| 单词 | superficial |
| 例句 | The movement became regular while the chant lost its first superficial excitement and began to beat like a steady pulse. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Perhaps the recipients will make nothing of it, or think it is a recording of a pulsar, which in some superficial sense it resembles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z And when Papi looks up from his food to add his two cents to the conversation, it’s like his words are a tambora adding deep wisdom to all that superficial gossip. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He’s known to be quiet and refined, and he seemed, from our superficial acquaintance with him, to be nice. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Though in a million superficial ways it would be identical to the day before—the same breeze would blow and the same tree limbs would fall—my experience of it would be new. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Compared to what we’ve admitted these past few hours, Airman Young, your injuries are superficial. So you’ll consider yourself lucky. And you’ll show some courage worthy of your uniform. Carry on, Nurse Tallis.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The nurse, noting that the slashes were only superficial, just had the inmate stick his arms out through the bars so she could clean them up and put on antiseptic and bandages. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We managed to make it past all the superficial labels like “at risk,” or “below average”; even the ones that were put on Ms. Gruwell, like “too young and too white.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z This war will be battled out on the streets with, hopefully, only superficial damage to the infrastructure and a minimum of human casualties. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Is Lexie still doing theatre?” she asked, and for the rest of the meal they made superficial chitchat about the common denominators of their life: children, traffic, the weather. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Even that was never meant to withstand more than a superficial attack. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Is he superficial, or is it shyness that holds him back, even with me? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Though my sister was upset when she saw me, I knew that months, if not years, might be required to replace her superficial values with those of the English intellectual. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “Putting up walls is a superficial fix, anyway,” she continued. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z From time to time I had made superficial attempts to identify with an author. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Her scrapes and bruises were all superficial, and she cleaned them off as much as she could. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z And that was why, she realized, their conversation was always lighthearted, superficial, essentially meaningless. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We talked about superficial judgments, how people look at you and think they know who you are, what you are, how they put you in a box: jock, china doll, whatever. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I look back at that Anne Frank as a pleasant, amusing, but superficial girl, who has nothing to do with me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Mom thought it was superficial to worry about how you looked. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z When meaningful change fails to materialize following the achievement of superficial diversity, those who remain locked out can become extremely discouraged and demoralized, resulting in cynicism and resignation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Any words would serve, the more irrelevant and superficial the better, any words which would stop him; I didn’t want to see this. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, it’s just your average takedown of Hollywood’s extremely superficial and stereotypical roles black women are assigned in the movie industrial complex that is basically ruining our lives,” I explain. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z In fact, we changed gears so quickly from serious to superficial that I actually walked out the door wondering if I’d imagined the part where he told me I was beautiful. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “She wouldn’t accept a superficial ‘Yeah, you’re right’ and walk away. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I also discovered an inner happiness underneath my superficial and cheerful exterior. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I will confess that until now, though I have prayed for the many stricken by this plague, the situation only touched me in a superficial way. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The Savage meanwhile wandered restlessly round the room, peering with a vague superficial inquisitiveness at the books in the shelves, at the sound-track rolls and reading machine bobbins in their numbered pigeon-holes. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Luckily, merely a superficial grasp was needed to see why the TMV X-ray picture suggested a helix with a turn every 2 3 A along the helical axis. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z On the contrary, she believes they have it within their power to build a bigger, better and more beautiful world, but that they occupy themselves with superficial things, without giving a thought to true beauty. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z What was surprising, however, was how superficial, insubstantial, and uninterested the court's two-and-a-half-page order read. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z For a long time she undressed, washed and dressed the more superficial of the wounds. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He must have seen the corner of my mouth twitch, because he added, “But don’t think you’re going to get all the bandages—these are superficial wounds at best.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z In doing so, I could not refrain from pointing out the superficial resemblance between Pauling’s three-chain helix and the model that Francis and I had shown her fifteen months earlier. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Kutuzov defeated Napoleon precisely because he was not swayed by the ephemeral and superficial values of the court, and made his decisions on a visceral understanding of his men and his people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She was the one being superficial: She thought I looked good on the outside, so everything must be fine on the inside. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z I understood too well what it was like to feel like you were defined by one superficial thing—to feel like you would never escape the box people had put you in. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Social observations: very superficial as yet; I have been moving about too much to make coherent social observations. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The wounds of the face was superficial; the real injury was a depressed fracture of the skull, extending right up through the motor area. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z His is too superficial, likes to flirt and doesn’t concern herself much with what goes on in his head. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He understood the superficial allure of a Harvard faculty appointment, but he advised Birge, “It’s our duty to save Ernest from himself.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The professor told Princesse that she thought I had become distracted by superficial things, such as makeup and clothes. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z As I worked I listened to their talk and perceived its puzzled, wandering, superficial fumbling with the problems and facts of life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In general, it seemed my teammates and the coaching staff had a very superficial idea of who I was as a fencer and a person. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The responsibility for continuing the conversation, since I had forced it to be superficial, was mine. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, this is what she did seem to be, to a superficial inspection. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He perceived the young woman behind all those superficial things. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The gunshot looked pretty superficial, from what she could tell. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Pax shook off the blood from a dozen superficial scratches and then cleaned Gray’s wound. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I lived at West Egg, the--well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Their children resembled mine in all ways except the superficial one of skin color, as indeed they resembled all children of all humans. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor even, in fact, of a superficial one. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Rarely did he write anything of substance, as if only the most superficial news was suitable for her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z As mentioned in Chapter 2, however, it should be carefully distinguished from the gambler’s fallacy, to which it bears a superficial resemblance. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a superficial way to write about myself. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He writes to Jo that at times he loves everybody and at other times everything seems stupid, petty, superficial. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But since Peeta’s greatest confusion centers around me — and not everything can be explained simply—our exchanges are painful and loaded, even though we touch on only the most superficial of details. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z If he loved it all so much why did he seek the superficial froth of Monte Carlo? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I didn't want to do something superficial that only dealt with older conspiracy theories. "Corrosive beliefs are at the heart of what America is": James Tynion on conspiracy theories 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z And like the writing, which is often pointed and funny but sometimes sitcommy and slack, the acting ranges from superficial to richly felt. | 'Stick Fly': ?Stick Fly? at the Cort Theater - Review 2011-12-09T03:01:07Z They are elegantly designed, even strikingly beautiful, yet not superficial. Robert Carsen Is Opera’s Most Reliably Excellent Director 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z “Sometimes things that seem totally disparate, once you dive in and get past the superficial differences, like the difference in language, you see a common approach.” Music: Indie Rock Embraces an African Invasion 2011-01-30T02:30:03Z Because a smattering of white, shows the company’s doing all right! Rentaminority.com is a ridiculously superficial approach to a complex problem, but so is much of the “diversity industry”. Got yourself an all-white panel? Just click on rentaminority.com 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z The hard truth that celebrity, or the maintenance of it, tends to make its possessors more and more superficial is the reason that novels about the rich and famous so often feel flat. The Pain of Fame, With Sondheim, Warhol and Capote as Guides 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z And where Obama was engaged, thorough, and hopeful, Ryan looked checked out; bored, cynical, and superficial. “I believe in change, because I believe in you”: Obama brings his Jed Bartlet game to his final State of the Union 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z She argues that design is not, as most people construe it, just a matter of superficial styling. Hello World: Where Design Meets Life by Alice Rawsthorn – review 2013-05-10T13:00:03Z Mason and Prati are marvelous artists, though too different in styles, ideas and biographies to allow for more than superficial comparisons. Art Review | 'Constructive Spirit': History Lesson in Abstraction, Cutting Across the Americas 2010-02-19T05:50:00Z It was dismissed for being superficial but was actually right on top of the issues! ‘Dynasty’ or ‘Dallas’? Squaring Off in the Lily Pond 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z “It shows no honesty. There’s no empathy, no autonomy, no reflection. It’s all knee-jerk, superficial bravado. It’s the very antithesis of communication.” Improve your relationships – with advice from counter-terrorism experts 2020-08-01T04:00:00Z If that sounds superficial, their “strong in mind and body” mantra perhaps resonates deeper with anxiety-prone millennials, who increasingly use exercise to manage their mental health. Has strong become the respectable face of skinny for young women? