skin-deep

The story may be only skin-deep, but Banks and Pullman find something truthfully hopeless in these surface pleasures.”

But the most spirited discussions at Cannes are over whether the movie is trenchant or skin-deep.

Studies exploring skin-deep resilience have found evidence of a health toll in outwardly resilient young adults from disadvantaged backgrounds, including higher risk of inflammation, immune cell aging, metabolic disorders, and chronic disease.

Movies* Some advocates for overweight people say the comedy’s use of fat jokes perpetuates the skin-deep stereotypes its makers set out to debunk.

The pursuit of improvement was more than skin-deep: Every shopping trip offered the possibility that I would find the product that would change everything, not only my visage but my very nature.