This may seem like a superficial, trivial matter, but it is not.
The most conventional set-up to emerge from the PC Music movement, Kero Kero Bonito combine the collective's sickly pop sound and half-spoken, London-accented vocals, covering studiously superficial subject matter with nods to Japanese culture (The Courtyard, N1, 14 Apr).
Similarly, despite the enjoyment he got from paying attention to superficial matters, there wasn't much place for irony in the Spencerian universe.
Instead of enlightened leadership, however, Vlavianos-Arvanitis argues that global society has prioritized superficial matters, such as overconsumption, to the detriment of more serious issues; a mindset which "leads us nowhere".
If you always find yourself in company that obsesses over appearance, try to change the conversation to less superficial matters.
It is to do on a superficial level (and superficies matter in this text) with the possibility in Tsarist Russia of owning "souls", which is how the ownership of serfs is described.
Wang and colleagues[67] have shown that there is a difference in the miRNA repertoire between superficial white matter and overlying gray matter in humans.
Many mono-centric plaques, often large and occasionally surrounded by "pseudo vacuoles", were present preferentially in the deep cerebral cortex and superficial white matter as well as, to a lesser extent, in the cerebellar cortex and white matter (Fig. 1B).
The superficial gray matter is termed the pallium.
Histopathologic examination showed eosinophilic cytoplasmic inclusions within astrocytes in the cortex and superficial white matter focally accompanied by a disordered cortical architecture with dysmorphic neurons and balloon cells, consistent with focal cortical dysplasia classified as type IIb according to International League Against Epilepsy classification criteria (ILAE type IIb).