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z There’s nothing superficial about Pärt’s music; it’s steeped in a profound knowledge of the vocabulary of the Western canon, reaching back to the medieval plainchant that it so audibly evokes. Composer draws a rock-star response: Arvo Pärt’s music at the Kennedy Center "I am never quick to judge a person based on a superficial reading of creative output," he wrote. Steve Albini 'wanted to strangle' Odd Future on bus ride 2011-08-10T10:23:28Z “It is a superficial routine. Behind this is personal vanity, because hair is one thing we can really put off.” When every day is a bad hair day: Getting to the roots of our new reality 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Before you get to work on the hate email, yes, I cop to being superficial. Date Lab: They were baffled about why they were matched 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z The two paintings of slightly imperious, dark-haired men share more than a superficial resemblance; both are rapidly executed studies that tell us a lot about Velázquez’s dexterity under pressure. Art Review: ‘Velázquez’s Portrait of Duke Francesco I d’Este,’ at the Met 2013-04-18T20:19:23Z The film’s enigmas are atmospheric, and somewhat superficial. Review: Arturo Ripstein’s ‘Bleak Street,’ the Story of a Mexican Murder Case 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z The observable trend is that American politics is further at the mercy of an ADD-afflicted, absentminded and superficial public. Donald Trump and the hobbling of shame: David Foster Wallace warned us about reality TV and we didn’t listen 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Suffice it to say that taste changes and style, by definition, is the most superficial criterion for evaluating architecture. MAGA War on Architectural Diversity Weaponizes Greek Columns 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z They're not just superficial characters that you might find in a poor sitcom. Nate is a "troubled soul": "Ted Lasso" star Nick Mohammed on his character's dark turn 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z What we need most in Rio is not a superficial battle over a phrase, but a deep discussion about what it must mean. ‘Girls’ still racist 2012-06-22T16:56:00Z The realizations here are stark — there’s a difference between superficial and deep love, difficulty is in the eye of the beholder, no one will love you more truly than you love yourself. The Playlist: Nicki Minaj Strikes Back, and Fleet Foxes Return With a Folky Epic 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z For every writer who embraces the term, Allison Duncan wrote, in Vulture, “there’s another who is wary of a genre considered superficial, often in highly gendered terms.” The Invention of the “Beach Read” 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z I would find the odd woman attractive, but only in a superficial way; there were none that I could see myself being with in a long-term sense. 'Meeting new women became an addiction': one woman, 30 dates 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z While his earlier effort offered little more than a superficial gallop through the centuries, Gove has conceded that "there should be room for a greater degree of depth of study". Michael Gove's history wars 2013-07-13T07:00:05Z “The notion that ‘everyone is leaving’ is a superficial narrative. Why all that talent is headed out the door at ESPN 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z But unlike certain directors who fixate on marginalia, creating art in which the engraving on a character’s belt buckle takes precedence over the story, July’s seemingly superficial gestures service something greater: a pulsing emotional center. Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding 2011-07-17T18:23:57Z Having trained as a classical actor, he went to Los Angeles with big ideas, only to discover he was unprepared for a life of near-constant auditions, few callbacks and superficial social interactions. A Man Goes on a Journey 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z But the husband’s superficial diversion tactic gradually opens his eyes when he helps Robert “see” Europe’s great cathedrals by drawing one on a paper bag as the program airs. ‘For the Benefit of Those Who See:’ the resilience of the blind 2014-01-29T23:32:56Z Yet there’s nothing in your letter that indicates a friendship at even the most superficial level. My bridesmaid keeps being nasty. Should I uninvite her? | Mariella Frostrup 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z The 75-year-old Florida artist’s exhibition at Various Small Fires — her first in L.A. — goes beyond a superficial resemblance to digital imagery to probe the vagaries of perception and physical experience. Mernet Larsen probes perception and experience 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z If “Nocturama” was a glossy execution of a superficial conceit, “Zombi Child,” the director’s new film, is a scintillating act of discretion — or, if you are disinclined to trust Bonello, of evasion. ‘Zombi Child’ Review: Race, Class and Voodoo 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z Here was a hint of something less superficial, an insight into whether she was driving towards something or driving away from it. TV review: MotherTruckers; Bullets, Boots and Bandages; Inside Men 2012-02-09T23:10:01Z The show opened with a test of superficial impressions. Looking for a Date as China Looks On 2011-08-07T02:00:19Z The best, independently of any superficial modernism, will always shine true. Dido and Aeneas; English Music festival – review 2013-06-01T23:07:11Z But there is nothing much here beyond idle curiosity and superficial scares. Movie Review: ?The Innkeepers,? a Paranormal Film Directed by Ti West 2012-02-02T22:50:06Z We need to elevate our discourse beyond the superficial and stereotypical. Beyond the wedgies: How we oversimplify schoolyard bullying 2014-05-03T21:30:00Z Over the years, he had submitted to numerous interviews and press conferences, but the quality of these exchanges was erratic, frequently characterized by superficial answers to even shallower questions. Was there anything real about Elvis Presley? 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z "He is being treated for superficial cuts and bruises but is fine." Singer George Michael gets medical treatment after car crash 2013-05-17T14:52:18Z Women assassins, women mad scientists: There seems to be a thematic undercurrent of girl power and the strength of women, which is often systematically subdued or controlled by men, but it feels superficial. ‘Black Widow’ Review: Spies, Lies and Family Ties 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z "Crude", "uneven", "dangerous signs of repeating himself", "amoral overtones", "rather superficial" made him sound promising. Opera Holland Park: Francesca da Rimini, Fantastic Mr Fox; BBC Proms 24 & 25 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z But the problem for GCB is that it hasn’t yet figured out a way to be a soap that spoofs superficiality without being superficial itself. TV Weekend: GCB 2012-03-02T19:43:00Z Slowly, I saw the downside of instant, superficial glitz and glory, sad when two former students with big deals struggled with severe depression. What do mentors and protégés owe each other? 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z In an era of Snapchat, holograms and selfies, images are at once everywhere and evaporating, amplifying our differences while evoking only superficial connection. 'Through a Lens Darkly' tackles a photographic divide in America 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z Instead of praising her for speaking out, and noting the power of her speech, you immediately paint it as something more superficial and something morally suspect. From mansplainers to sexual assaulters, Kate Manne explains how society empowers men to harm women 2020-08-10T04:00:00Z Why not engage at the deepest level in a territory decried as superficial? Is Facebook the place for serious essays? Jeff Nunokawa thinks so 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z The savviest photographers work to achieve a careful balance between the superficial and the political. That Cute Whale You Clicked On? It’s Doomed 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The preoccupations of Hydra’s moneyed vacationers are both alluring and relentlessly superficial: questions of interior design, dinner menus, the quality of the local help. Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Why are you so quick to dismiss a talking toilet as superficial? This Week in Fiction: Jonathan Safran Foer on the Virtues of Parental Relativism 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z It's interesting for me to play an actress' assistant who then comments on that world and how it works and how superficial it can be. A Minute With: Kristen Stewart on the follies of film and fame 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Maybe Kate’s charms are superficial and yours reveal themselves fully only over time. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: He ghosted her and didn’t say boo. Now he’s asked her out. 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z While some may see The Bling Ring's protagonists as dumb, superficial kids, Coppola's compassion shines through. Sofia Coppola on The Bling Ring: 'What these kids did really took ingenuity' 2013-07-04T19:00:00Z Both films feature stellar performances from Timothée Chalamet and Lucas Hedges, respectively, but they render the pain of addiction and institutionalized bigotry in superficial ways, mostly as engines for parental enlightenment and filial devotion. Boys on film: what we can learn about masculinity from Hollywood 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z It remains his only film as a director: alert, tender, beautiful and horrifying, with not a single false note or superficial choice. Gary Oldman: will Churchill prove to be his finest hour? | The Observer profile 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z “Kindred” the series takes up, if often in a superficial way, many of the themes of “Kindred” the book, and it will draw some deserved praise for doing so. ‘Kindred’ Review: Octavia Butler Comes to the Screen 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z “It’s not because we’re just more superficial in films,” he said. ‘A Hologram for the King’ Finds Tom Hanks in the Desert, Desperate to Sell Phantoms 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z We want children to get good at leading close relationships, not superficial ones.” The End of the Best Friend 2010-06-16T21:41:00Z I despise this and many other of her superficial and materialistic lifestyle choices. Carolyn Hax: A daughter hates her mom’s plastic surgery 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Some critics called it a mess and superficial. Why Robert Altman's brilliant 'Nashville' never had a sequel 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Because in Nietzsche’s view consciousness and reasoning are fairly superficial aspects of human beings. Who was Nietzsche? 