The phrase "a search for deeper" is not correct as it is incomplete and lacks clarity.
It can be used when discussing the pursuit of deeper understanding or meaning, but it needs to be followed by a noun to be grammatically correct.
Example: "The novel is a search for deeper truths about human nature."
Alternatives: "a quest for deeper understanding" or "an exploration of deeper meanings."
Last year our reviewer, Alexander Frater, called this an "intricate, closely argued and beautifully observed" traveler's tale "by a man... driven as much by the quiet despair of middle age as by a search for deeper meaning".
If the best traveler's tales are really voyages through the mind of the author, then here we have a very cerebral story indeed -- intricate, closely argued and beautifully observed -- by a man who, driven as much by the quiet despair of middle age as by a search for deeper meaning, seems finally to have achieved something close to a state of grace.
The half-black, half-Iranian star said that she's always been on a search for deeper truth and knowledge.
Night is a search for deep connection in the small hours.
Officer Morales's lawyer, Richard H. B. Murray, said the civil suit was a "search for deep pockets," and "probably what is motivating the whole thing".
The setup is so simple that it's tempting to treat their narratives as allegories, or to contrast them in a search for deep meanings.
Looking at litigation like this, it is tempting to dismiss it as a search for deep pockets, and to agree with some courts that it such is a threat to normal business practices.
But as they settle into their fortunes, thoughts of posterity and a search for a deeper meaning in life are driving high-profile forms of philanthropy, from museum construction to education projects.
PEN America said on Thursday that the prize's judges would be looking for a writer in the field of nonfiction, poetry, drama or fiction whose body of work "evoke[s] to some measure Nabokov's brilliant versatility and commitment to literature as a search for the deepest truth and the highest pleasure".
A search for "Obama" goes deeper, displaying the full span of American weirdness, depravity, and idle preoccupation.
It's important to note that the use of shock in this genre isn't just there to offend, but to be a part of a search for something much deeper, some meaning in a fucked world.
