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
In “Wicked: For Good,” for instance, Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba Thropp stands apart from the glossy superficiality of the Emerald City.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2025
The documentary’s superficiality is reflected in its peculiar use of animation.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 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
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
And these things are merely the superficialities of her.
From The Triflers by Frederick Orin Bartlett