2012-10-01T11:45:00Z By late 1973 he was thoroughly disgusted by the superficial appropriation of Spanish culture by American tourists who were inspired by Hemingway. Lost script reveals what Orson Welles really thought about Ernest Hemingway 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z One of his motivations was Cary's Nigeria-set novel Mister Johnson, which, though much praised by English critics, seemed to him "a most superficial picture of Nigeria and the Nigerian character". Chinua Achebe obituary 2013-03-22T13:56:09Z As the easy charm gradually flakes away and reveals his mounting desperation, so the superficial circle in which he moves recoils from him. My streaming gem: why you should watch Nobody's Watching 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z “He wasn’t superficial. He wasn’t the stereotypical guy who would say, like, ‘Cute pic.’ Not Quite Dating, but Certain About Forever 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z I think the byproduct of their upbeat energy is a real disingenuous, superficial reality that just doesn’t exist in New York. Seeking Sobriety in Brooklyn 2011-04-06T19:37:02Z Yet only a superficial reading of “The Lost Daughter” would describe it as a meditation on the twin tugs of children and career. ‘The Lost Daughter’ Review: The Parent Trap 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z Based on Voltaire's account of the Queen of Babylon in 800BC, Semiramide is as dark as Rossini gets, its superficial cheerfulness as sinister a fallacy as a bling chandelier still lit above a bombed-out ballroom. Semiramide ? review 2011-08-29T17:30:00Z The deluge of presidential tweets caused a different kind of chaos — superficial to some, serious to others. ‘This isn’t just a stupid story, it’s a big story’: An oral history of Sharpiegate 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z First the superficial things jump out at me. The way we left Cuba 2012-12-31T18:00:00Z And Tom Loughlin at the Poor Player took the opportunity to reflect on the fundamentally superficial nature of awards ceremonies. Noises off: Views from the edge of the red carpet 2010-06-17T10:04:00Z Don’t, she says — this transformation from new arrival to success story is “as superficial and deceitful as an ad placed on the back of a bus.” Yiyun Li’s brave look at depression and the consoling power of literature 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z “There was a moment in my life when I was fighting with the way things look, because I thought aesthetics was part of a superficial universe,” he said. Camilo’s Hemisphere-Spanning Pop 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z A big part of combatting that staggering amount of largely superficial waste is understanding why certain market segments would pass over or discard imperfect produce that otherwise tastes the same as its conventionally attractive counterparts. Want to know more about how conservatives really think? Look in their grocery carts 2023-10-16T04:00:00Z Considered a bubble candidate -- in part because he’s so little-known, in part because his movie shares some superficial similarities to James Marsh’s “The Theory of Everything,” potentially splitting the vote — Tyldum is now in. DGA 2015: Five surprises from Tuesday's nominations 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z Do the “superficial and transactional” nature of his political relationships make it difficult for him to connect with real people in his personal life, Anthony Weiner wonders aloud? Anthony Weiner’s downfall and Donald Trump’s rise: Everything that’s bad and stupid about politics in one lesson 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z Avedon’s photographs are rarely boring, but they are almost always superficial. Avedon at 100: Photos of Seduction 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z This superficial perspective misses the brilliance of dreidel. Dreidel: A seemingly foolish game that contains the moral world in miniature 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z Looking back at portraying Mowlam, Walters notes her portrayal was about "that balance of impersonation and embodiment and not wanting for it to be superficial". Julie Walters on her Overall legacy 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z Despite his success and many honors, Claiborne's life appears to have brought only superficial joy. Review: Bio details revolution in approach to food 2012-05-07T14:57:09Z But the play’s overwhelming sense of the woman is: flippant, profane, superficial and painfully self-involved. | 'Woman Before a Glass': She Loved Herself, Yes, but She Also Loved Art 2011-05-20T02:05:01Z The conversation surrounding Robbie looks is deeply superficial and plainly misogynistic. Why Margot Robbie is being criticized for her "mid" looks, despite embodying perfect Barbie doll 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z The film constantly distracts us from moral lessons or deeper human connections, focusing instead on macaroons, hair ornaments, waistcoats and other tokens of superficial beauty. Perfection comes at a price in latest adaptation of Jane Austen's classic "Emma" 2020-04-11T04:00:00Z Nothing about your feelings sounds superficial: you want love, marriage and children, and after 18 months he can’t even declare the first one. My boyfriend cheated on me but I want to move in | Mariella Frostrup 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z Each day the information they receive and the interaction they have must be so local or so superficial that the facts of government, foreign and domestic affairs … never slip through. Millennials will save us! 2013-02-16T19:00:00Z This is a sign that Salmond's engagement with the arts goes beyond superficial courting, and that he genuinely wishes to place imagination at the heart of the new Scotland. The writers Alex Salmond is courting now will hold him to account 2013-07-14T20:00:01Z While all that lazy visual symbolism helped turned Tavener into something of a spiritual superstar, it is a very superficial way of looking at the composer – and his music. John Tavener: 'The days of seven-hour pieces are gone' 2013-07-01T18:00:01Z His protagonist was a wealthy man who felt trapped — mired in middle age, tired of a decades-long marriage, skeptical of the superficial people around him. The Mystery Buffs in the White House 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Xiomara Reyes finds perhaps her best role as the Cowgirl: often a blandly superficial performer in more conventionally balletic roles, here she’s endearingly touching and lively. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater at City Center 2012-10-17T22:19:58Z A. Compared with the other ballerinas, I think I look a bit flimsy and superficial. Anastasia Meskova on the Bolshoi: ‘I Was in the Middle’ 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z But it is still, in the end, one superficial form of stage magic superimposed on another. Review: In the Met’s ‘Siegfried,’ Singers Transcend the Staging 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z “In political circles,” he observes, “the word ‘fashion’ is still often pronounced as if it’s an expletive – ‘fashion,’ that superficial business for indulgent, politically apathetic people. T Magazine: Speak Softly and Wear Big Shoulder Pads 2011-01-20T14:00:23Z I entered the theatre militantly atheist, depressed and with the belief that working in film was a superficial thing to do with one’s life. 'I barely breathed': Tilda Swinton, Emma Thompson, Steve McQueen and more on their most memorable moments at the movies 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z We're lost in a superficial snowstorm of information where we end up knowing a lot about nothing. Why marathon productions are big among the YouTube generation 2013-05-25T07:00:31Z My sister says this is a lost cause and that I should just keep our conversations superficial. How Do I Tell My Mother to Stop Dumping Her Problems on Me? 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Many of the so-called common things you mention to me are kind of superficial landmarks, like the landscape of northern New England. Irving explores bisexuality in latest best seller 2012-06-28T18:18:42Z A superficial consideration of what passes for its plot might be misleading here. Skyfail: why the new Bond villain perpetuates mental health stigma 2012-11-12T08:30:03Z In certain superficial ways – its intense security, groupthink mentality, racially homogenous demographics and stunning level of showmanship – the Oscars reminded me of a Donald Trump rally. My first Oscars: booze, reality stars and queuing with Jared Leto 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z The book is exactly what its title indicates: a celebration of passionate sexual love against superficial hedonism. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z But beyond superficial physical markers I don’t see much shared between Brianna and her biological father. ‘Outlander’ Season 2 Finale: I Believe You 2016-07-09T04:00:00Z It turns out to be superficial; the river flowed into a kilometer-long underground cavern. Beneath the surface — caving and diving — Belize is breathtaking 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z And increasingly, with a superficially Westernised world, a travel writer can find what is real under that superficial Westernisation. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z I was never too much into Warhol and the whole pop thing – it felt a bit superficial. Live from planet Bj?rk 2011-07-04T19:00:00Z Keeping up appearances is no longer simply a superficial pursuit; it’s an ethical one, too. ‘I Feel Pretty’ and the Rise of Beauty-Standard Denialism 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z This touches on a final, more superficial reason artists make records – to plunge into a more glamorous and high-octane world than that of the studio and the gallery. From Ai Weiwei to Anish Kapoor: the art world's love affair with pop 2012-11-14T18:23:09Z The idea of the critical privileging of rock music as the unmediated, the truthful and honest as against pop as the derivative, mediated, commercial and superficial . . . that interested me. Green Gartside: The brainiest man in pop (apart from Brian Eno) 2011-02-22T21:31:10Z Fat layer: The line of interior fat that runs the length of the brisket and separates the superficial and deep pectoral muscles. Do you know your deckle from your flat? A glossary of brisket terms 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z This ensures that the conversation always remains superficial; the debate is sidetracked into one of a clash of values and whether we belong in this society, the exact discussion that Islamophobes want us to have. Islam isn’t the problem: American Muslims should be on the front lines of questioning U.S. policies that have contributed to destabilization, sectarianism and bloodshed in the Middle East 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Mona is brilliant, superficial, mysteriously bruised, exhibitionistic, insecure, vain and impossibly glamorous. So You’re at a Literary Conference With a Bunch of Jerks 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z The good cheer occasionally feels superficial – although there's a payoff later, and I admire Hughes's cussed refusal to emote. Sean Hughes: Life Becomes Noises – Edinburgh review 2012-08-13T17:00:01Z A by-the-numbers remake will include call outs to the original so that fans will feel that nostalgic rush, and a few superficial twists on the story without deviating from the original's plot beats. "Pet Sematary" stinks like a rotting corpse: Stay away and watch the original 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z The superficial difference between the two is that Gervais doesn’t star in the new one. TV Weekend: Life?s Too Short 2012-02-17T17:23:29Z Zadie’s story begins by offering a somewhat superficial portrait of what it means to be a doctor, or a wife, or a friend. A Story of Two Doctors, and a Secret Between Them 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z She arrived a decade ago as an over-the-top dance-pop diva, flaunting wigs, costumes, makeup and dance routines in a barrage of proudly superficial guises: Mirrors! In ‘A Star Is Born,’ Lady Gaga Pits Pop Against Authenticity 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z But this is not just another superficial flashback to the ’60s, blending pop music and political turmoil into a thin broth of nostalgia. ‘Mangrove’ Review: A Restaurant’s Radicalism 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z The superficial gloss of his direction advertises the film’s luxurious production, without at all reflecting back on the conflicts that it entails or the realms that it excludes. “Fifty Shades Darker”: Not Even the Sex Has Personality 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Gout favors restless camerawork and syncopated editing, which is both engaging and somewhat superficial. ‘Days of Grace,’ a Mexican Film by Everardo Gout 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z These gimmicks, however, do not mask the thin, superficial writing, which relies on blandly sentimental monologues and an assortment of patriotic war-flick clichés. ‘Foxhole’ Review: A History of Violence 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z “Sometimes superficial things can make a big expressive difference,” Mr. Crutchfield told a singer who had been unconsciously throwing out his hands with each new breath. Music: Will Crutchfield, Preaching the Gospel of Bel Canto 2010-07-03T17:17:00Z Played here with power and precision by Jared Soldiviero and Matt Smallcomb, the percussion part adds superficial haunted-house excitement — eerie bells, shivery shimmers, sudden crashes — while draining the energy of the main event. Music Review: ‘Rite of Spring,’ With Clanging Pianos and Drums 2013-06-14T20:18:20Z So it’s obviously rooted in that larger space opera, and the trailer establishes that in some superficial ways. New 'Rogue One’ Trailer Hints at Another Star Wars Epic 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z That declaimed, chantlike text setting! — yield work that is superficial or boring. Music of our time: Washington Chorus offers monumental Glass symphony 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Though she has always been forthright, Ms. Pelletier said that after battling cancer, she decided she was done with “superficial nicety.” The Pill Helped Start the Sexual Revolution. What Will Phexxi Do? 