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I set out to write about altruistic donors because I find virtue interesting, more interesting than vice, and I am puzzled that there is so little written these days about virtuous people, except for the most superficial man-rescues-child-from-pond story every now and again.

You have Richard II, who's this kind of glamorous aesthete; this beautiful, shallow, superficial, vain man who believes in the divine right of kings and believes that he's God's right-hand man on earth.

The little phrase echoes through "In Search of Lost Time," its intervals recurring in other compositions by Vinteuil, its implications rippling outward, until, in a central episode of "The Captive," Vinteuil's music has a life-altering effect on the narrator of the book, essentially inspiring a superficial young man to become Marcel Proust.

It tended to portray McCartney as controlling, egotistical, and superficial: the man who put French lyrics in the Beatles Michellee "as a plain act of social climbing", and was driven to make every Beatles album from Revolver onwards "an album with no one on it but Paul".

Billed as "chat with a female slant" the topics veer towards the superficial, mainly men, kids, diets and shopping (sample question: do you get jealous when a friend loses weight?) But then daytime TV is not known for its innovative formats.

It succeeds in portraying "what dudes think of women in tech" without actually subverting the narrative -- the result is frustratingly superficial, places men's point of view at the center of this issue, and tells me nothing about what it's like to actually be on the receiving end of that male gaze. .

Perhaps this ballyhooed generation is indeed superficial, and this man its Everyman.

Helicobacter spp. have been associated with chronic superficial gastritis in man and play a role in the pathogenesis of peptic ulcer disease, gastric carcinoma and lymphoma, but their clinical significance in companion animals is not clear [ 62].

After starting my adult life as a promoter, it didn't take long before I started to despise this drug-addled world in which everything is superficial, in which men are in the driver's seat, only accepting women on flyers in underwear and where drugs are like the fuel which keeps the engine running.

Immunoreactive inhibin-like material (ILM) was measured by radioimmunoassay (RIA) in serum and gastric juice samples of 23 fasting normal men, 27 men with chronic superficial gastritis (CSG), and 21 men with carcinoma of stomach (5 for gastric analysis).

Although Sikhism has nothing to do with Islam, its members often suffer from anti-Muslim sentiment because their turbans lend them a superficial resemblance to men like the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran and Osama bin Laden.

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