This exceptional context allows superficial active fault zones and old exhumed fault zones to be compared.
On a superficial level, the fault lies with the current European leadership, their addiction to inadequate patches and fudges.
"I know I am compromising myself by speaking up for Liszt," Brendel said in 1961, going on to say that if this flamboyant composer, with his swooning female followers, is regarded as "hollow, superficial and pretentious", the fault usually lies with the performer.
Though all three stars are well cast in principle, they all give similarly superficial performances, ingratiating to a fault.
We will miss Sven when he leaves England and he will miss us - our excesses, vulgarities, flashiness, worship of the superficial and profound shallowness - because all our faults are his secret pleasures.
She writes: "On almost every guided tour I was presented with a long list of faults, which all detracted from the superficial splendour and raised the question of just what the Stirling prize was actually rewarding".
But much of this is the fault of a static and rather superficial libretto.
If the vice president himself is faulted by his own partisans, it's usually only for superficial failings -- mainly his grating personality makeovers.
Likewise, to use an example of Williams' own (1981: 28), if you were talking to a driver who through no fault of his own had run over a child, there would be something remarkably obtuse something irrelevant and superficial, even if correct about telling him that he shouldn't feel bad about it provided it wasn't his fault.
On one hand, by eliminating models for even understandable faults, Banks seeks to impart harsh lessons about an industry known for its superficial strictures.
