superficiality

Example Sentences

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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

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

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