How To Use Superficiality In A Sentence
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In a world befogged by superficiality, moments of clarity are few and far between.
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But the superficiality became readily apparent in yesterday's absurd statement by the Employment Minister, Michael Forsyth.
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Despite the great quality of its prose, the story itself rings with superficiality, a certain lack of true profundity that can be covered but not overcome.
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The superficiality, the alienation, the escapism, and the hollowness are a result of a steady bombardment of confusing and deadening messages designed to reduce us to passive consumers.
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Width often leads to superficiality and depth may produce a blinkered approach and an intellectual treadmill.
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When it was first shown, their work seemed to represent a new low in superficiality and attitudinizing.
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It's bright and shiny and colourful, and it frequently makes me smile, and it's honest about its utter superficiality.
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The superficiality, the alienation, the escapism and the hollowness are a result of a steady bombardment of confusing and deadening messages designed to reduce us to passive consumers.
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Unfortunately, the effect - which heightens the superficiality of the film - distances viewers from the action as opposed to pulling them into it.
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(Evidently addicted to CSI, she rabbited on at length about GSR -- but her superficiality is exposed here.)
Archive 2009-11-01
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In place of serious musical appreciation we got crass superficiality.
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As icily controlling as Agnes, with the sweet superficiality that keeps suburban women from instantly attacking each other, Edna is a manipulative bitch with a false sense of dignity and entitlement.
George Heymont: Stiff Upper Lips
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But the superficiality became readily apparent in yesterday's absurd statement by the Employment Minister, Michael Forsyth.
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It's bright and shiny and colourful, and it frequently makes me smile, and it's honest about its utter superficiality.
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I hated superficiality, and the popular people were the very epitome of it.
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He personifies superficiality and embodies the fact that they have nothing more to say politically.
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The "title irked me" ... if this isn't a display of just unimaginable superficiality and shallowness of critical thought, than there is none.
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Dogme is dedicated to ridding cinema of artifice and superficiality.
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Undoubtedly, this phenomenon is yet another indication of the glitziness, superficiality and shallowness, which characterizes modern society.
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To be sure, there was much ceremoniousness and the superficiality that went with it.
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Even the television ads for these magazines celebrate the hopeless stupidity and superficiality of the male.
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I despised myself, accused myself in turn of insensibility, superficiality, of disrespect.
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She meandered through an interminable speech ranging through topics from sick children and warfare to the superficiality of film.
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His particular brand of late-capitalist pop nihilism combined with his angst-ridden gay teen characters has always reeked of superficiality.
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In a world befogged by superficiality, moments of clarity are few and far between.
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The consequences of the strength of the political spirit are not all direct, nor does its strength by any means spring solely from its indulgence to the less respectable elements of character, such as languor, extreme pliableness, superficiality.
On Compromise
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For the types Blair now calls "wimmin", there were all-women shortlists and a minister for women; for magazine editors, Blair held flattering lunches; and for civilians, focus groups like the one at which Alastair Campbell, in a break from squabbling with his colleagues, found himself shocked by the all-girl superficiality.
What woman could ever compete with Tony 'cojones' Blair?
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In the early days John was routinely accused of glibness, superficiality, mannerism, of Pop-Art vacancy and amorality.
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Width often leads to superficiality and depth may produce a blinkered approach and an intellectual treadmill.
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In an article on freewheeling sex on college campuses, Rolling Stone quoted many female students talking about the superficiality and oppressiveness of the scene.
World Wide Mind
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he ignored the wound because of its superficiality
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He made Kaethe Gregorovius feel charming, meanwhile becoming increasingly restless at the all-pervading cauliflower — simultaneously hating himself too for this incipience of he knew not what superficiality.
Tender is the Night
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I would never have thought we orthodox Jews would arrive at a stage where our young men of marriageability have become so one-dimensional that their superficiality and pickyness would begin to literally kill our young women.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Anorexia and The New Values of Courtship
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But the text consists for the most part of apophthegmatic generalizations about the topic, about the superficiality, the confusion and ineffectiveness of social theory about ageing and old people, and about the fundamentally paradoxical and inconsistent situation of these old people in the social structure.
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Even the primal urge for physical activity succumbs to superficiality and materialism in the end.
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Lurking among his lubricious superficiality, though, are sophisticated ideas about the push-pull between freedom and commitment.
Times, Sunday Times
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In much the same way that I prefer my hamburgers to taste of real ingredients and my chips to be cooked all the way through, I'm a fan of fulfilling inconsequence, titillating trivia, some satisfaction with the superficiality.
