superficiality
IPA: supɝfˈɪʃiˈæɫɪti
noun
- The property of being superficial, the tendency to judge by surface appearance.
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Examples of "superficiality" in Sentences
- It's the city of dreams and superficiality.
- Superficiality is no substitute for substance.
- A natural outcome of such superficiality might be argument.
- It carries a connotation of immaturity, transience, and superficiality.
- I am lamenting the fact that superficiality is more common than deep, meaningful conversation.
- How much is due to the administration's superficiality, which is responsible for the decision?
- (Evidently addicted to CSI, she rabbited on at length about GSR -- but her superficiality is exposed here.)
- Overall, Saved! is an exceptional study in superficiality of all kinds, not just the expected "Oh, Christians are so shallow."
- In the New York stories, like the 9/11-theme "Absence," this makes sense because they're about foreigners, so the superficiality is a reflection of the characters 'alienation.
- Mr. Sipprelle, now the founder of Westland Ventures, a Princeton, N. J.-based investment firm, said most voters would see through the "superficiality" of the Wall Street attack.
- Disturbed interpersonal relationships, characterized by superficiality and clinging, seem to reflect what Deutch noted in the histories, namely a lack of adequate early mothering with resultant impairment in the processes of identification, internalization, and normal ego and superego formation.
- The superficiality is downright dangerous, I think, in glossing over the fact that you can suppress theistic religion and end up with worse racism — c.f. anti-semitism in Soviet Russia — because atheistic ideologies can function in exactly the same way to create exactly the same type of “bad thinking”.
- Pipes even suggested that, unlike the "superficiality" of the relations between Syria and Iran, which according to him, were reminiscent of those between Germany and Japan during World War II, the relationship between Israel and Turkey "resembles that between the United States and Great Britain in that war."
- Sometimes when reading a novel from another century, like Victor Hugo or Honorè de Balzak, for example, where the characters move slowly and ponderously through the plots, feeling deeply the movements of their destiny, in touch with the depths of moral and philosophical complexities, it seems we are evolving to become a different species — a dazzled and bewildered one, where superficiality is the norm, rather than the exception, and where we are almost completely losing touch with what it means to be human.