Sentence examples for superficial exercise from inspiring English sources

But screen-stroking is a superficial exercise in more ways than one.

Far from being a superficial exercise, thinking about values forces an organisation to confront deep questions about its very existence.

"Oliver Parker!" is ultimately a shrill and superficial exercise in the durable but often wearisome practice of packaging pathology as entertainment.

Desson Thomson from The Washington Post said "Mars Attacks! evokes plenty of sci-fi classics, from The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) to Dr. Strangelove (1964), but it doesn't do much beyond that superficial exercise.

The critic Robert Hughes, who is writing a book on Goya, has dismissed the Chapmans' translations of his images as superficial exercises.

For user involvement to be successful, it must be regarded as an important part of the research process and not a superficial 'tick-box' exercise.

Without this expertise, the active-learning exercises an instructor uses may have superficial similarities to exercises described in the literature, but may lack constructivist elements necessary for improving learning (NRC, 2000).

Design (they are forever pointing out) is not merely an exercise in superficial aesthetics or styling, as the public may assume.

Training of more superficial muscles in dynamic exercises to improve mobility, strength and endurance capacity was gradually included.

One of the problems the teachers must face while teaching evolution relates to the textbooks, which almost always present key contents both in a superficial way and with few exercises (Aleixandre 1994).

But, even at its most challenging, the exercise struck me as superficial.