Shallow pleasures, perhaps.
Similarly, Mr. Franzen spoke of the shallow pleasures of "liking" as defined by Facebook, urging instead the riskier, more rewarding venture of love.
But it's the broodingly serious Caravaggio, not the lighthearted Hals, who has the last laugh: Caravaggio's imperiled souls — dramatically lighted and caught off guard at critical moments — continue to haunt the viewer long after the considerable but relatively shallow pleasures afforded by Hals's deftly rendered revelers fade from our thoughts.
Youth culture simply takes itself more seriously these days and as much as I bemoan the loss of the simple, shallow pleasures of the Uni Lad lifestyle, you can't help but think it 's a good thing for wider culture.
As soon as we start to think of art simply as something to be consumed, discarded, and replaced, we rob it of one of its greatest powers: its capacity to free us from the grip of easier but shallower pleasures.
This film is handsomely designed and photographed and does take a keener look at Saint Laurent's desperate loneliness and his shallow, jaded pleasures, although it is no less forgiving, no less respectful, no less convinced of Saint Laurent's importance as a popular artist, and really no better at persuading the non-fashionista laity, which I confess includes me.
That group is the Jehovah's Witnesses, and the internet's meme-hunters have just caught wind of a Church-affiliated video that discourages deaf Jehovah's Witnesses from turning to that most shallow of pleasures, masturbation.
That group is the Jehovah's Witnesses, and the internet's meme-hunters have just got wind of a Church-affiliated video which discourages deaf Jehovah's Witnesses from turning to that most shallow of pleasures, masturbation.
It isn't a shallow, low-brow pleasure, to be eschewed in favour of more worthy ingredients such as political comment and psychological depth; puzzle is the most important component of any great story.
Not the sharp spikes of pain and pleasure, but a shallow oscillation off the flatline.
