Sentence examples for superficial delights from inspiring English sources
The one I popped in first — dear readers, you can guess — is the one devoted to Busby Berkeley, whose distinctive artistry (one of the few in the movies to be both instantly recognizable and utterly inimitable) is among the rarest and most exotic treasures of the movies, all the more so for the surprising contrast of its giddily superficial delights and its philosophical depths.
"The Art Teacher," a first-person short story about a woman's lifelong passion for an instructor; "Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk," Mr. Wainwright's seriously witty comment on his tendencies toward addiction; and "Poses," a young man's joyfully cheeky acknowledgment of his delight in superficial things like fashion, are great modern pop songs by any standard.
But she said that too many outlets still delight in the superficial — the horse race, poll numbers, gaffes, and other incremental, insider minutiae — over doing the kinds of deeply reported stories she loves, as contained in Richard Ben Cramer's classic book "What It Takes," which went behind the scenes of the 1988 presidential election.
He delights in popular idiocy — O.K., who doesn't? — but his mean, superficial skimming of demotic culture and his knee-jerk, though sometimes warranted, contempt for the pretensions of fine art make Jeff Koons seem like a paragon of spiritual generosity.
His attacks against superficial pretenses to worship have become proverbial: "I hate, I despise your feasts, and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies" (chapter 5, verse 21).
Superficial reconciliation can bring only superficial healing.
But style is superficial.
"Fashion is superficial, momentary.
