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superficiality

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Some comparisons are going to be made because at least at a superficial level, there are a few moments that do echo one another.

From Quartz

What seems like a superficial endeavor—crafting a digital character that matches your actual appearance—can offer a bit of levity when the weight of the world is upon you.

However, the biggest failure of “Cyberpunk” is never taking these ideas far enough, making them feel shallow in a superficial setting that asks interesting questions, but fails to answer them thoughtfully.

The reason that I call that out is because it is a superficial attempt by these platforms to say that they are solving the problem while they are not actually doing anything meaningful to solve that problem.

It actually is the beginning of a deep democracy, not just a superficial one.

From Fortune

If the city the city we love to hate for its superficiality is on board, who knows?

As the race pitting President Obama against Mitt Romney officially begins, campaign coverage gains superficiality and confusion.

The history of larp as a hobby for the rich and famous illustrates the superficiality of its current geeky stigma.

And, as has been in the news lately, modeling can also be about stress, superficiality, race and false values.

The weakness in Romney is his superficiality, and the problem in our politics is... well, its superficiality.

Now there is no injustice, no superficiality in this observation; its object is simply parallel to their incapacity for synthesis.

It is a success which its singularity has gained for it, and which its superficiality will soon again forfeit.

As a further concession to his superficiality as a thinker we may frankly admit his incapacity to originate new ideas.

Where I have used documents it was with a desire to escape the charge of superficiality.

His verdicts on the other Scotch poets are marked by the same superficiality, and we regret to add flippancy.

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On this page you'll find 79 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to superficiality, such as: levity, flightiness, flippancy, flirting, flummery, and folly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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