skin-deep

Example Sentences

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The story may be only skin-deep, but Banks and Pullman find something truthfully hopeless in these surface pleasures.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 18, 2024

Studies exploring skin-deep resilience have found evidence of a health toll in outwardly resilient young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds, including higher risk of inflammation, immune cell aging, metabolic disorders, and chronic disease.

From Science Daily • Jan. 4, 2024

The pursuit of improvement was more than skin-deep: Every shopping trip offered the possibility that I would find the product that would change everything, not only my visage but my very nature.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2023

Solidarity with the brave people of Ukraine has reminded us all what is possible when empathy is really felt, but it will be bittersweet if our solidarity is really just skin-deep.

From Washington Post • Feb. 28, 2022

They were also forced to live with skin-deep guilt brought on by the treatment of their former Nisei schoolmates.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou