superficiality
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"This incident not only exposes the superficiality of local daily supervision and the low cost of violations, leading to repeated violations by the company," another Weibo user wrote.
From BBC ● May 25, 2026
Modernism’s critique of Art Deco was its superficiality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
The documentary’s superficiality is reflected in its peculiar use of animation.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2025
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
Thus we live a closed, hard existence of the utmost superficiality, and rarely does an incident strike out a spark.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
But the values enshrined in “English” go beyond pop cultural superficialities.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 17, 2023
Business lobbies say they aren’t fooled by such superficialities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2021
Perhaps most important, though, is a lack of substance beyond the superficialities listed above.
From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2016
Right now, pundits are largely focused on the superficialities of nomenclature.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2014
Very great wealth introduces too many intermediaries, too great indirectness, too much that is extrinsic, too frequent hindrances and superficialities.
From The Holy Earth by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey
