skin-deep

It could be written off as largely cosmetic, but increasingly appears more than skin-deep.

"With residences as with—er—ladies, beauty is only skin deep," said he.

The pride was only skin deep; the pluck was part of the heroic element in Annie.

But if his words and writings are examined, it will be seen that this mobility was only skin-deep.

Paul had been touched—a mere graze, skin deep, but still touched—by Helen Darcy's beauty and fascinations.

It is only later in life that ces demoiselles begin to find that their neighbour's beauty is but skin-deep.