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Superficial in sentence

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They get into competitive colleges, they get good jobs, and sometimes they make a success of themselves in a superficial manner, and they make a ton of money.
But understanding context is not about a superficial interaction.
PV: Even when we did have conversations about race, our understanding was always superficial.
But now he is foregoing these superficial services.
It's used in a very superficial way that doesn't relate to what a real alpha male is.
And there were no superficial conversations as we shared our innermost thoughts, our fears, and our hopes for life after the spinal ward.
Image is powerful, but also, image is superficial.
And of course, barring surgery, or the fake tan that I got two days ago for work, there's very little that we can do to transform how we look, and how we look, though it is superficial and immutable, has a huge impact on our lives.
So knowing that there was superficial data that was being used to match me up with other people, I decided instead to ask my own questions.
So in my case, "The English Patient" is my most favorite movie ever, but it doesn't work to use that in a profile, because that's a superficial data point, and somebody may disagree and decide they don't want to go out because they didn't like sitting through the three-hour movie.
As I said, there are very few superficial signs that I've been away.
So it was surprising to get this kind of stem cell culture from the superficial part of swollen brain we had in the operating theater.
All this while, I was interviewing him, questioning him, and then I realized that I was getting very superficial information, or just answers to my questions.
The early anatomists who looked at brains gave the superficial structures of this thing all kinds of fanciful names, like hippocampus, meaning "little shrimp."
Or they'll just take a superficial, one-off approach, hoping that they can return back to business as usual as soon as the crisis is over.
When you work with those that don't look like you, or think like you, or speak like you, your shared mission of archaeological discovery erases all superficial differences.
I'm not interested at all in blobism or any of that superficial rubbish that you see coming out as design.
But just because a facade is superficial doesn't mean it's not also deep.
And then third, I want to tell you, in a very superficial way, about some of the things we found when we actually got to look at the financial records, the books, of the gang.
It is these kinds of stories, ones that go beyond the immediate or just the superficial that demonstrate the power of photojournalism.
So I decided one day to cross over from the superficial fashion world to the superficial art world.
Not just a superficial image of it, though it contains that as well, but an explanatory model, embodying the same mathematical relationships and the same causal structure.
These guys confined their surgery to fairly superficial injuries.
Let's start with the superficial: Joaquin Phoenix is, first of all, too fat to be a rookie fireman.
Just what the world needed-another superficial cookie-cutter Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen movie.
The themes of class distinction, homosexuality, longing-desire, etc. were simple and superficial; no more developed than what one would expect from a first year philosophy student.
Lost is the exciting and unpredictable storyline, and instead, in its place, is bland predictability with the obvious attempts at audience manipulation by a superficial pretentious production and distribution team.
So preachy, stilted, and superficial about so horrendous a tragedy, I wish someone would do a remake and get the story a little more right.
Seriously disappointing performance by Brad Pitt and Q T, the plot is very superficial and lame, and, unless indirectly intended, this film actually glorify the Nazis and portrays them as men of honor, and show that the Jewish people are deceiving, cant keep promises and bloody vicious.
It's superficial and filled with the usual cliches of a story in which a guy questions his sexuality.
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