Sentence examples for superficial picture from inspiring English sources

One of his motivations was Cary's Nigeria-set novel Mister Johnson, which, though much praised by English critics, seemed to him "a most superficial picture of Nigeria and the Nigerian character".

In the three scans in Fig. 5 a transition from a superficial picture to a more in-depth picture is visible.

But this paints a superficial picture and ignores the complexity, confusion, and emotional charge of the situation.

This is because people tend to see the superficial, but the full picture is more rounded, nuanced and informative to developments in GHD.

The disappearance of oil from the surface of the gulf could be, in the big picture, a relatively superficial improvement.

But "Love Ranch" gives you only a superficial, clichéd picture of brothel life.

Even there, where the setting — the sight lines between the town at large and the character's standpoint — is of dramatic significance, Guadagnino has no interest in showing a broad view of the location, because of his bland sensibility and flimsy directorial strategy, because of his relentless delivery of images that have the superficial charm of picture postcards.

But this remained superficial.

Utilizing his training as a painter, in his early photographs he frequently used the gum-bichromate process in conjunction with platinum or iron-based emulsions, which allowed him a very high degree of control over the image and tended to produce pictures with a superficial resemblance to mezzotints, wash drawings, and other traditional media.

We obtained pictures of the superficial blood vessel pattern by focusing the camera on the pial surface while illuminating the cortex with a 100 W halogen lamp with stable power supply (Kepco ATE 15 15 M, Kepco, Japan), filtered through a 546 nm filter, in order to enhance contrast between blood vessels and surrounding parenchyma.

And architecture is reduced to a picture postcard — an empty, superficial veneer.