He mistakes obscurity for profundity; it is the darkness before the creation.
2
The bishop too rose slowly out of the profundity of his confession.
3
As a statesman, he was unrivalled in the profundity of his knowledge.
4
Indeed, the very cause of its formal simplicity is its interior profundity.
5
The Nabob, of course, did not appreciate the profundity of this remark.
1
As natural sleep has different degrees of profoundness, so has trance sleep.
2
The profoundness of Shakespeare seems a shoreward shallow when viewed alongside the Bible.
3
Darvid inclined with befitting profoundness; the officers bowed much lower their hats above their heads.
4
You would think the boys slept, and that the men have any degree of profoundness.
5
The profoundness of the gloom was tremendous.
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Readily; I have solved others of an abstruseness ten thousand times greater.
2
The same person cannot be expected to excel in the abstruseness of metaphysical science, and in the ravishing effusions of poetical genius.
3
They have none of the abstruseness of idea or obscurity of expression which mark the written communications of a solitary mind with itself.
4
But he rendered his style obscure by excessive affectation and abstruseness, so that he was thought to speak better extempore, than in a premeditated discourse.
1
The abstrusities of the stock exchange were as his A B C's to him.
2
They were bound up in metaphysical abstrusities about which he did not care to bother.
3
Then he dived into differential calculus and philosophical abstrusities.
4
She did not understand his financial abstrusities, and he did not trouble to make them clear.
5
Beside this there were societies where all sorts of abstrusities and absurdities were argued to a standstill.