"superficial meaning" is a correct and common phrase in written English.
It refers to the main or obvious meaning of a sentence or phrase, as opposed to a deeper or more complex interpretation. Example: The poem's superficial meaning is about a journey through nature, but upon closer analysis, it reveals themes of self-discovery and growth.
"What we often see is an attempt to give a superficial meaning to tolerance," he said in a telephone interview.
These eternally smiling, fading unknown faces evidently meant a great deal to her in life but now, without the framing context of her memories, they lost all but the most superficial meaning.
However, the author goes beyond the superficial meaning of Amerika: she finds that locals assign value to Western material goods and way of life (i.e. individualism) but at the same time they cast a critical eye on consumer lifestyles and the inability of people from Amerika to feel towards others.
Parenthood and family is a theme which runs through her new album Wax & Gold - a title which derives its name from Ethiopian literature and culture which details a way of telling stories that put forth dual meanings -- "wax" for the superficial meaning, "gold" for the true meaning.
"The world is like an anesthetic... people are not going beyond the superficial to the meaning of life -- they don't even ask that question because they're caught up in that anesthetizing process".
Their use was entirely superficial and stripped of meaning: the only issue being that these are motifs loaded with meaning, both from the cultures they are plucked from, and when embedded into the European culture that Valentino represents.
Mr. Brooks's solution of programs to help students work on "resiliency, equanimity and self-control" is well meaning but superficial.
The resulting N400 attenuation is thought to arise from the superficial analysis of the meaning at this stage in an effort to get a gist (Kuperberg, 2007; Nieuwland & Van Berkum, 2005).
That may all sound like a revelation, but anyone who claimed that every single black or Asian person was "automatically" disadvantaged could have only the most superficial grasp of the real meaning of racism.
"Design and decoration are so often distinguished from art-making as superficial and devoid of the meaning that art supposedly has," said Mr. Horowitz, whose current show, at the Sadie Coles HQ gallery in London, features a bed made up with pillowcases embroidered with famous pairs, like John and Yoko and Jekyll and Hyde.
Therefore, based on such classification and exclusiveness of constraints, it becomes possible to explain what physical meaning (structural features) superficial features of a problem have, what principles/laws are applicable to them, and how applicable principles/laws change when the situation is changed.