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z It was also deeply critical of the magazine's continued use of Johnson, whose work they claim is "often stacked with the superficial and the racist". Writers and academics protest over 'racist' LRB blogpost 2010-07-21T16:17:00Z Clearly, there’s enough raw material here for a book three times as long, but Allende’s graceful telling, although often breezy, never frays or grows superficial. Isabel Allende’s ‘The Japanese Lover’: A tale of history and romance 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Architecture is complex – it's not a superficial brand game. Kathryn Findlay, architect – portrait of the artist 2013-04-02T14:28:56Z “These were not superficial relationships, these were deep, meaningful relationships with my friends that were family,” she says, adding that she still considers Brandis one of her best friends. Soleil Moon Frye’s doc ‘Kid 90’ is a time capsule for Gen X 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z But the abundant, generally on-target sociological details and comic observations feel overdone and superficial, like an elaborately patterned rug laid over an unfinished floor. Review: Ethan Hawke Is Just Right as a ’90s Indie-Rocker in ‘Juliet, Naked’ 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z She doesn't subject herself to any examination, even on a superficial level,'' he said. Apparent Casey Anthony 'diary' surfaces online 2012-01-05T14:37:01Z To find out if he lined up with her less superficial ideal qualities, like kindness, she messaged him on Instagram to ask if he would be a guest on her podcast. She Heard His Voice and Found Her Soul Mate 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z Her avoidance of eye contact, her superficial charm and eerie disposition were what prompted me to call. Motherlode Blog: Foster Parenting Creates a Future, Without Erasing the Past 2013-01-27T14:41:46Z "Pagodas" was not for Britten superficial escapism but rather a farsighted experiment in musical equanimity by finding an arresting common ground between East and West, between Modernism and Romanticism. Benjamin Britten triumphs in San Francisco 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Shark Week is now nothing more than a week of very bad horror movies, and its regular programming features block after block of exploitive, superficial shows about rural communities engaging in wacky practices. “Eaten Alive,” Discovery’s newest attempt at entertainment, is despicable 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Waldie, who repeatedly draws the show back from the brink of easy and superficial readings of Los Angeles. What a big Ed Ruscha exhibition misses about Southern California 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The Marin County Sheriff’s office also said Williams, who was 63, suffered “acute superficial” cuts to his wrist, and a pocket blade was found near his body. Robin Williams Hanged Himself, Police Say 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Wealthy and aggrieved, dripping with gold chains and expensive sweatsuits, Barris’s character is self-absorbed and superficial. Kenya Barris Plumbs His Id to Reinvent the Family Comedy 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Up until March, the system was working for the majority of Americans, at least on a superficial level. Nine black artists reflect on the question: “Is America at a point of reckoning?” 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z "But these are just superficial and I believe the new generation of more rational audience members would like to see the real historical truth." China takes no chances on starry propaganda movie 2011-06-09T13:16:05Z Aside from the superficial modifications that had been made to adapt it to Paris, he said, the most noteworthy change in the adaptation had been a shift away from his stories’ gloomier tone. Parisian Love Stories for the Age of Talk Less, Message More 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Moments later, he’s working through his latest radio-eater, “Fake Love,” whining about how the respect he gets is superficial and untrue. Review | Drake is making background music, and it’s burying us alive 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Paull’s version of the hive’s extreme matriarchy is home to many kinds of females, strong and meek, thoughtful and superficial, forward-thinking and hidebound. Review of ‘The Bees’: Paull’s transfixing first novel exposes dangers of the hive mind Unpretentious, unspectacular and participatory in the least superficial of ways, Ms. Harrison’s “Perth Amboy” is just what MoMA needs right now. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Sophisticates, on the other hand, are supposed to attend to more or less abstract aspects like composition, color and style, without regard for subject matter or superficial feats of technique. Art Review: Sophisticates? Sketchbooks 2011-05-26T22:23:15Z They were never superficial and never calibrated to the “status” of another person. Seattle-area community members pay tribute to some of the cultural figures we lost in 2020 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z “It’s this superficial form of panacea weaponized by digital platforms, shortcuts for the stress of our world. They serve a simple function: to ‘chill out.’ Tim Hecker Helped Popularize Ambient Music. He’s (Sort of) Sorry. 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z “Skin” is a superficial and disappointing look at a person, a topic, and an organization that deserve a better, more nuanced portrayal than what Nattiv delivers. In "Skin," a neo-Nazi turns from hate: Good intentions can't redeem this disaster of a film 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z It suggests relatively superficial change, updates to surfaces and improvement to the amenities. Subtle changes make a big impression at the National Gallery East Building 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The questionnaire is funny because it is so superficial. Why is Greece's finest young director making London his home? 2012-11-11T18:00:01Z “That is the reality. I cannot go and say things in a very relaxed way as if that is not my responsibility. “People feel the right to judge other people in a very superficial way. The pitfalls and joys of taking a stand with music and with youngsters 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z Can “Midnight Traveler” stir conversation based on its narrative and aesthetic strengths, which are not superficial flourishes but indeed inseparable from how we observe the family unit? “Midnight Traveler” Expands the Narrative of the Refugee Documentary 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z So there's something always very superficial about spectacle in a commodified culture. Cornel West: Is America ‘even capable of treating the masses of Black people with decency and dignity’? 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z The standout story is literally superficial: the treatment of materials to make them shiny, crunchy or airy. Fashion Review: Then Comes the 4th Dimension 2012-09-30T17:54:41Z Culture, in the tradition of social analysis that took its lead from Karl Marx, was seen as a secondary and superficial aspect of human life. Eric Hobsbawm changed how we think about culture 2012-10-02T14:29:06Z Others said there was a collective yearning among gays for a female president that has little to do with Mrs. Clinton’s superficial Liza-appeal. Hillary Clinton’s Gay Rights Evolution 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Some people, he added, think that this is “a Danish thing,” to be “very deep and very superficial at the same time.” Review: Danish String Quartet Plays at the Rose Studio 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Ninety percent of these films, they actually reassure the viewer and allow the viewer to remain at a superficial level of emotion, by making it understandable, in effect, presenting the S.S. guard’s point of view. ‘Son of Saul’: An immersive portrait of life in a Nazi death camp 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z About girls, he reassures his young charges: “They’ve a great deal of superficial cleverness; but they couldn’t go far into anything.” ‘Shape’ Makes Geometry Entertaining. Really, It Does. 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Everyone wants to know what his deal is, but in a superficial way, a way that feeds a news cycle. Rep. Matt Gaetz wants you to know who he is, and his plan is working 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z If you had any in-jokes, refer to those, the more superficial the better. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: What to say to a co-worker who has a fatal disease? 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z The superficial glamour of “This American Wife” is alluring, the kind of eye candy a superfan might enjoy on the show. ‘This American Wife’ Review: Wives Out, Knives Out 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z In both sequels, the protagonists' superficial wants remain unsated; they're rejected in favour of the more profound unconscious hunger inside. John Yorke on why the best screenwriting works 2013-03-15T16:00:03Z A swift series of duets follows in which acrobatic lifts, rolls to the floor and yet more leg kicks maintain only a superficial impression of the music. Dance Review: Geneva Ballet and Melodrama at the Joyce 2014-03-26T21:09:38Z Her “Suicide Squad” co-stars described Ms. Robbie as a performer whose tenacity gets overlooked in a superficial glance. For Margot Robbie, the Hustle Never Stops 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z And in becoming safer, it's become both more conservative and more superficial. First book award shows appetite for serious reading 2010-12-01T20:00:00Z Yes, that is Steven Seagal popping up in the margins of "Like Water," a tepid, superficial sports documentary about Ultimate Fighting Championship middleweight king Anderson Silva. 'Like Water': Getting in the ring with fighters, but not in their heads 2012-05-31T20:18:08Z For, despite the city’s superficial swank, the Depression was still biting. Ted Peckham's 'Gentlemen For Rent' 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z These are other people's decisions about their own bodies that reflect the state of the person within, and so their partners can reasonably treat them as more than superficial. