Sentence examples for superficial tale from inspiring English sources

"Argo" is a superficial tale of derring-do that gets its air of importance from its basis in a history that it takes for granted and leaves untouched.

On a religious level, it is drowned in a sea of distortion and tells shocking, superficial tales about Islam that have been transformed in parts of the racist West into clichés devoid of any meaning.

Infomercials are presented as a sort of explicitly superficial fairy tale.

And that is what the filmmakers boil it down to: superficial survival tales, devoid of the most basic biographical details, including the patients' last names, locations, ages and professions.

These aren't superficial love stories or fairy tales.

This interpretation could only come from an extremely literal and superficial understanding of J. R. R. Tolkien's tale and its faithful screen adaptation.

The role of the conservative blogs in this tale warrants far more than the superficial mention they received.

So the tale Capote tells is one of superficial cosmopolitan glamour and the unfulfilled longing for genuine glamour underlying it.

By failing to uncover the kernel, and regarding the story as merely amusing or superficial, a person would accomplish nothing more than looking at the peach, while others internalised the tale and allowed themselves to be touched by it.

Already any superficial distractions of period detail or class privilege evaporate because the heart of this tale is as timeless as marriage itself.

Set mostly within the glitzily superficial city of Los Santos, a warped mirror of Los Angeles, GTA V is a sprawling tale of criminal maniacs self-destructing on a blood-splattered career trajectory to hell.