Her beauty is only skin-deep. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : Their sincerity is only skin-deep. From Dictionary.com.
Adverb : He went into the subject only skin-deep. From Dictionary.com.
But their austerity and ceremoniousness are skin-deep. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
Anon, I would say the BBC is too skin-deep to be biased!. From Wordnik.com. [Is this the end of newspapers?] Reference
COSTELLO: Remember that saying, beauty is only skin-deep?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2005] Reference
His answers are both literally and figuratively skin-deep. From Wordnik.com. [Co West, O'Brien!] Reference
So he says, "So race is fundamentally no more than skin-deep.". From Wordnik.com. [The All-American Skin Game, or the Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of it, 1990-1994] Reference
I felt her falter behind the skin-deep mask of a board member?. From Wordnik.com. [Catspaw]
To put it another way, macro-race is literally only skin-deep. From Wordnik.com. [How Not To Be Insane When Accused Of Racism (A Guide For White People)] Reference
Sir Denis was a skin-deep man, a technocrat without imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Kahawa]
What is widely known is the skin-deep, out-of-date McCain image. From Wordnik.com. [Election Central Sunday Roundup] Reference
It isn't the engineer's skin-deep ugliness that drives this story. From Wordnik.com. [Cambodia Book Reviews: The Ugly American] Reference
Excoriation is only skin-deep, after all, and appears to heal quickly. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-07-01] Reference
It may only be a skin-deep portrait of that world, but what skin it is. From Wordnik.com. [A Lesson In Star Chemistry] Reference
But is Twitter just making it easier for journalists to stay skin-deep?. From Wordnik.com. [Daily Digest: Does Campaign Coverage Suck?] Reference
It was slapdash and superficial, with a significance that was skin-deep. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference
"Let us hope that the likeness is only skin-deep, then!" she said bitterly. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Whatever graces we assigned to her, she took on; and not skin-deep, either. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
Yet the skin-deep damage is gratifying, after yesterday's emotional damage. From Wordnik.com. [babycartercl Diary Entry] Reference
It is not barbarous merely because the printing is skin-deep and unalterable. From Wordnik.com. [Walden] Reference
Yet one ought to do him the justice to say that his vanity was only skin-deep. From Wordnik.com. [Voltaire] Reference
The word skin-deep hypnotism might well be applied to the cases just mentioned. From Wordnik.com. [Inferences from Haunted Houses and Haunted Men] Reference
In this sharp, engaging satire, beauty's only skin-deep, but funny cuts to the bone. From Wordnik.com. [On Beauty: Summary and book reviews of On Beauty by Zadie Smith.] Reference
Paula Zahn goes in depth in a special president tonight, skin-deep, racism in America. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 12, 2006] Reference
We tend to think of beauty as a skin-deep issue -- all about how we physically appear. From Wordnik.com. [Vivian Diller, Ph.D.: See Yourself As Beautiful: Replace Magic Potions With Cognitive Solutions] Reference
Nathan Lee: "In the Pit's empathy feels strictly skin-deep, its insight even shallower.". From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 1/31.] Reference
But get her talking about the past decade, and it's clear that the Whoopiness is only skin-deep. From Wordnik.com. [Ready For Her Close-Up (Again)] Reference
The big question his remarks left me with was, will this be something that is more than skin-deep?. From Wordnik.com. [What is Cybergenic? (NetSquared Day 1, Morning Plenaries)] Reference
He mistrusts him, for men are quicker in reading each other than a woman blinded by skin-deep fascination. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
In spite of Josh Brolin's heroic efforts, "W." is a skin-deep biopic that revels in its antic shallowness. From Wordnik.com. ['W.' for Whoa: A Freudian Trip to Oval Office] Reference
Tom had always had a sort of instinct that East's levity was only skin-deep, and this instinct was a true one. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Brown's Schooldays]
Every four years this tournament reminds that the so-called postmodern "European" identity isn't even skin-deep. From Wordnik.com. [Europe's Bloodsport] Reference
I thought not, however, so much of his feelings as of hers, for I think his care for women is but skin-deep at-best. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
Whatever happens, the controversy provides more evidence that, beneath its skin-deep appeal, fashion is serious business. From Wordnik.com. [The Business Of Scandal] Reference
They would have been proud of engaging my attention, as such: but so affected, so flimsy-witted, mere skin-deep beauties! —. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
But every four years the passions stirred by this tournament remind us that the postmodern "European" identity isn't even skin-deep. From Wordnik.com. [Europe's Bloodsport] Reference
But the doctor had but a very imperfect notion of the meaning of the words -- clean skin -- his observation being not even skin-deep. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 277, October 13, 1827] Reference
It's long past time when only Democrats should be subject to a political proctoscope while Republicans get a mere skin-deep overview. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Lyon: Lipschtick and Pigs] Reference
The music sounds as frenetic as the teenage hero's hormones, and its deliberately cheesy tone matches the kid's skin-deep sophistication. From Wordnik.com. ['The Nightfly' Still Lives at 25] Reference
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