shallowness

Example Sentences

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Shallowness: Good as they are at giving us what we want, algorithms may make it harder for us to look deeper.

From Slate • Feb. 2, 2016

Shallowness in online dating manifests in different ways, but is mostly about appearance.

From Salon • Sep. 27, 2015

Shallowness also hampers Ms. Prager’s four-minute film “Despair,” which stars the actress Bryce Dallas Howard and is based on the classic movie “The Red Shoes.”

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2010

Shallowness and pretension may mislead for a while.

From In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education by Hart, John S. (John Seely)

Shallowness is the rule; a comfortable shallowness, which, unknowing of better things, measures all other minds with its own limited plummet line, and can conceive of no deeper depth.

From A Word to Women by Humphry, Mrs. C. E.