Sentence examples for Superficially understood from inspiring English sources

It causes, they write, "a state of shortsightedness in which superficially understood, immediate aspects of experience have a disproportionate influence on behavior and emotion".

In most cases, the mechanism of action of the lipid is unknown or superficially understood.

In most cases the mechanism of action of the lipids is unknown or superficially understood, and potential for synergy between actions of lipids has been little explored.

To our knowledge, this issue has not been investigated in the occupational exposure literature, and so the accuracy and precision of variance components derived by standard procedures under different data collection scenarios are only superficially understood.

Steele and Josephs (1990, p. 923) reviewed evidence that alcohol causes "alcohol myopia" defined as "a state of short-sightedness in which superficially understood, immediate aspects of experience have a disproportionate influence on behavior and emotion".

When we tackle a complex problem that we superficially understand, it's tempting to frame it narrowly to make it look like one we've worked on before.

They are, largely, a group of women who only superficially understand the intentions of the gender equality movement.

She suggested that the prosecutors had looked at his actions too superficially to understand the motives behind them.

Superficially, its mechanism is well understood.

Teichmann notes, in his work on Anscombe, that, though it seems superficially intuitive that reasons are understood in causal terms, this does not, in Anscombe's opinion, withstand scrutiny.

"That decision is, in our view, bad policy, contrary to what we understood to be the Governor's position and only superficially explained," he wrote.