So much of Asian-American diasporic literature and film focuses on profound issues of existence and identity, but seldom do Asian-Americans have the space and agency to, well, be shallow, interested in boys, nail art, and You've Got Mail.
The actors happily failed to live up to the stereotypes as shallow, self-interested and vain, at least no more so than politicians, maybe even less so.
"I can do without the shallow, self-interested explanations on the appropriateness of spending free-agent dollars while companies go under," the sports blogger Brian Kamenetzky wrote on the Web site of The Los Angeles Times.
These are all shallow, self-interested, slightly sleazy, ambitious, avaricious, mendacious forces that are DESIGNED to do what they did: Get away with whatever they could.
Reluctantly, he agrees to weekly meetings with Heather, who is smart but shallow, and overly interested in Leonard's personal life.
"It is the Tories who cannot face up to the tough decisions needed to support the economy, hiding behind unfunded, ill thought through policy announcements which only reinforces their reputation as lightweight, shallow and only interested in grabbing a headline.
All the characters, with the exception of Boule de Suif, prove themselves utterly shallow and self-interested.
You're probably missing something significant that an editor somewhere decided you were too shallow and self-interested and stupid to care about.
Not only that, in a shrewd nod to the way the actor's detractors see him, Cruise seems to enjoy the chance to play Cage as shallow, callow, self-interested and manipulative.
Although their conversation hovers almost exclusively in rarefied, symbolic territory, Ms. Schmidt's lovely-looking but shallow Hilde seems more interested in wrestling him into bed than urging him to build for them a "castle in the sky".
By any ethical standard, "having it all" is a self-interested and shallow value.
