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Mothers, toddlers and lovers waded through the shallows like shore birds.

"Unless Japan can defend itself, its fate will always be at the mercy of shallow US opinion," she concluded.

“Bone Lake” offers up an appealing surface but it’s ultimately too shallow to get you immersed.

Sharks were creatures of the deep ocean, he reasoned, and he surfed in the shallower bays.

Some may see his truth as a superficial one, but it’s a truth nonetheless, and it’s when he decides to excavate it onscreen that “Jay Kelly” rises above its more shallow, glitzy trappings.