He ignored the wound because of its superficiality. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
I am lamenting the fact that superficiality is more common than deep, meaningful conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Friends, Confessors, and Church History (Unresolved) – Grasping for the Wind] Reference
(Evidently addicted to CSI, she rabbited on at length about GSR -- but her superficiality is exposed here.). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
Overall, Saved! is an exceptional study in superficiality of all kinds, not just the expected "Oh, Christians are so shallow.". From Wordnik.com. [Saved!] Reference
In the New York stories, like the 9/11-theme "Absence," this makes sense because they're about foreigners, so the superficiality is a reflection of the characters 'alienation. From Wordnik.com. [Bookslut] Reference
I think I am entitled to ask, therefore, just whose "superficiality" he has "gone to some length to expose"?. From Wordnik.com. [Wives and Philosophers] Reference
The whole 'superficiality' angle is the same critique Dennis Doyle makes in his review in the National Catholic Reporter. From Wordnik.com. [FIRST THINGS review of Benedict XVI/Cardinal Ratzinger's "Truth and Tolerance"...] Reference
With Elitists this is because their aesthetic is fundamentally anti-sensationalist, rejecting immediacy for the "superficiality" it generates. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference
But this superficiality is getting serious. From Wordnik.com. [This does not look good] Reference
NEW STUDY OF BHAGAVAD GITA 17 elements; such as superficiality, pettiness, prejudice and ideological adamancy!. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
"superficiality" since the news coverage we receive today is more complete, more sophisticated, more exhaustive than ever before. From Wordnik.com. [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference
The results may be summed up in one word -- superficiality. From Wordnik.com. [A Librarian's Open Shelf] Reference
His changes therefore indicate, not superficiality, but depth. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
Their danger is superficiality through trying to do too many things. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
But when other critics accused him of superficiality they were in error. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Faustus, on the other hand, with flippant superficiality laughs at the idea. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
Paulsen, the book "fairly drips with superficiality" (von Seichtigkeit triefen). From Wordnik.com. [At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers] Reference
But as in this latter case, the superficiality and slightness of the work are deceptive. From Wordnik.com. [Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature] Reference
This superficiality or at least externality of relations is the source of actual conflict. From Wordnik.com. [The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History] Reference
And it was a movement that failed because it added nothing to the idea save a distressing superficiality. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
It inclines to superficiality and is liable to degenerate into a mere detailed description of the person. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
At the same time I am far from advocating flippancy or superficiality, for both are deadly sins in literature. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
And then the peculiar wickedness of Tommy (a child's naughtiness for superficiality) ceases to offend you so much. From Wordnik.com. [With Rimington] Reference
And they kind of epitomize our worst habits and impulses, complete superficiality combined with total self-indulgence. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 20, 2007] Reference
We suppose it is all in the point of view, and our point of view is that there is nothing except superficiality in the ordinary. From Wordnik.com. [Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.] Reference
Who can so far confide in his memory as to append his name to a list of authorities without seeming to prove his own superficiality?. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 04, November 24, 1849] Reference
Ease and versatility of suggestion not infrequently connote superficiality; to make profound and far-reaching suggestions takes time. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
His weakness, his superficiality, had been dominated by the wife who, having accepted her lot, carried her burden proudly to the end!. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference
GAFFIGAN: But I do think that like once we, you know, get beyond the superficiality and we see the individual and the crush wears off. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 28, 2006] Reference
He seemed merely to have borrowed the old gentleman's diplomatic manner of speaking in order to show his own superficiality and emptiness. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
The only value of authority is to counteract laziness and superficiality of appreciation; to stimulate those who would rest content with first impressions to. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
But if these fail to be developed, dishonesty or superficiality, slovenliness in dress and speech, and surliness in manner, may and do become equally habitual. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Brevity and plainness of speech do not, however, necessarily imply superficiality, which, in truth, is not unfrequently veiled by a prolix parade of pompous technicalities. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
It is rather a protest against shallowness and superficiality, much like the chagrin of the artist at having his knowledge of drawing praised and the soul of the picture missed. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
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