superficiality

Example Sentences

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This is a novel about pettiness, middle-class superficiality, disloyalty, prejudice and cruelty, with this coterie of rather vile friends acting as a microcosm for a society in decline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

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

He said there was a "superficiality to analysis based on numbers and on descriptions as brief as 'environmental activist' without looking at the context" of each referral.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2023

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