Judge Posner charged that Mr. Clinton was indisputably guilty of perjury and a man of shallow character -- and that many of his intellectual and academic defenders were blathering fools or hypocrites or both.
The main thing that stuck out for me with this book was the character of Jade; from the beginning she seemed like a bit of a "manic pixie dream girl", a shallow, quirky character whose only function seems to be to teach the protagonist, who is usually obsessed with her, to embrace life.
In Michael's first-person narration, Burnside no doubt means to portray the interior state of a shallow, aimless character — a man whose self-understanding, like his understanding of the world, is fatally limited.
From bulk analysis of the simulated AMBER-99ϕ equilibrium, we find that the folding landscape is pseudo-two-state, with complexity arising from the broad, shallow character of the "native" and "unfolded" regions of the phase space.
The authors are well aware that it also provides an excuse for mere titillation: in a typically self-referential joke, a character in the story suggests the scenes exist: "only to sell a bad book filled with shallow characters pushing a nonsense conspiracy".
In Lin's 2010 novel, Richard Yates, the emotional life of a cast of laconic, shallow characters is explored through transcripts of Gmail chats.
For a childish adventure yarn, it's tiring at 500 pages and it's hard to give a stuff about the shallow characters' fate on the "Black Water" to the Bay of Bengal.
Williams reckons Arya is a "fantastic role model for girls" but regrets the number of shallow characters she "sees first-hand and reads all the time" in scripts.
The language and story lines tend toward 90's-style Bollywood masala, with shallow characters playing out absurd plot lines.
He is distinguished among popular playwrights for introducing volatile and complicated issues into his plays and for refusing to create shallow characters.
Most of the modest pleasures are in the ways the men expertly play off one another and invest their shallow characters with more depth than any filmmaker could reasonably expect.
