The philosophical verdicts delivered as Tampopo's noodles slowly improve ("They've got sincerity but they lack guts"; "They lack profundity" – watch and learn, MasterChef judges).
Some praised it and deemed it a spectacle, while others believed it lacked profundity and portrayal of Cyrus' personality.
He has never recorded Mozart before, finding his music for violin too insincere, lacking the depth and profundity of the operas.
Most problematically, the psychological climax of the story lacks the profundity that would justify its excesses.
Still, though his music generally lacks the profundity of Beethoven's or Schubert's, it is dazzling, harmonically innovative, poetic and exciting.
Marlin Levison of The Star Tribune believed the concert lacked much profundity until the last performance.
A level of profundity is lacking in her performance, but that said, the Blanche DuBois-inspired character is emotionally demanding and this is Ms. Petersen's professional stage debut.
If minor league aesthetic qualities lack sophistication and profundity compared to major league aesthetic qualities, a case can be made that they make up for this lack by their pervasiveness in daily life with serious consequences.
And, without spoiling the moment of the assassination, Spielberg's approach to it — and to all that is crystallized in it — is profoundly revealing in its lack of profundity.
The works of Jane Austen concern themselves almost exclusively with the social surface of a fairly narrow world, and yet she has never been accused of a lack of profundity.
And, without spoiling the moment of the assassination, Spielberg's approach to it and to all that is crystallized in it is profoundly revealing in its lack of profundity.