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Husband says if she cuts her hair short, it will ‘blow up’ their relationship 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z Often, they're pretty superficial, but occasionally when I flip through the pages, a shockingly personal story has been left. 7 must-read novels to transport you in February 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z But those observations were embedded in a sleek adventure — not mindless or superficial by any means, but more surface than depth, frothy and giddy. Review | In Neal Stephenson’s ‘Fall,’ there is life after death 2019-06-16T04:00:00Z Throughout the series, she succeeds by presenting as the most superficial kind of "girl boss," a term largely credited to Sophia Amoruso, the founder of the online clothing retailer Nasty Gal. How Apple TV+'s "Mythic Quest" is subverting empty girlboss culture 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z It is clear that Leonard knows his trade, but Moore, who won an Oscar for his screenplay for "The Imitation Game," fails to provide anything more than superficial characters. Mark Rylance is the one reason to try on "The Outfit," a crime drama that looks better than it feels 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z These superficial issues might be less in the conversation when the movie hits later in the year. Cannes: Cate Blanchett-starring lesbian romance 'Carol' true to period 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z In “Ballo,” Verdi juxtaposed chilling dramatic episodes, focused on the plot among conspirators to assassinate the king, with oddly lighter scenes depicting the superficial strivers at court. Review: James Levine Conducts a Noirish Verdi at the Metropolitan Opera 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z In Lurie’s hands, overgeneralized, superficial passages are as common as bland government office buildings in Washington. ‘The Language of Houses’ by Alison Lurie often speaks in paper-thin generalities The film version, however, is much like them: thin, superficial and sentimental. One Day ? review 2011-08-27T23:05:52Z It seems like you're approaching it with a great deal of seriousness and intelligence and thought, and yet the perception I think is often very much more superficial than that. Get to know Griffin Gluck, your next new favorite boy next door with a dark side 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z But only in the final scenes does the play drop the cheeky, superficial feel of an animated coloring book that has been aggressively scribbled in by a mischievous kid. Theater Review: David Adjmi’s ‘Marie Antoinette’ at Yale Repertory Theater 2012-11-12T17:08:56Z Like Keys’s decision to no longer wear makeup in public, the album is in part a pushback against phony, superficial perfection. Alicia Keys, on and Off the Digital Grid 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Toby compels our empathy, but something glib and superficial about his sections can strain the connection. “Fleishman Is in Trouble” Turns the Marriage Novel Inside-Out 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Efforts to diversify museums often fail in a similar way, making superficial additions without really involving their existing collections. Teaching a New Inclusiveness at The School 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z As a fan of R&B music, I'm tired of this superficial music that I've been hearing especially from R&B so maybe it's timing, it's just the right time. A Minute With: R&B singer Miguel in the spotlight after Grammys 2013-03-13T15:19:38Z “Maybe I’m just too superficial to be properly depressed,” he says. T Magazine: Rupert Everett Is So Not An American Movie Star 2013-05-10T13:00:54Z No one needs another superficial film equivalent of an ad campaign for female empowerment. What ‘WandaVision’ Gets Right (and Wrong) About Female Superheroes 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z If both shows borrow the superficial structure of macho procedurals, they subvert the genre with bonkers crises, deep kindness and ensembles that lean on queer characters, characters of color, women over 40. When the World Feels Like a Disaster, ‘9-1-1’ Is on Call 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Even the chatter about the world of local TV news sounds superficial. Good acting can’t save ‘Now Comes the Night’ at 1st Stage 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Her own book would be less superficial if she devoted some thought to how and why “Gatsby” spoke to these men. 'When Books Went to War’ by Molly Guptill Manning 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z “It was often played in a very superficial way,” Muti said, “so I think that at a certain point, the public had had enough.” What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z The first haute couture collection by Marco Zanini was a fine effort, using the codes of the house, but not in a superficial way. Fashion Review: In Paris, Schiaparelli Returns to Couture 2014-01-20T14:47:27Z It is a refuge that offers particular comfort to the bereaved around the holidays, when festive parties are filled with superficial chatter and social media feeds are flooded with idyllic Instagrams. ‘Like therapy, but better’: The holiday dinner party that makes space for grief 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Combine that with an even broader unease around fashion, with its whiff of indulgence and the superficial, and the insecurity and fear of not being seen as “serious” grows. It Was an Ad? So What. It’s Still Art. 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z And speaking of superficial, rust clearly doesn't deter some thieves — my anti-theft stickers didn't prevent the bike from being taken. How I stole my bike back (and what I learned about anti-theft measures along the way) 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z It is very easy to say that this character, Eric Packer, is vampire or a werewolf of Wall Street, But really that's rather superficial. Pattinson leaves vampires behind in 'Cosmopolis' 2012-05-27T11:46:05Z The resulting show aimed to represent highlights of the past 50 years, but was widely panned as too glitzy, too superficial and too long. Music Center's next boss, Rachel Moore, gets bravos from L.A. arts leaders 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z But the actresses’ conscientious objection helped publicize a Twitter campaign, #AskHerMore, advocating for interviewers to go beyond the supposedly superficial, sexist question, “Who are you wearing?” followed by the obligatory: “Stunning! You look stunning!” Farewell, Mani Cam. On the Red Carpet, Things Turn Serious. 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Even in the most stylistically attuned hands, Liszt’s Ballade No. 2 in B Minor risks coming across as overwrought, and Fujita’s traversals of the keyboard sounded superficial rather than splashy. Review: A Young Pianist Finds His Way to Carnegie Hall 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z But because it doesn’t peer very deeply into the souls of these spoiled, marginally sympathetic narcissists, whose ties to one another seem superficial, its commercial future in America seems problematic. Movie Review: ‘Little White Lies,’ From Guillaume Canet, With Jean Dujardin 2012-08-23T21:35:51Z While their identification of the political party of most major municipal governments is largely accurate, their assumption that the governance of America’s cities is leftist or progressive is superficial, shallow, and simply wrong. The absurd outrage over Jussie Smollett 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z How superficial I'd been, anointing her the slimmer, prettier wife who won the husband prize. A spy in the house of my first love 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z But she also seems to have embraced the more superficial pleasures of gaudy, earthly delights. Lana Del Rey Plunges Into the Deep, but Never Abandons the Shallow 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z The divas and cavaliers of this all-male troupe are — as they present themselves to us in performance — fabulously stupid, artificial, hammy, clichéd, superficial, dated, monstrous. Review: The Trocks Delight With Fabulous Charm 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z There is superficial goodwill among neighbors, but visible panic and bigotry in the margins of daily life. 'Life, Above All' ? measured tale of AIDS in South Africa 2011-08-19T16:10:05Z All of this provides plenty of opportunities to be pat, glib or superficial but Burkeman never takes them. The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman - review 2012-06-22T21:55:03Z This gives the book a set of glib students who get their opinions from cable news and whose superficial political debates give Mr. Rachman much to skewer. ‘The Rise and Fall of Great Powers,’ by Tom Rachman 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z There is only so much that actors can do to bring depth to superficial storytelling, but they have built characters with palpable interior lives that we only wish the play would let us in on. Review: In ‘Mr. Toole,’ Trying to Remember Teacher 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z It's dangerously close to a rather superficial kind of musical tourism. Jerusalem 2010-05-17T20:45:00Z I loved the thoughts in the film about tourism, and how it is "superficial." "Havana is . . . the fantasy of Americans": Filmmaker on capturing the "utopia" of Cuba in new doc 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z He's quick to dismiss superficial similarities to Moon, in particular the scenes in which Gyllenhaal grapples with his sanity in an isolation capsule. SXSW 2011: Duncan Jones on Source Code 2011-03-13T17:05:00Z But it’s a superficial tie, and the show’s tone and style swerve between the more solemn family material and the more comic love story. ‘Life & Beth’ Review: Further Inside Amy Schumer 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z It’s not as if this superficial accounting of his offenses offered evidence of renewed credibility. Movie Review: In ‘A Fragile Trust,’ Jayson Blair Tries to Give Answers 2014-04-10T23:48:14Z A superficial reason is that, owing to a generous moment of confusion by Royal Mail, I have several copies in a handsome Folio Society edition. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z The result is a frustratingly superficial look at a smart, driven and sometimes frightened young man who always felt as though he were “racing against time.” Movie Review: ?Better Than Something,? a Documentary About Jay Reatard 2012-03-02T01:38:40Z This gives “A Burning Hot Summer” the superficial aspect of a mystery, even if its deeper enigmas turn on secrets of the heart. Movie Review: Philippe Garrel’s ‘Burning Hot Summer,’ With Monica Bellucci 2012-06-28T23:21:23Z They hang on to really superficial things and they think, for example, plenty of players want to see that one gameplay moment or this one gun from the game. Can ‘The Last of Us’ Unlock a Gaming Gold Mine for TV? 