superficiality
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"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
Modernism’s critique of Art Deco was its superficiality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
The documentary’s superficiality is reflected in its peculiar use of animation.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025
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
Thus we live a closed, hard existence of the utmost superficiality, and rarely does an incident strike out a spark.
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
It’s all too easy for out-of-state TV anchors and reporters to focus on celebritude and superficialities when dealing with California politics.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2021
Don’t wander too far in the weeds, but try to find some way to get him to move past the few superficialities he’ll have memorized.
From Slate ● Sep. 25, 2016
Right now, pundits are largely focused on the superficialities of nomenclature.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2014
And because it was, it was also the song of life itself,—life in the raw, life as it is when all the superficialities that blunt the vision had been struck away.
From The Voice of the Pack by Edison Marshall
