If I don't do it and you don't do it, then who is going to do it?" Some may argue that I'm being too serious and advise me to "lighten up" but in an age when there is a national dialogue about diversity and equality in America, shedding light through comedy must be smart, not superficial.
Some managers would argue that it was a smart yet ultimately superficial change: a calculated strategy to get people to care more, work harder, and boost company profits.
He regards himself as an enlightened, intelligent free thinker, too smart to attend the superficial world of drunken parties and clinical sex in the white South African diaspora.
Smart marketing isn't superficial.
It bears a superficial resemblance to the Smart Fortwo, but lacks doors.
He was young, smart, and arrogant: "Steven has the most profoundly superficial mind of anyone I know," Brenner is supposed to have said.
Mr. Melcher said the virtual world would let such people be appreciated for what they feel and think, and how smart and interesting they are, and not by more superficial criteria.
The film kind of dupes us into finding Elle every bit as silly and superficial as her peers do, before revealing her whip-smart legal nous and steely sense of integrity (feminist).
But as it is, "Nancy Drew" stands as an example of how to take a foolproof, time-tested formula — a young detective using smarts and determination to solve a case — and mess it up with superficial cleverness and pandering hackwork.
The son is too smart and too familiar with the turbulence of modern Chinese not to understand that prudent, if superficial, changes can be the price of political preservation.
