superficiality

Example Sentences

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This is a novel about pettiness, middle-class superficiality, disloyalty, prejudice and cruelty, with this coterie of rather vile friends acting as a microcosm for a society in decline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

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

Still, Clark backs her, particularly as she challenges the superficiality of those only supporting star authenticity when it is positive.

From BBC • Sep. 20, 2024

But away from the circus of superficiality and the reckless scattershot of AI companies, more pressing matters took shape that deserved attention.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2023

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