And therefore, when we receive a gift we are superficially grateful, we say a perfunctory "thank you," but it does not transform our relationship, either to God or to those who have been merciful to us.
By S. Krim, C. Danford, and Brendan Gill Columbia University is putting the finishing touches on a frequency-modulated cyclotron — a device that we've seen and can, we trust, superficially describe, but whose working principle and function we only dimly comprehend.
Columbia University is putting the finishing touches on a frequency-modulated cyclotron — a device that we've seen and can, we trust, superficially describe, but whose working principle and function we only dimly comprehend.
We were superficially bedraggled but fundamentally sturdy.
We will capitalize on this weakness by testing our theory in a paradigm in Experiment 3, in which we implemented superficially similar context changes in both the Cover and the No Cover conditions.
Do we have a map and a destination with which we are even superficially acquainted?
It might seem hard to avoid the conclusion that all the time we spend online, superficially connected but in a more profound sense isolated, must be to blame.
Superficially, we get groovy colors, ad hoc materials, decoration and pattern, coyly combined with vaguely utopian proposals for communal participation: Mr. Hug's contribution, for example, is to invite artists, many of the ones from his bedroom show and occasional magazine, to mix music and images onto CD's and DVD's and then produce jewel boxes or more elaborate containers for the disks.
How does one write the history of the epidemiology of cigarette smoking, for example – which is so abstract, and a story we all know superficially – how can one write that as if it's a discovery, so that you feel it's a discovery?
