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In a world of automation and information overload, freedom of expression is almost encouraged simply to compound the confusion of an increasingly shallow-headed audience.
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Yet now we have a shallow-headed, egotistical preacher at the helm who has been more than happy to lead us into a dark and complex mess woven by commercial forces for whom democracy is the real enemy.
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She was sometimes a little shallow-headed and a bit of a snob as well, but those were her only faults.
Castles and The Lion’s Lady Julie Garwood 1993
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Orcott hints that Phil's affairs are in queer street; but he's a shallow-headed fool, and knows very little.
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Every shallow-headed gentleman in Bedfordshire towns and villages was made to wince under his picturesque and satiric tongue.
Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Charles Maurice Davies 1869
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If no smile welcomed their remarks, at least her silence was not scornful, and the most shallow-headed prater that fluttered around her felt that he was received with dignity and not with disdain.
Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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Comforting, indeed, is it to have in Christ a priest so faithful and righteous; though, alas, the worthy name of "priest" also has been subjected to shame and contempt because of the Pope's disgraceful, shaven, shallow-headed occupants of the office.
Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost Martin Luther 1514
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I shall fix my residence near you to study the law!!! my Uncle urges me to enter the church. but the gate is perjury — & I am little disposed to pay so heavy a price at the turnpike of orthodoxy. a decided Humanist — I shall be the advocate of that Xtianity which I believe in because I see it in its native & simple beauty. trust me Bedford Infidelity is rapid in its progress — shallow-headed Deists, & arrogant Atheists swarm every where, & will every succeed in argument except when they meet with those who believe in the benevolence of God & the inspiration of the man Jesus Christ.
Letter 133 1795
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