Hirst's spot paintings are icons of superficiality for a superficial age.
A city renowned for its glitz and superficiality, for its silicone and veneers, for its worship of celebrity and aspiration might not seem the obvious place for Arctic Monkeys to settle.
Storm Thorgerson could be inscrutable, grand and archly funny – all qualities that placed him some distance from the music industry's standard mixture of flimsy bonhomie and superficiality.
More heat than light as the result of a format that forced superficiality on the – I want to say contestants – participants.
On June 26th a hitherto little-noticed Tory MP defected to Labour, accusing Mr Cameron of "superficiality, unreliability and an apparent lack of any clear convictions".
Government-controlled internet-access providers in Belarus, for example, provide servers full of pirated material to keep their customers happy.Activism or slacktivism?There is also a feeling of superficiality about much online youth activism.
In its variety, its superficiality, its solitary night walkers and its jumbled juxtaposition of public and private spaces, you could argue that it is the beating heart of Englishness.
Two Russian journalists, putting the case for the defence, centred their case not on the rights and wrongs of Russia's laws on extremism, but on the shortcomings of the British media for superficiality, double-standards, and craven obedience to its political and commercial masters.
A sincere, impatient and humble man, he detested the pomposity, superficiality and phoney intimacy of politics.Nor was he like most of his fellow dissidents, mainly ex-communist intellectuals whose glittering careers had been cut short by the Soviet-led invasiof of 1968 and the purges that followed it.
The unofficial word is that the governor listens to his wife, but does not necessarily obey her (she did not want her husband to run in 2003 either).Mr Schwarzenegger is an odd mixture of determination and superficiality.
"Everything the taxidermist saw is invisible to him: my superficiality, my juvenile fascination with the abnormal, my willingness to accept and sometimes even celebrate evil — point this out, and he'll say, 'David?
