superficiality

(Evidently addicted to CSI, she rabbited on at length about GSR -- but her superficiality is exposed here.)

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

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”.

Bukiet on Brooklyn Books Hal Duncan 2009

I am lamenting the fact that superficiality is more common than deep, meaningful conversation.

Friends, Confessors, and Church History (Unresolved) – Grasping for the Wind 2006

Overall, Saved! is an exceptional study in superficiality of all kinds, not just the expected "Oh, Christians are so shallow."

Saved! 2005

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.

Is The Pace Of Technology Making Us Stupid? « Technology Literacy Articles « Articles « Literacy News 2009

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.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

How much is due to the administration's superficiality, which is responsible for the decision?

CASTRO NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEECH ON LABOR DISCIPL 1985

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.

Bookslut moroaircraft@bellsouth.net 2010

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.

Wall Street Played Poorly on Main Street Steve Eder 2010

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."

Leon T. Hadar: The Collapse of Israel's 'Periphery Doctrine': Popping Pipe(s) Turkey Dreams 2010