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Yeah," he says, "we've really struggled with the idea that it's just dance music, so it's superficial. !!! keep the party going with Thr!!!er 2013-04-26T13:00:00Z The most innocent and precious and wonderful of gifts on this earth and people are fighting and killing each other about it over such superficial reasons. Gather ’round the Jim James campfire: “I have this weird apocalyptic vision of once the power goes out” 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Patterns of construction that underlie a superficial urban diversity often look strange — alienating, mostly, in these emotionally blank photographs. Ulrich Wüst at Christopher Grimes Gallery: A portrait of obsolescence 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z However, only when that materialism is taken away do they worry, in only the most superficial way, about sexual hypocrisy and women's oppression. "Sex and the City 2's" stunning Muslim clich?s 2010-05-26T18:45:00Z Kennedy understands the superficial and builds her career accordingly. Review | Brit Bennett’s ‘The Vanishing Half’ is a fierce examination of passing and the price people pay for a new identity 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z But critics maintain that the strictures that have made cop shows good television limit their ability to respond to the moment in more than a superficial way. The Cop Show Enters the ‘Defund’ Era 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z The history in question, divided into five chapters, involves the Colombian drug trade from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, but the film defies narco-drama clichés and superficial period atmosphere. ‘Birds of Passage’ Review: An Epic Narco Tale That Will Open Your Eyes 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z This “Corsaire” is superficial and frivolous about everything from its depiction of Muslims to ballet’s own potential as an art of music drama. Dance Review: ‘Le Corsaire,’ American Ballet Theater 2013-06-05T22:00:27Z Some mental health professionals called Mr. Bradshaw’s ideas and his treatment methods glib and superficial, his courting of adulation unseemly. John Bradshaw, Self-Help Evangelist, Dies at 82 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Bean has had prior dalliances with capital F fashion, though these amounted mostly to superficial tweaks. Storming the Catwalk in an L.L. Bean Boot 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z Instead, directors like Sofia Coppola are interested in the satire of a cabal of superficial kids stealing from people who aren’t much different. Stealing screen time: Ocean's 8 and the rise of female crime gangs 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Security “is broken at a fundamental level,” says Park at Fourteenth owner Marc Barnes, who dismisses the Jan. 19 briefing as “superficial.” The Capitol may be ready for a terrorist attack. But is your favorite bar? 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Drag, instead of being radical, has become superficial, more about the makeup and the dress than the message. Taylor Mac defies all comparisons and adjectives, and he wants you to leave his shows exhausted 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z While the facilities and the hospitality that celebrities received at the Celebrity Centre went far beyond that which regular public Scientologists encountered, the differences weren’t just superficial. How Scientology ensnares celebrities 2013-02-07T01:00:00Z It’s not just the superficial depiction of Louis’s condition, or the facile depiction of racial dynamics, although those factors don’t help. ‘Delia’s Gone’ Review: A False Conviction in a Hardscrabble Town 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z "I thought if I would play Las Vegas, I would become superficial, but I transcended all that." Ghosts play with Carlos Santana at White River 2011-08-18T23:47:10Z As with tattoos, images that seem to be decoratively superficial are personal, political and ineradicable. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Yes, it’s superficial and, yes, it makes a difference. Can we talk about the senior citizens running for president and how they try to look younger? 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z There was some superficial context for concern about Kim, even if the story was vague about what exactly his health was. Kim Jong Un appears to be alive after all. So why did CNN and other news outlets report he was on his deathbed? 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z It’s pretty clear from the article that it is Gottlieb herself who has severed relationships over fairly superficial considerations and that it is she who is always secretly hoping for “someone better.” Is The Atlantic making us stupid? 2012-09-10T16:26:00Z In the end, the United Nations determined that, “You have to look beyond the superficial to her actions,” Mr. Nasser said. Is It Time for Wonder Woman to Hang Up Her Bathing Suit? 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Worsley’s comments about pulp writing in the 1930s are comically superficial. “The Art of the English Murder” is a great read, but light on historical sources More than that, it belittles the radicalism of Christianity in favour of a sweeping and superficial sameness. And Man Created God by Selina O'Grady - review 2012-12-20T07:00:02Z But the careful, superficial conventionality of those movies highlights the complexity of so many others. The Good, the Bad and ‘Black Panther’ 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z A superficial resemblance was helpful but not crucial — the goal was ultimately what Kusama called “a kind of energetic similarity, or a kind of soul match.” ‘Yellowjackets’ Leans in to Savagery 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z While the acting is great, so far the characters are little more than comic book sketches, behaving for very superficial reasons. Preacher: AMC's new hope dances between the diabolical and the divine 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z It does not transcend its artifice, and nothing feels true enough to matter — not phony, just superficial. Review: ‘A League of Their Own’ Broadens the Field 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z “Priscilla” however, seems a bit superficial in presenting all these images without much behind them. "Priscilla": Sofia Coppola delivers a sympathetic but ultimately suffocating portrait 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z For the girls — mostly pretty smart, though also profoundly and willfully superficial — fat people are to be pitied, obviously, but empathized with, too. A School Where the Student Body Is Obsessed With Student Bodies 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Yet it turns out that Stern’s series was knocked for being superficial too -- and for being awed by rich people and their glittering stuff. KCET's 'Cool Spaces!' offers earnest, enthused tour of new architecture 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z A successful politician, Mr. Doonan wrote in Slate, must appear Prada-oblivious: “Any hint of dandyism or vanity would indicate a superficial, self-indulgent character.” The Fashion Conservatives 2010-10-20T22:33:00Z The authorities found a pocket knife with dried blood on it and superficial wounds on Mr. Williams’s left wrist, Lt. Williams Found Hanged to Death, Official Says 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z There are no judgmental eyes, no identifying markings that associate people with a particular fashion tribe, no superficial biases. Perspective | Inside the virtual fashion party scene, where supermodels may materialize and your clothes don’t matter 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z But for President Trump, known for his vanity, there may be a more superficial reason for avoiding a First Canine. Why doesn’t Trump have a dog — and should he get one? Experts weigh in 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z After all that time, it’s sad to report that the show, while no longer a “Downton” prequel, looks like a slacker and more superficial rehashing of character types and situations familiar from the earlier series. ‘The Gilded Age’ Review: Dime-Store ‘Downton’ 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z The faces of the remaining two are obscured, but based on a few superficial context clues — longer hair, shorter stature — these workers might be women. Perspective | I don’t think ‘hardcore’ means what Elon Musk thinks it does 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, "To Rome with Love" lives up - or rather, lives down - to the superficial postcard sentiment of its title. Review: Allen's 'Rome' delivers lackluster love 2012-06-19T19:16:05Z The challenge is to bring to the surface something that is not boringly superficial. Avedon at 100: Photos of Seduction 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z I once had a book sent to me that was disrupting my ability to write a novel because of a superficial similarity between the two. How Jeff VanderMeer Prevents Writer’s Block 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z But some TV critics say "The Real World" has become increasingly superficial, and a showcase for bad behavior. At 25, MTV's "Real World" challenged to stay fresh 2011-03-08T18:24:50Z The pleasures offered by these riffs may be fleet and superficial, but they’re a welcome break from the leaden romance that surrounds them. | 'Looking at Christmas': Holiday Windows Dress Up a Romance 2010-12-07T16:48:00Z In between, works by contemporaries complicate superficial ideas about his meteoric genius, and small, delicate drawings teem with an abundance of ideas — paintings never made, thoughts adumbrated then abandoned. Review | Not every Leonardo is in the huge Leonardo da Vinci exhibition. What’s at the Louvre, though, is brilliant. 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z It continued to impress in Toronto although some pushback began and negative reviews started to flood in, criticising its superficial emptiness and potentially worrying effect on what’s set to be a massive audience. J-Lo for the win? Taking an early look at Oscars 2020 frontrunners 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z But the point of that demonstration is that a hoodie doesn’t really define a person–in the bigger picture, it’s superficial and a distraction. Geraldo Rivera Opens Hoodie, Inserts Foot in Mouth 2012-03-23T18:02:18Z The past-present parallelism is provocative, but it also seems faintly superficial — a way of eliding distinctions and streamlining history. ‘Blue Island’ Review: In Hong Kong, the Past Is Present 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z But unlike so many films and television series of late, it isn’t a superficial layer tacked onto the story. Whether Dancing or Still, the Body in ‘Ema’ Tells the Story 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Here are a few places I went that gave me, by the end, a much deeper, yet still quite superficial, understanding of a complicated country. A Crash Course in Armenian History 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The juxtaposition of his superficial lifestyle with his brutal dark side makes for a satirical slasher movie. Scarecrow suggests | Like 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps'? Take stock of other DVDs that explore the dangers of greed 2010-09-23T22:26:00Z Most of us don't train our ears, we just hear the superficial sounds. Stevie Wonder: jammin' with the jazz set 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z The picture-perfect images on Instagram’s news feeds are so potent that they cement these superficial and harmful values into adolescent brains without them even knowing it, Kite says. Instagram is even worse than we thought for kids. What do we do about it? 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z But the superficial silliness of the works belie Ms. Khalil’s intelligence and compassion. Scene/Seen: Things Are Happening in Hamra 2010-10-01T17:30:00Z And some in the art world worry that the current enthusiasm for buying Black artists, showing Black art and hiring Black staff members will be superficial and short-lived. ackNew Gagosian Director Spotlights Black Artists Involved in Social Change 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z It was immature, it was clichéd, it was superficial, and I was truly incapable of penetrating deeper into my own consciousness, where the essence of a writer was to be found. At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z To recap, Mitchell wrote a column saying he disagreed with the idea of the government regulating the press; Coogan responded calling it “ill-informed and superficial dross”. David Mitchell: ‘I see myself as a coward’ 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The film is utterly taken with the superficial, which it seems to be trying almost to vaunt into a system of post-Nietzschean values. Frothy "Heartbeats" fun, if not taken too seriously 2010-05-18T04:35:00Z This is good news, because most people are so superficial they wouldn’t even pass for powdered sugar. The Bachelor season 20 finale recap: happiness belongs to superficial people 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z "A clear majority of us thought the Flanagan book was superficial, showy and pretentious and we disdained it," he told the Sydney Morning Herald. Australian prime minister causes literary prize uproar 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Critics consider these tests to be superficial and argue that they ignore other kinds of intelligence such as emotional intelligence or deeper traits such as wisdom. Are humans getting smarter? 