The phrase "a shallow world" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a society or environment that lacks depth, substance, or meaningful connections.
Example: "In a shallow world where appearances matter more than authenticity, it's hard to find genuine relationships."
Alternatives: "a superficial world" or "a hollow world".
Guided by the moon and tides, bonefish survive by their wits in a shallow world that is brutally hostile.
It is shallow art for a shallow world, its futile narcissistic mirroring the 21st century answer to Monet's waterlily pond.
The faux-ruined walls and clashing colours personify the aspirations of the nouveaux riches, a shallow world of image and artifice.
We want to only see the positives, and live in a shallow world where relationships are fun and easy and nothing bad can happen.
The Takeaway Yes, we live in a shallow world that values appearances, but there is a way to make the playing field a bit more level: allow people to get to know you and take the time to get to know people yourself.
Yes, we live in a shallow world that values appearances, but there is a way to make the playing field a bit more level: allow people to get to know you and take the time to get to know people yourself.
It is telling that "Afternoon Men" (1931), which relates the story of a mild-mannered junior museum official's search for love in a rapacious, shallow world, begins and ends with an invitation to a party.
This may seem harsh, but online dating can be a very shallow world.
Mr. Lee uses his high, cutting voice to sing philosophical lyrics, calling for heroic honesty in a corrupt and shallow world: cultish conviction to defy scoffers.
If one is looking for signs of sincerity -- and intelligence -- in a dumbed-down, synthetic, shallow world, "Down the Garden Paths" is the road to take, and it clocks in at a very sensible 90 minutes, no intermission.
To do anything else constituted more than the violation of the privacy of a great writer; it was proof of one's own reprobate soul, the exploitation (a word with which I've grown familiar over the years) of a man so much purer than the false and shallow world around him, an artist who wanted only to be left alone.
