superficiality
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“So I think that adds to the superficiality of the current improvement of China-India relations.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
"This incident not only exposes the superficiality of local daily supervision and the low cost of violations, leading to repeated violations by the company," another Weibo user wrote.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
We know that the plastic veneer of Hollywood gives parts of the city, and aspects of life here, a certain superficiality.
From Slate ● Jan. 16, 2025
The film is magnifying the superficiality of our culture.
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2024
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
But the values enshrined in “English” go beyond pop cultural superficialities.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2023
Business lobbies say they aren’t fooled by such superficialities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
Perhaps most important, though, is a lack of substance beyond the superficialities listed above.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2016
Right now, pundits are largely focused on the superficialities of nomenclature.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2014
"Surely not in the estimate of those who are at all serious on the subject of living—those whom superficialities in all conduct or thought weary and even disgust."
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Edgar Fawcett
