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    Use "superficiality" in a sentence

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    superficiality


    1. He found the plasticised, superficiality of staged Internet sex far more satisfying than having to deal with the real thing


    2. In the end I decided to maraud for the ways of the superficiality and answer with the most insipid of the phrases:


    3. By accepting superficiality, you can be manipulated by those around you


    4. If you are closed to your superficiality, you will not be able to see this symbiotic interaction


    5. This has potential initially to make you feel better; however, this path eventually winds up in emptiness—that is what superficiality is


    6. To praise her just for going out with a good-looking guy, to not see through the woman’s superficiality, they must also be superficial


    7. You might try getting more superficiality to cover for your denied self; however, this is a losing battle


    8. the author hopes that this book will help them see beyond the superficiality of conventional


    9. Because he had a sweet way with him and she had not, he got all the sympathy, including mine; and of course the whole of that windy mass of biassed superficiality called Public Opinion was on his side


    10. the others, while superficiality and imprudence will be drastically reduced

    11. Our tool-awareness is only a form of non-awareness, numbed, distracted, mechanical superficiality: and it is the cause of all our boredom


    12. he had battled most of his life, because at his core he despised his superficiality which he


    13. For instance, I’m almost certain I suffer from undiagnosed cases of paranoia, irrational snacking, abrupt rage, and borderline clinical-level superficiality


    14. Vronsky had several times already, though not so resolutely as now, tried to bring her to consider their position, and every time he had been confronted by the same superficiality and triviality with which she met his appeal now


    15. This life, whose dreary superficiality is covered by the glitter of universal blague, like the stupid clowning of a harlequin by the spangles of a motley costume, induced in him a Frenchified—but most un-French—cosmopolitanism, in reality a mere barren indifferentism posing as intellectual superiority


    16. On the one hand, we have elegant phraseology without any substance, characterized in great part by most one-sided superficiality; and on the other hand, accompanying undeniable profundity of investigation and richness of subject-matter, we get a revolting awkwardness of philosophic terminology, infolding the simplest thoughts in an apparel of abstract science, as though to render them worthy to enter the consecrated palace of the system; and finally, between these two methods of investigation and exposition there is a third, forming, as it were, the transition from one to the other, a method consisting of eclecticism, now flaunting an elegant phraseology, and now a pedantic erudition


    17. As you know, I have striven hard to open English eyes to the emptiness of Shakespeare's philosophy, to the superficiality and second-handedness of his morality, to his weakness and incoherence as a thinker, to his snobbery, his vulgar prejudices, his ignorance, his disqualifications of all sorts for the philosophic eminence claimed for him


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    Synonyms for "superficiality"

    shallowness superficiality triviality frivolity pettiness

    "superficiality" definitions

    lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling


    shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something