Design purists loathed it, not least because it reinforced public perceptions of design as a superficial styling tool.
Too often, public speaking seminars emphasize style over substance -- and what a chillingly superficial style it can be.
2. They're charming, but in a superficial way.
Martin Scorsese serves as executive producer on this film, a feelgood boxing-comeback drama with superficial style borrowings from Raging Bull: sparring sessions going too far, family strife, fanatical dedication, woozy fight sequences, sans-serif intertitles.
(Sinagra) GILBERTO SANTA ROSA (Tomorrow) The improvisatory salsa master Gilberto Santa Rosa is a true sonero, an authoritative, blaring singer who prizes his swinging technique over superficial style.
"Their style is the superficial style of the bubble economy 10 years ago, when everyone aspired to the kind of life they seem to lead," said Tsunenori Shinohara, who writes about society and culture for Asahi Shimbun, a leading newspaper.
The word cantata is best known to many through the works of J.S. Bach, although he called them by such older terms as motetto, concerto, or ode (the name cantata was applied by 19th-century editors) and rejected the superficial style that often characterized the form.
Introduced in 1981, the fifth-generation Maxima was completely redesigned and re-engineered for 2000 and gets only superficial style changes for 2002.
Far from being a superficial movement, the style gap is seen by young men as something of real substance, with the same kind of opposition to fuddy-duddy ways that the boomers wore threadbare.
His own experience of the law courts gave him a practical outlook that many other teachers lacked, and indeed he found much to criticize in contemporary teaching, which encouraged a superficial cleverness of style (in this connection he particularly regretted the influence of the early 1st-century writer and statesman Seneca the Younger).
In the song "Day is Done", on his 1969 album "Five Leaves Left", he sings: "When the bird has flown, Got no place to call your home".On a superficial level, her musical style also seems different from her son's.
