Sentence examples for it's skin-deep from inspiring English sources

Waddell quotes a patient who came to her with a tapestry of stitches on her arms, saying: 'I can't bear mental pain.' Physical pain is better than emotional and psychological pain: it's skin-deep.

It is skin-deep and utterly plausible.

It is skin deep and, increasingly in the modern world, what you're watching is the poor, dispossessed and desperate trying to earn a crust in whatever way they can.

Yet the lavishness of it all was skin-deep.

It may be skin-deep, but then so is a strip of film; in each case, the surface carries mysterious hints of depth.

My interest was skin-deep.

It may only be skin deep, but riding in the King Ranch was almost as much fun as being a cowboy minus the saddle sores.

It soon became obvious that Klaus's bluster was skin deep.

But familial resemblance to their English cousin is skin deep – it would take someone with great fortitude to pluck a Davidson plum from the fruit bowl to eat.

Youth will be skin deep, but it's a start.

An image is skin deep, so it's about understanding the context of that image.