Sentence examples for purely superficial from inspiring English sources

Nor is this purely superficial.

Old Shatterhand's outsiderdom, by contrast, seems purely superficial.

There's no substance to these celebrity endorsements; each one is purely superficial and gestural, the self-identification of one ego with another.

The likenesses can be purely superficial, like the domed Breakfast Room of Sir John Soane's house in London (1812-13) vis-à-vis the retractable glass roof of Paolo Soleri's Dome House in Cave Creek, Ariz.

Acrospermum gaubae is purely superficial and causes no damage to its hosts.

From a purely superficial standpoint, we're diggin' what we're seeing so far – but what's up with the funky continent pattern on the back?

The problem is that all those independent voters signed up for all of that Obama's-gonna-be-straight-with-us stuff, not the Obama's-gonna-pander-to-us-on-a-purely-superficial-level stuff.

Even as nations converge on a purely technical and superficial level there has been an ever-greater divergence between the people who have the means and ability to devise these connective technologies and profit from them and those who have been seduced to use them.

For example, she might sense that your interest is purely physical or superficial, and avoid you.

The response to this violence has to be non-violent and my non-violence cannot be merely superficial and purely a technique of protest.

The eponymous Pierre can find no meaning in what he calls "the hopeless interior gloom" of Hamlet, or draw from the general story "those superficial and purely incidental lessons, wherein the painstaking moralist so complacently expatiates".