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Yet this book makes a persuasive case for why the very superficiality of Franklin's thinking, his ability to "delve into the shallows of simple lessons," could yield such phenomenally important consequences.
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She's very superficial, and superficiality is not a desired quality if you're trying to maintain a long-term relationship.
With the exception of "Reign," which does its best to ruin the many enjoyments of ridiculous CW superficiality, very few of them were outright horrible.
Honestly, I was very frustrated with the superficiality".
A lot of elitist assumptions are made about the way people read Bridget Jones Diaryy, or watch Sex and the City – but actually there's a bourgeois audience that reads for exactly the same reasons, and the books they're reading are not, in the end, very different in terms of the superficiality of the romantic assumptions that underlie them.
Hirst's spot paintings are icons of superficiality for a superficial age.
To rail against snark and superficiality, though, is to deny the very opiate the masses seem to have an insatiable appetite for.
I was a bit self-conscious in doing an interview about a film that explores the essential superficiality of interviews, but Segel was very easy to talk to, curious, forthcoming and thoughtful.
As one of the few responses of art to one of the dismally unusual genocides of the bloody century — auto-genocide: a people who slaughtered their own, not another, people — at the very least it serves as a critique of our superficiality.
More prosaically, the word 'cosmetic' in everyday language is often used to convey superficiality, something "without any real substance" (Chambers English Dictionary).
Looking at women, who very much do, with the same "what if they matched?" superficiality might be the height of objectification.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

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