Sentence examples for superficial for from inspiring English sources

Tonally, though, it's been an odd one: too superficial for empathy, too melancholic for actual jokes.

The title change was hardly superficial for the playwright, Simon Stephens.

He calls superficial, for example, a discussion of the respective quality of leaders (squirming especially when pressed about corrupt colleagues).

Ideas that are intended to be understood in the time it takes to walk around a street corner are surely too superficial for your living room wall.

I imagine it as a tactful, poignant farewell: a 20-minute torrent of expletives, a few hurled knives, flesh wounds too superficial for paramedics to be summoned.

Allow people to dive into the silly and superficial for the sake of their own sanity or for the simple fact that – gasp – they actually care about culture.

The lack of women running for top EU positions is outrageous only on a superficial level, for one big reason.

The unemployment rate declined for superficial reasons, which makes for a gentler headline for President Obama.

Stiglitz also makes a superficial case for an imperialist plot.

They were superficial touches for the fan boys.

But the magic, doctors say, is superficial, lasting for 8 to 12 hours at a time.