Sentence examples for not very profound from inspiring English sources

"It's not very profound, but I just work in the city and live where there are trees and grass, and like it".

"That's a not very profound way of saying that even though Washington never finds a way to save for a rainy day, it rains often".

While the decline in New York and St . Louiswas "not very profound," Professor Vigdor said, new neighborhoods like the Washington Navy Yard in the District of Columbia shifted to 31 percent black in 2010 from 95 percent black in 2000.

I got one year right (it was 1981) and one wrong, felt soiled for having got caught up in it, and then switched off thinking the not very profound thought that guess-the-year always leaves me with: some years, musically speaking, are just stinkier than others.

The older story ends with the words "she and he loved each other across the distance"; the newer one with "and he watched her until he couldn't see her anymore," but really they say the same thing, not very profound -- lovers or strangers, there is always the unfathomable divide.

Long had been his days of pain at being forced to write in the absurd style of the not very profound mystic, yet many had been the naked disciples who had walked with him and his soul cried out for them.

A girl friend said she knew a married guy whose wife wasn't very profound.

"People are getting arrested for the not-very-profound crime of sitting in what's called the postcard zone right in front of the White House," McKibben explained.

The same nostalgic impulse that's bringing us period pieces like "Mad Men" and "The Company" seems to be at work here: someone wants to revive the humanistic, drama-of-not-very-profound-ideas science fiction practiced in the previous century by writers like Mr. Heinlein and Mr. Ellison.

And then, with quick and characteristic rigour, she adds: "It's not a very profound thought; it's actually more a feeling than a thought".

Maybe today a winner may simply be defined as someone who gets to experience authenticity and freedom, not just very profound anxiety, frankly, in the context of essentially extremely tough and extremely precarious labor markets.