Sentence examples for shallow thing from inspiring English sources

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"It's more about image than substance, and it's a shallow thing that confuses the real issues".

"I know it's a shallow thing to say, but I think it's done so much for women.

Well in comedy you get staples of course, and they're really important in how sitcoms function – you look at the cast of Friends and you can sum them up in one sentence, but it can often be a shallow thing.

"That might seem like a shallow thing to hang your support on, but, in the end, I saw that the genuine concern for the people he was representing was a more important quality than a particular stance on a particular issue".

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And all of the other shallow things will not matter".

Examining what he called the "drum major instinct" to distinguish oneself, Dr. King asked that he be remembered for his commitment not to "shallow things" but to certain principles.

Not the stateside exposure (he is already a comedy star in Britain) or the money (he has plenty), but rather "the very shallow things," Mr. Norton said only half jokingly one recent afternoon.

In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, the notion briefly prevailed that an age of excess had been terminated, and we Americans would finally be forced to relinquish our deep preoccupation with shallow things.

Before that, he was in the teen TV show Skins, "which was even crazier, because teenagers are brutal and the most shallow things are said by your peers at that age.

Last year he hosted Benefits Britain: The Debate and How Rich Are You? on Channel 4. "I think people assume I'm interested only in shallow things – such as flash cars, or women with artificial breasts," he once said.

And all of the other shallow things will not matter," King said in 1968.

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