Sentence examples for superficial books from inspiring English sources

"In feeding our anti-German prejudices – the prejudices some second-rate authors manifestly deem necessary to sell their rather superficial books – they advance the view that Germany had a uniformly vile and aggressive attitude to its neighbours and potential enemies from the time of Bismarck until the surrender of 1945".

Other, the copycats' self-promotional superficial books will teach you only how to doodle because they have nothing in common with visual arts and its mission.

This isn't to say that "Leviathan" is a superficial book.

This format may seem superficial, but the book actually honors Mr. Ebert's deep affinity with Thomas Wolfe.

Reading the book, then watching the show, you get why Huang was frustrated: without a cruel bully for a father, Eddie's taste for hip-hop feels more superficial — in the book, it's an abused kid's catharsis and an identification with black history.

Cohen, who just released a book, Superficial: More Adventures From the Andy Cohen Diaries, said that his diagnosis has changed his attitude toward sunbathing.

"Why I felt I needed to get involved I will never know (maybe I was auditioning for her squad?) but I innocently said exactly the wrong thing to her, which was, 'Your friend Katy is sitting in the corner and there's plenty of room around her,'" Cohen recounted in his book Superficial: More Adventures From the Andy Cohen Diaries.

In common with those, most travel books are superficial, solipsistic and as artistically accomplished as the average dog fart.

Shouldn't contemporary writing reflect a far more loveless and lifeless and superficial world than those books written before the age of the BlackBerry, when such distractions from love and pain were not available?

The 49 billion deal burdened the company with debt, and ABN Amro's assets turned out to be of poorer quality than Royal Bank of Scotland's superficial assessment of its books had indicated.

While it's not clear why we needed a book of essays about animals completely devoid of any female contributors, other than perhaps a very superficial nod to the book's title.