as in shallowness
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Within this supportive environment, members cultivate relationships that go beyond the superficiality often associated with elite groups.
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Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2024
Meredith’s flaws are intriguingly feminized: vanity; superficiality; a changeable, untrustworthy softness.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2024
Artistic and emotional achievements such as John Wick 4, Rebel Moon, All of Us Strangers, The Taste of Things, and Asteroid City lose out to the superficiality of Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, and The Zone of Interest and the inscrutable nothingness of Barbie and Poor Things.
—Armond White, National Review, 19 Jan. 2024
Ives transposes the action to an America of rampant affluence and ghastly superficiality, populated by boorish Wall Street titans (Cannavale) and shady plastic surgeons (Shamos) and drug-dealing diplomats (Pasquale) and tightly wound Hollywood agents (Gray).
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
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Molly Peck, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2024
Meredith’s flaws are intriguingly feminized: vanity; superficiality; a changeable, untrustworthy softness.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2024
Artistic and emotional achievements such as John Wick 4, Rebel Moon, All of Us Strangers, The Taste of Things, and Asteroid City lose out to the superficiality of Oppenheimer, Killers of the Flower Moon, and The Zone of Interest and the inscrutable nothingness of Barbie and Poor Things.
—Armond White, National Review, 19 Jan. 2024
Ives transposes the action to an America of rampant affluence and ghastly superficiality, populated by boorish Wall Street titans (Cannavale) and shady plastic surgeons (Shamos) and drug-dealing diplomats (Pasquale) and tightly wound Hollywood agents (Gray).
—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
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“Superficiality.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superficiality. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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