Sentence examples for On superficiality from inspiring English sources

And what's the effect of such focus on superficiality?

It's a brilliant idea that feels a little like conceptual art, a commentary on superficiality and hidden depth that is also a wonderful game-play mechanism.

Respect means not making assumptions about someone's intelligence based on superficialities.

But a nation in which Tom Daschle is approaching political superstardom can't be accused of being hooked on superficialities.

But as I also said, there is a truckload of superficiality and ego going on, too.

Second, his first post (which took us far too long to publish, but it's been a busy week) covers Andre Leon Talley's talk last week on the subject of superficiality, along with a reading of Patti Smith's book Just Kids.

The ingredients of this six-episode season, which is based on the memoirs of a midwife who worked in London's East End in the late '50s, could have been used to create a mawkish melodrama, but, despite a tendency to err on the side of superficiality, "Call the Midwife" is generally sensitive and understanding when it comes to maternal matters.

As James Wood wrote in a review of the book for The New Yorker, Heti seems to insist on a certain kind of superficiality: she reproduces all her characters' most pretentious, cynical, and self-absorbed thoughts.

Though the dramas often turn on their heroes' renunciation of superficiality in favor of some noble quality that can't be seen, the renunciation is always insincere, as the existence of such a television hero is always predicated on his costume.

"Working on sitcoms, there's a level of superficiality that you can't really dig under," he said.

But if we're honest, it's more that we're judgmental, picking and choosing which sort of superficiality is acceptable to us on any given day.