrate why certain jokes manage to endure past their initial occasion: their wit and profundity, while not timeless, are nonetheless well-suited to a variety of contexts.
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"The Book of Memory" contains all the elements of made-to-order profundity, copied from the familiar templates: the depressive mother; the isolated, bookish protagonist, scarred by her fraught past; the inoffensively experimental prose.
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When I finally had some brief company on Saturday after a long day of reading my incredibly obtuse theological tome and thinking about the profundity of the human spirit, I almost cried from happiness.
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By the end of the night, Lamar had not only given a musically exhilarating performance, he had dropped the truth on a crowd of thousands with the profundity and sincerity he's become known for.
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Every snapshot is a piece of you, your feelings, all of your profundity and mundanity in that moment, just like every snapshot Prompto shares with us and his friends before bed are pieces of him.
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The Democrats captured this same paradoxical profundity with their superb messaging over the weekend: We bravely shut down the government to save the Dreamers even though Donald Trump is responsible for shutting down the government.
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Incoherent, disconnected, self-interrupting, obsessed with pointless minutiae and crammed full of odd, limp stabs at profundity from a closed-off man in his 70s who apparently has no ability to edit or accept constructive criticism.
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I knew things had taken a turn in the past two days, but the profundity with which they had did not become apparent until I saw that Trump: A. Got up an hour earlier than usualandB.
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The director, Tristan Cook, mingles Mr. Johansen's reflections with footage of and voice-overs from other travelers (there is semantic parsing over who warrants the designation "pilgrim"), giving some sense of the profundity of the experience.
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Peter Takacs, a music professor at Oberlin, said in a statement that Professor Walker-Slocum's "deep, noble, unhurried" interpretations of all music, but especially Brahms and Liszt, imbued the works she played with even deeper profundity.
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And as to whether the density of the jargon (which I have spared the reader) is deliberately fashioned for an air of profundity, the charge is as unnecessary as it is against the lingo of literary criticism.
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Tommasini returned to Perahia's performance in his review of Yuja's (he had enthusiastically reviewed the Perahia on May 9th) and held up the older pianist's exhaustion as a sort of necessary tribute to the piece's profundity and monumentality.
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"Thank you to the Grammy voters for this incredible honor, thank you everyone who worked so hard to beautifully capture the profundity of deep Southern culture," she said, glittering as gold and having swapped her crown for a veil.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads It might sound odd for me to say that the quality of Geoffrey Young's poetry — its wit, profundity, and infectious nervous energy — is not the only reason he's one of my favorite poets.
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" His reaction to the black helmsman's death is even more personal: He muses over "the intimate profundity of that look he gave me" that he says "remains to this day in my memory — like a claim of distant kinship.
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I tend to avoid reading what my peers have to say about music I plan to write about, so at this present moment I'm not aware of what levels of depth and profundity others have mined out of this album.
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It strains, here and there, for profundity that it doesn't quite attain, but that's forgivable in an episode that features a shot of the end of time — depicted as a kind of red storm enveloping everything — consuming the entire planet.
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Gladwell isn't willing to go that far (he's got books to sell), so instead he adopts a pose of "just asking questions" for the sake of using the Penn State case to prove the profundity of his latest pet social theory.
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Part of it was stylistic, a mini-movement that took hold of college basketball for a short time during the tail end of a narcissistic decade in America and enabled the profundity and overwhelming shock-and-awe of teams like Oklahoma.
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And if you don't think chaos and profundity make sense together onstage, you probably won't be thrilled by Mr. Lucas's worldview either, which is that of an incurable romantic flailing his way through a doomed crush on a bad date.
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In my eyes, all Geminis strive to be the kind of person who can spit profundity and follow it with a mic drop—but the simple truth is that regardless of the zodiac, we're not all brilliant enough to be profound.
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In hammering home its moral fable that adulthood in a capitalist society requires a necessary abandonment of art, beauty, and all things that make the world wondrous, the film's frame narrative falls short of the profundity and poetry of the original tale.
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There is a feeling of gentle voyeurism when listening to this album—it often seems as if a third party had switched on the tape midway through a verse, hoping to capture a spurt of profundity or confession, without the rapper's permission.
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Similarly, the biggest pitfall of This Unruly Mess's much discussed closer "White Privilege II," aside from a lack of replay value, was this sense that the artist had mistaken his acknowledgment of the awkwardness of his station in hip-hop for profundity.
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That sense of warm nostalgia, combined with their efforts to reconcile some of the messaging sent by the pop culture they devoured when they were younger, gives the show a great tension that Porter and Ely mine for both humor and occasional profundity.
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Phi's references are wide-ranging — in "Villain/elle: Shimomura Cross Over in the Flat of the Night," he alludes with equal dexterity to Dylan Thomas and the rapper Lupe Fiasco — and his irreverent profundity shines in prose poems and fixed forms alike.
