Sentence examples for A superficiality from inspiring English sources

"There is a superficiality to a lot of our thinking," Carr says.

It may be too harsh to accuse de Wolfe of "extraordinary social obtuseness," but her greater devotion to her possessions than to her companions bespeaks a superficiality that often shaded into obliviousness, particularly in later years.

We might remark in passing that the tone of Merleau-Ponty's discussion of the "spoken language" differs sharply from the discussion of "inauthentic language" (Gerede) in Heidegger's Being and Time, where it has a distinctly negative tone, a superficiality, a flittering from one thing to the next, and so forth.

"Humanity has changed profoundly, and the accumulation of constant novelties exalts a superficiality which pulls us in one direction.

"I love the theatrics, and entertaining is what I was put on this Earth to do, but there's a superficiality to it," Aguilera told Marie Claire of motherhood in 2012.

Equating some imaginary white struggle with the contemporary black experience in America just shows a superficiality, a banality that while, perhaps not racist in itself, is certainly unserious and unworthy of someone who considers himself an opinion maker.

At first, the film seems like a comic critique of the superficiality of Hollywood, the mad egotism and empty souls that abound--a superficiality that at times gets tiresome.

Instead, we have a stale uniformity of thinking, a dedicated superficiality, an intellectual laziness, and an instinctive caution about doing anything that rocks any boats.

When it's invoked on television or in movies, it's often a joke and a marker of superficiality: A character who is a model or an actress eats a normal meal and then disappears to the bathroom to throw it up.

Hirst's spot paintings are icons of superficiality for a superficial age.

Lowell may be the first of that postwar generation which will write in dead earnest, not content with providing merely a slick superficiality but attempting to find a basis for a working faith, in spite of secretive Nature and in defiance of the frivolous concepts of a gross and complacent society.