superficiality

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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

But older people often mistake the platform’s sometimes playful nature for superficiality, Lobel said, adding, “We don’t just want to see politicians dancing on our TikTok.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 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