Unfortunately, their earnestness is paired with a terribly shallow reading of American racism.
What criticism Gilead received, beyond those who found Ames too good to be true (an assessment that represents either a shallow understanding of human nature, or a shallow reading of Ames's story), was that its ending seemed askew, as a tale of miscegenation and civil rights suddenly erupted into this white Midwestern preacher's deceptively serene story.
But this, too, is a shallow reading: the story that John Ames tells his son is the deeply violent tale of the origins, and consequences, of the American civil war, beginning in 1857, when Ames's grandfather, a fierce old abolitionist, went west to Kansas to fight with John Brown to free the slaves.
People will perhaps be keen to paint this as a curmudgeonly assault on the popular Harry Potter, painting him as an evil abomination that has corrupted our children and heralded the death knell of children's fiction, but that is a shallow reading of a complex series that delights in layering meanings and references in the playground of our imagination".
This shallow reading curve is influenced by the drilling fluid.
However, many studies agree that screen-based reading leads to shallow reading, short attention spans, and poor comprehension.
Democrats, unfortunately, default to this habit, because of an excessive reliance on a shallow reading of polls.
Whether we are thinking of Wagner's obsession with Schopenhauer, Mahler's deep reading of Nietzsche in his Third Symphony or Strauss' shallow reading of Nietzsche in Also Sprach Zarathustra, it's clear that the relationship between music and text goes beyond the confines of poetry and opera libretti.
Kristof continues to call necessary attention to chronic, less-noticed disasters, but he does it more and more by making himself the hero of a moral drama and, in a recent series of columns from Darfur, insulting his readers with the suggestion that they're too shallow to read on unless he bribes them with celebrity gossip.
That means it isn't just splash resistant, though it is that too – you could literally go scuba diving and sit on the ocean floor (in more shallow waters) and read "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea," if you had a hankering to do so.
