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Recent Examples of superficiality
This is a growing movement that ought to be raising eyebrows and forthrightly made visible to its superficiality and smacks of a Jedi-trick look-the-other-way hand-waving.
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
The song contrasts authentic love with the superficiality often found in relationships, urging the listener to let their guard down and accept something pure.
—Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2025
Trump’s superficialities at times led Stan back to the deeper character.
—Marc Tracy, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
Scenic and props designer Duane McGregor has created a mostly white bare stage, filled with empty picture frames, a commentary on the superficiality and subjectivity of art when it’s viewed from different perspectives.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
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Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025
The song contrasts authentic love with the superficiality often found in relationships, urging the listener to let their guard down and accept something pure.
—Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 18 Feb. 2025
Trump’s superficialities at times led Stan back to the deeper character.
—Marc Tracy, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
Scenic and props designer Duane McGregor has created a mostly white bare stage, filled with empty picture frames, a commentary on the superficiality and subjectivity of art when it’s viewed from different perspectives.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
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“Superficiality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superficiality. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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