Example Sentences

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Business lobbies say they aren’t fooled by such superficialities.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 20, 2021

Don’t wander too far in the weeds, but try to find some way to get him to move past the few superficialities he’ll have memorized.

From Slate • Sep. 25, 2016

Right now, pundits are largely focused on the superficialities of nomenclature.

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2014

For all the dissimilarities in eras — we were greeted with yellow ribbons and parades, superficialities meant to atone for mistakes — the homecoming experience for American soldiers and Marines remains a messy, complicated affair.

From Washington Post

Martin I know little of privately, but his portrait shows him to be a strong elemental nature, with little feeling for, or interest in, the superficialities either of life or of art.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Hartley, Marsden