For Stillman, style is a matter of submitting gracefully to the imperatives of society in order to achieve one's personal goals and fulfill one's own will nonetheless — a superficial submission that masks will with beauty, a mode of irony that's not merely logical (Socratic style) but aesthetic.
These hugely popular drawing-room songs (including "Let Erin Remember the Days of Old," "Dear Harp of My Country," and "Oft in the Stilly Night") reinvented for audiences across Ireland and Great Britain a form of romantic Celticism that, though nationalist in flavour, was nonetheless politically superficial.
Nonetheless, the superficial epigastric artery was not mentioned.
Their biographical similarities, although superficial, are nonetheless striking: both rode a Tea Party wave to the US Senate – Rubio in 2010 and Cruz in 2012 – often drawing on the inspirational tale of their immigrant parents to underscore the promise of America.
"This is a striking parallel, maybe superficial but nonetheless telling, and which many Slovenians are not willing to stomach: the situation in the 1980s in Yugoslavia on the one hand and the situation of the EU of today on the other.
The way we look tells people we meet what to think about us, which I agree can be superficial but is nonetheless true.
The interviews were usually relatively superficial, but meaningful nonetheless because each month a new celebrity agreed to be featured in a gay magazine and to discuss, on some level, gay people and gay political issues.
Although the film was shot before that unpleasantness appeared online, and the parallels are somewhat superficial, there are similarities nonetheless.
While resisting the urge to turn the festival into a total celebration of fashion photography, Lacroix has nonetheless elevated that most staged, and often superficial, genre by placing the work of Paolo Riversi, Peter Lindbergh, Gregoire Alexandre and the late Richard Avedon at the heart of this big, sprawling and, it has to be said, uneven, event.
ThinkProgress' Alyssa Rosenberg thinks that it may have been unwise for Massachusetts' Senate candidate to make her "I left my clothes on" remark, but nonetheless feels that Senator Scott Brown's response was "a superficial, inappropriate, and degrading judgment on Warren's appearance".