2013-06-03T20:25:00Z Some initiatives this year, she added, are more superficial, and taxing on Black artists who worry they are being politicized or reduced to their race. Orchestras Are Rushing to Add Black Composers. Will It Last? 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, she describes herself as “one of the cowards,” someone who was too “dumb” and “superficial” to grasp what was going on around her. Goebbels’s Secretary Struggles With Her Responsibility 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z If a superficial choice is made, then it’s very annoying. Paul Dano on acting, love and embarrassing parents: 'They have way too many pictures of me' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z By the time he gets to the US, Baron Cohen is in full flow, the superficial ingenuousness of his creation opening all sorts of doors. Borat: No 2 2010-10-18T10:52:00Z Admittedly, she made the most of that quality in “Bridesmaids,” in which she played a superficial, slightly snobby character; I found her Slavic-accented froideur opposite Melissa McCarthy in “Spy” similarly amusing and deceivingly well calibrated. Is it possible to be fair to actors we simply, irrationally just don’t like? 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z This oddball monologue moves from somber to superficial as quickly as it does from high to lowbrow. Critic’s Notebook: Julie Klausner’s Podcast, ‘How Was Your Week?’ 2012-12-31T23:26:34Z “There is nothing superficial, artificial, phony about anything he says, or the way he teaches or choreographs.” The Choreographer Alonzo King: No Fancy Plans, Just Dance 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z MTV’s Sweet/Vicious, meanwhile, takes two college stereotypes – the superficial sorority sister and the slacker-stoner – and turns them into masked vigilantes who administer after-hours vengeance on campus rapists. Lena Dunham’s Girls: the show that turned TV upside down 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z He finally brought out his hatchet to attack "a surprisingly short and superficial life, which unearths little, if any, new information and has not much of interest to say about the writing". Book reviews roundup: What the critics thought of: Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Julian Barnes's Levels of Life and Lorna Gibb's West's World: The Extraordinary Life of Dame Rebecca West 2013-04-05T15:03:01Z It’s both a superficial question and a profound one. “The Bachelor” is still for white people: A sour fairy tale, fed to millions, that keeps prizing whiteness above all 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z But don't let the superficial stuff blind you to his increasing prowess as a comedian. This week's new comedy 2011-01-08T00:06:34Z “The people here are so much friendlier and so much less superficial than back in London,” she said. Overnighter: The Secret Little Sister of the Italian Lakes 2012-09-20T16:21:42Z It is a superficial choice for people who pretend to reject superficial choices. The ‘Credibility Bookcase’ Is the Quarantine’s Hottest Accessory 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z And, Abareshi said, “There is a real expectation by the public to find some superficial positivity within the disabled experience, a portrayal that follows notions of empowerment or emancipation.” As People Reflect on Their Bodies, Museums Turn to Artists for Answers 2021-03-24T04:00:00Z “The Fourth Estate,” which chronicles 16 months in the life of The New York Times, is reasonably competent, but it’s also superficial and oblivious a little more often than one might like. Review: ‘The Fourth Estate’ Is a Competent but Incomplete Peek Inside The Times 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z This judgment is understandable, but it’s also superficial. In Frank Lloyd Wright Country, Architecture and Apple Pie 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z They will cover developments in the campaign on a more superficial level. Perspective | Mike Bloomberg just stabbed the journalistic heart of his news organization 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z The videotape is a small trivial part of the story, it is unimportant — a superficial, tabloid story. Making "Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn" required a "banal" sex tape to test how we police each other 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z But David's vision of Thermopylae is no superficial glorification of war. The art of war cuts both ways | Jonathan Jones 2010-03-22T11:41:00Z Unlike broadcasts by the Bolshoi and, best, those of the Royal Ballet, introductory and intermission talks were largely superficial. Dance Review: ‘Swan Lake’ From Mariinsky Ballet, Broadcast Live 2013-06-10T22:31:51Z His flat, uninflected rectangles of solid color bore superficial resemblance to 1960s Minimalist art, which they predated by nearly a decade. Go to LACMA for John McLaughlin, possibly the most important postwar artist you don't know 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z “He was super handsome and had that Caribbean look to him, and I just melted. It was totally superficial.” A Quadruple Amputee’s First Vow: To Walk Down the Aisle 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Despite the smirky wit and rogue attitude that gave Bond the superficial appearance of a rebel, he was a government employee furthering the interests of the remains of the British empire. Assange: Bond villain -- or Bourne? 2010-12-03T16:04:00Z Where Bridget was formerly the product of a culture worth deflating, here she’s above what passes, half-heartedly, as the movie’s target—the young, superficial hipsters who have taken over at the office. Bridget Jones Abandons Irony 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z The film is superficial in the purest sense: it looks wonderful, but so much visual cleverness overpowers the imagination, blocking it from doing any deeper work. Whimsy and War: Boris Vian’s Two Minds 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z For magic will gift you superficial momentum, true, but only while reducing the power of the quotidian. On Loony Island, a Malignant Priest Strips Mental Patients of Free Will 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z That’s not simply a superficial statement about whether her makeup was well done or if her hairstyle was flattering. Perspective | The Oscars red carpet was diverse, even if the nominees weren’t 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z That should still leave room for shagginess, the instinct to wander through obscure back alleys of imagination regardless of their superficial relevance. Extended scares: in defense of the two-hour-plus horror movie 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z In helping others, the protagonist “reclaims something of her younger self: a bolder, messier person than the superficial one she’d become.” 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z But much of the rest is unclear, particularly the almost unfathomable series of coincidences and superficial similarities that may or may not tie together Mod's clandestine beginnings, and scores of later happenings. Mod: A Very British Style by Richard Weight – review 2013-03-14T10:00:01Z Before the revolution, he says, "art was limited, aimless, superficial, due to the regime's pressure to keep societal issues away from our work." 'This is freedom' ? visual art and the Egyptian uprising 2011-07-19T20:41:00Z Will "Night at the Museum" director Shawn Levy keep the action humming along at a light, superficial pace? Tina Fey and Steve Carell save this "Date Night" 2010-04-09T11:01:00Z But his greatest creation may be a broadcaster named Alan Partridge, a man whose Wikipedia entry helpfully describes him as “an insecure, superficial and narcissistic ‘wally.’ ” Movie Review: ‘Alan Partridge,’ Starring Steve Coogan 2014-04-03T22:44:42Z “You know, superficial with a possible hidden heart, blah blah blah.” B.J. Novak Went to Texas Looking for ‘Vengeance’ and Found America 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z I always had a good superficial relationship with him. Walter Koenig: "Star Trek" is a welcome respite from the infamy of the Trump administration 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z But the Mexican elements are superficial, often just a bit of color or spice mixed into the standard avant-garde recipe. Artists helped make the Mexican revolution an international phenomenon 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z These relatively superficial aspects of Graham theater are central to “Snow on the Mesa.” Dance Review: Lauding a Great Artist With No Example of Her Greatness 2011-03-16T21:49:32Z Star knows people watch for that superficial dream, but he has never really liked it. Darren Star Finds Sex in Another City With ‘Emily in Paris’ 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z Each film, a whole fashioned from disparate pieces, offers an allegory for the nation itself, as a collective forged out of solidarity rather than superficial similarities. The Best Genre Movies of 2022 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z But of course, they are automatons, and it’s impossible to care about any of these characters, all of them cobbled together from a superficial trawling of 19th-century theatrical and literary archetypes. A musical whose time has gone: Three Post critics take on ‘Phantom’ 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z That will restore a superficial measure of the dignity to railway travel that was lost in 1963 when the old Pennsylvania Station was torn down. Architecture: A Proposal for Penn Station and Madison Square Garden 2012-02-08T16:59:06Z But the clothes are just the superficial signifier of preppiness; the movies are about much more. Cheap chic ruined us 2012-06-13T11:45:00Z Segal could have played Brooks in any number of ways that would have made him out to be selfish, superficial, creepy and downright predatory. Jessica Walter and George Segal personified a time when movies grew up 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z As the reminiscences assembled in last year’s enjoyable but superficial “Life Isn’t Everything: Mike Nichols, as Remembered by 150 of His Closest Friends” attest, many people loved Nichols, but few truly knew him. Review | ‘Mike Nichols: A Life’ is a shrewd, in-depth examination of the elusive man behind the polished facade 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Christian and I loved that this man was an artist, constructing his identity, not just at a superficial level but at a soul level. David O. Russell: In Conversation 2013-12-11T10:00:15Z Not to suggest that Mr. Carter’s earlier music was superficial, but his writing here is calmer and more deeply probing. Music Review: Axiom at Alice Tully Hall - Review 2011-12-13T23:30:15Z Forró also bears a superficial resemblance to salsa, Ms. Araújo added, in that both genres are meant to “make you move your body, raise some dust and leave you sweaty and smiling.” Forró Events at Lincoln Center and Brasil Summerfest 2012-07-12T21:52:24Z Throughout this autobiography by one of America’s most acclaimed designers of the 1990s, his innovation and confidence are evident, contrasting with an industry that, despite its superficial fickleness, can be deeply resistant to change. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z While the single hinted at a superficial sentiment, Gangsta Boo said in an interview with HipHop DX in 2014 that it also touched on the pressures of motherhood and raising a child. Gangsta Boo, Memphis Rapper Formerly With Three 6 Mafia, Dies at 43 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z But that can also result in very superficial efforts by Hollywood to just check off boxes and to have a brown or black face on the screen to fill a quota, real or imagined. Losing “Hap and Leonard” in the Trump age: “This show was an inoculation for some people” 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z The New York Daily News crowned her “the least superficial actress ever.” Skin Deep: Unshaven Women: Free Spirits or Just Unkempt? 