superficiality

Example Sentences

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This is a novel about pettiness, middle-class superficiality, disloyalty, prejudice and cruelty, with this coterie of rather vile friends acting as a microcosm for a society in decline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

So we are left with a question: is Walters all superficiality, a media-obsessive without the stamina or standing for real, transformative politics?

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025

The film is magnifying the superficiality of our culture.

From Salon • Sep. 20, 2024

He said there was a "superficiality to analysis based on numbers and on descriptions as brief as 'environmental activist' without looking at the context" of each referral.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2023

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