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The record, released last week on She Rocks, is called Let Forever Be Only You Tonight, which is exactly the sort of phrase that that's filled the history of pop—a string of words with a suggestion of profundity, but without much literal meaning.
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Earlier seasons also paved the way for the big formal risk of season five's eulogy; Bob-Waksberg and Hanawalt have always leaned into the elastic potential of animation, using the medium to paint with a wide range of moods, from playfulness and pretentiousness to desolation and profundity.
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So The Walking Dead has been at its worst when it confuses pondering nonsense with profundity and that's exactly what it did tonight with a boring episode that seemed to want to revisit some of the weakest BSG/Homeland/24 plotlines of the George W. Bush era.
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Both halves of the show, not so much acted as presented by Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal, take pains—formal, metaphorical, and, God knows, literal—to dredge up feelings of grief and profundity in the audience, and end up missing by inches that feel like miles.
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With their minimalist packaging and discreet information (the recent ones don't explain who's playing what), the CDs and the new double LP are consummately cool, eminently desirable, but the economic aftermath and interlude are relatively modest given the profundity of the experience that has preceded it.
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Meanwhile, Dennis Freedman, the former Barneys creative director who conceived of the project, talks of the profundity of watching the Comme des Garçons fall 2015 show: "They narrowed the runway so the models had to turn and face each other before going their separate ways," he says.
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A story that was originally about the adventures a boy went on with two cartoon characters and a giant key becomes a story about the profundity of interpersonal connection, enlivened by the beautiful and empathetic hope that our ties to other people can recreate the world for the better.
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He wrote on Saturday that "vernacular languages themselves, often only in a progressive manner, would be able to become liturgical languages, standing out in a not dissimilar way to liturgical Latin for their elegance of style and the profundity of their concepts with the aim of nourishing the faith."
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The profundity of human emotion in response to this unexpected call from a foreign land achieves greater emotional resonance, for me, than any of the original music that buttresses the conversation — but then, I am a writer, and drawn to character and narrative more than melody and beat.
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He can have fun on the battle rap back-and-forth of "Bounce"—the year's most fun bar-for-bar rap nerd song—and find profundity in the healing aura of Solange's "Mad" and skate through the celebratory shit-talking of Chance the Rapper's "No Problem" with equal facility.
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"A flower, the random sounds of a waterfall, a willow tree playing in the breeze, or the random scattering of autumn leaves, may lack the intention of profundity but they can all lead to transcendence and open us to beauty – as can a random statement generated by a computer," Dalton wrote.
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There's a vague sense of profundity in the work of artists like Lucas Blalock, who believe to be revealing some original manipulability inherent in digital images — as if such subtle disruptions of the continuity of an image were enough to bring us fully into contact with our new digital perceptions.
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But there was a calm in the midst of the storm, a rock of familiarity and stability and strength: On Tuesday night, President Obama delivered his farewell address in his adopted hometown, Chicago, as a forlorn crowd looked on, realizing the magnitude of the moment, realizing the profundity of its loss.
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"Ken Nordine can pontificate on any small object and make it resonate with the profundity of consciousness and the euphony of a beautiful piece of music," the critic Neil Strauss wrote in The New York Times in 21990, previewing a performance by Mr. Nordine at the Knitting Factory in Manhattan.
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So too with Excellentia, Mollitia, Victoria: many have told stories of the profundity of the time they spent in the space, many more made it a practice to visit Hill regularly throughout the summer, and on the last day, a large crowd gathered with flowers and offerings to witness him come down off the block for the final time.
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My time in 12-step recovery was offering the radical (to me) idea that profundity wasn't predicated solely on dysfunction — that there could be just as much meaning, just as much truth, in the simple act of getting through each day, summoning yourself to show up for other people and their problems, recognizing that their spirits were also fettered by weights you couldn't fathom.
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As you listen to the lyrics of "Tube" (and Phish is famed for its eccentric, at times seemingly nonsensical lyrics that oftentimes shade into sneaky profundity), you encounter a crashing asteroid, tigers, a paranoid doctor, a freeway in Los Angeles, gang wars, a mummy in the cabinet, and a rubber bottle, among others, while long instrumental passages take you to a gorgeous elsewhere, or rather to multiple elsewheres.
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Forcellino's book is outstanding not merely because of the extent to which he incorporates a wealth of new insights on and research pertaining to Leonardo's life at all stages, and to the constantly roiling social and political climate in which the artist lived and worked, but also because of the profundity of detail he so ably provides to lure readers deep beneath the surfaces of Leonardo's works — paintings, unfinished paintings, and drawings alike.
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" She's also a little vain, and Wolitzer pokes delicious fun at the foibles of a career speechifier in her grande-dame phase who can't quite turn off the well-modulated profundity, whether she's out at a bar with her colleagues—"The world is so enormous, but if you have places where they know what you like to drink, then all is well "—or on her way to the salon to get her highlights touched up: "If I added up all the time I've spent in such places, I could probably have traveled the world.
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