2010-04-12T22:39:00Z Stone’s work, it must be said, tailed off after “Damascus Gate”; his 2003 novel “Bay of Souls” is superficial, overblown, while “Prime Green” reads as oddly second hand. Remembering Robert Stone 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Value yourself for more than some transient, superficial aesthetic. The G2 panto: Snow White and the wiki witch 2010-12-22T08:00:03Z Having made such richly rewarding music, it's no surprise Abdel-Hamid is sick of her background being used to label her in the most superficial ways. Ikonika: the woman pushing dubstep forward 2010-04-08T22:20:00Z Interview will be a place where you can find very superficial things and very challenging thinking. Mel Ottenberg Takes Over Interview Magazine as Top Editor 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z A doctor found only superficial injuries, and deputies observed no injuries on the man after the incident, the document states. Justin Bieber won't face battery charge for May encounter 2012-11-21T19:10:32Z The locals can easily distinguish between a tourist who seeks instant gratification and superficial “adventure,” and a traveler, who takes the time and effort to foster mutual intercultural respect in his destination of choice. Letters: Letters: Travelers, Not Tourists 2011-03-25T18:55:00Z It’s Hamsterdam with a profit motive, a moneymaking scam that has the superficial effect of “cleaning up” the streets. ‘The Deuce’ Season 1, Episode 6: ‘Housecleaning’ 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z The super-marathon may bring viewers together once again, in whatever superficial manner TV is able to. South Park and the Pleasures of a TV-Show Marathon 2013-09-23T18:45:16Z Disconsolate harmonies reminiscent of Bartók's "Concerto for Orchestra" offered fitful interest, but the work lost its way amid superficial brooding. A Polish accent to L.A. Phil New Music Group's Green Umbrella program 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z But as with the show’s first part, this segment gives us an almost achingly ordinary-seeming type — the narcissistic, superficial urban singleton — and strips it to its disquieting core. Hate, Hope and Healing at Under the Radar 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z “Her role as first lady of the United States and all that she does is much more important than some superficial photo shoot and cover,” Grisham said at the time. Stephanie Grisham is Trump’s communications czar. Only most people wouldn’t know it. 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z I wonder if you think there’s something superficial or misleading about the way psychological experiments, psychological discoveries, are reported in the popular press and in popular books like Malcolm Gladwell’s. How to be happier and have fewer regrets: Stop buying stuff and start doing things 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Like the story’s superficial finger-wagging at American wrongs, the brutality is both decorative and ritualistic. ‘The Suicide Squad’ Review: Train Them! Excite Them! Arm Them! 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z A common criticism of workplace wellness programs is that they offer a superficial solution to more deeply rooted institutional problems, including a 24/7 work culture, unmanageable workloads and unpredictable schedules. Can Wellness Heal the Workplace? 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Has a member of that profession ever been anything but manipulative and superficial in a rom-com? Review: In ‘Evolution of Mann,’ Fumbling Cuteness Goes Only So Far 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z “There is a lot of marzipan here. Marzipan is the glaze you put on a cake, a superficial glazed layer. It’s all marzipan, it’s all optics.” Monsieur Vogue Is Leaving Trumpland 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z SR: In talking about the gun control debate, you say “Gun skeptics who want to push measures that actually might slow a crazed killer should focus on ammunition capacity, not the superficial appearance of firearms.” America’s favorite handgun 2012-09-23T15:00:00Z Again, Cameron's immersion in the Chippy Set indicates, at least to onlookers, a refusal to discriminate on the superficial grounds of taste and elegance. JK Rowling is wrong: it's money, not class, that we worship 2012-09-29T23:01:17Z And naive, in a sort of superficial way. Composer Thomas Adès: 'Wagner is a fungus' 2012-09-28T21:48:01Z “People always say, ‘It must be so great because you’re not superficial.’ What Is It About Dating Shows Where Contestants Can’t See Each Other? 2021-07-19T04:00:00Z It’s built to have a sort of superficial narrative layer and then this subterranean thematic space that you can put anything you’re interested in, and that’s what makes it fun. How Steven Soderbergh and Ed Solomon Straightened Out ‘Full Circle’ 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Luckily, he moves in circles – techno, Cologne, underground nightclubs – where none of that superficial detail matters. Bozzwell ? the enlightenment 2010-12-27T12:32:54Z I assess superficial hydration, then measure skin elasticity, pigmentation and sebum. | Dr. Philippe Allouche on the Bio-Lift Facial 2012-12-20T22:35:38Z It’s rather that, in Antonioni’s world, the superficial and the profound cannot quite be distinguished. | 'Le Amiche': A 1955 Antonioni Movie Gets a Film Forum Run 2010-06-17T21:57:00Z Unfortunately that also gives the program, which each week examines the cornerstones of cherished American fast food and the ingredients that go into them, a superficial feel. 2010-01-21T04:45:00Z Do they really need to hear some actor living their best life go on a 15-second superficial tear about the state of the universe? Perspective | The Golden Globes red carpet showed it’s okay to delight in fashion rather than just tolerating it 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z The inner logic of Morgan's statements and his sure self-knowledge, as well as his rejection of the consumer society's superficial trappings, mark him as the only sane character. Jon Savage celebrates the film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment 2011-02-10T21:45:01Z “If a superficial choice is made, then it’s very annoying,” he said. Paul Dano: a resolutely hexagonal peg in the square hole of showbusiness 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Guided walks are much different than the superficial visiting a traveler gets with iPods and guidebooks. The World's Best City Walks 2010-08-18T22:45:00Z I realize this is a totally superficial and selfish goal, but I literally can’t stop thinking about it. Raskolnikov seeks mentor 2013-04-03T00:00:00Z Thursday, as a superficial if very earnest example of the dumbing down of American culture. KCET's 'Cool Spaces!' offers earnest, enthused tour of new architecture 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z A later doctor's evaluation indicated "minor swelling" to the photographer's right cheek and "redness" on his lower abdomen but labeled the injuries "superficial." Justin Bieber will not face charges from paparazzo run-in 2012-11-22T00:38:02Z Praz sees this approach as decadent and superficial, and points out that the author’s main interest is “decorative.” T Magazine: Small Museums 2014-03-20T22:06:31Z Among these are a superficial sense of history — remember how girls used to wear their hair? remember nuclear disarmament? — and, more seriously, a late, disastrous dive into the deep end of weepitude. | 'One Day': Emma and Dex and July 15 2011-08-18T12:00:00Z At a superficial level, the story of the iPhone is troubling. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z Her New York is superficial, indistinct from the hip streets of any other city; we never get a glimpse of life beyond the world of the young, privileged class. Recycling old film: Two Tribeca features — with “Girls” ties — do so to opposite effect 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z The songs we haven't heard, apart from the terrific The Morning, are slovenly and superficial. Readers' reviews: Muse, Kanye West Presents GOOD Music, Bloc Party 2012-10-01T17:17:06Z Then there is the way Hawaii and its indigenous people are used as an evocative, superficial backdrop for the troubles of white people. Review: ‘Aloha,’ a Hangout Movie With Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone in Hawaii 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Shorter than a bad blind date and as sour as a vinegar Popsicle, “Young Adult” shrouds its brilliant, brave and breathtakingly cynical heart in the superficial blandness of commercial comedy. | 'Young Adult': Charlize Theron in ?Young Adult? - Review 2011-12-08T13:00:01Z At many crucial points, they’re given showy, superficial Soviet revisions of the original choreography, depriving the opposite heroines of ambiguity and depth. Opposites Who Reveal Ballet’s Expressive Range 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z For him, he explained, an installation also was about making the presentation of fashion “less superficial.” Special Report: Fashion: Presentations Reflect Berlin's Artistic Mode 2011-03-10T08:30:50Z Instead, its lessons are grim: In retrospect, civil rights victories seem superficial, while the brutal poverty and racism Moody described endures. “Coming of Age in Mississippi” still speaks to nation’s racial discord 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z The things I do enjoy are superficial, such as a TV show or a good piece of chocolate. Carolyn Hax: Tired of living without joy 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z At a superficial level it is stunning, violent entertainment, but its study of how the development of apparently intelligent robots could dehumanise their creators makes it a philosophical speculative fiction of the highest order. From Buffy to Boardwalk Empire: your favourite boxsets ever 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z There's lots of tension and loads of very funny banter, and it even bears a superficial similarity to Willis Hall's Malayan jungle drama, The Long and the Short and the Tall. The Empire 2010-04-09T21:15:00Z Yet it’s hard not to see Amis’ cautionary maxim at work in Cross’ comedy about our media culture of superficial celebrity and viral videos. ‘Hits’: Satire of our fame-obsessed culture misses mark 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z Kit is even more sunnily superficial, a perverse throwback to that standard Western-movie hero, “the affable man with the gun.” Review | Films that offer a surprising reflection of U.S. foreign policy 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z Betty must show her co-workers the value of integrity and goodness, so that they too may find depth in their superficial lives. Your next box set: Ugly Betty 2011-04-08T07:00:02Z Unfortunately, the likeness of the works on view in the painting galleries seems superficial by contrast. Perspective | Bill Viola’s videos show what art can do and expose what the Barnes Collection lacks 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Watch and you find Mr. Wevers is interested in only the most superficial aspects of the music’s timing. Dance Review: Olivier Wevers’s Whim W’Him Tweaks Conventions at the Joyce 2013-08-14T20:32:22Z Now she says she’s much less concerned with the superficial stuff. Miley Cyrus: 'You Can Just Be Whatever You Want to Be' 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z And Mr. Cooper called it “a superficial whitewash of a situation that was and remains far uglier and more damaging than his film lets on.” Asia Argento and Others Are Angry About Being in JT LeRoy Documentary 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z When people aren't getting to know the world through literature but through the news, they become more superficial, and contemporary society becomes an "uncivilised civilisation". Li Er: the future of the novel in China 2013-03-15T15:49:26Z You didn’t say what was discussed – did you keep it fairly superficial? My 10-year-old has started sleeping in my bed. Am I wrong to allow it? 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z Less problematic gay issues, but ones that struck a deep chord with me, include the unusually sophisticated knowledge of superficial cultures – pop music, fashion or film, for example – among many gay men. Pride and prejudice for gay men 2011-02-20T00:05:13Z There was nothing superficial about it, no sentiment, no questioning. George Shaw 2011-02-13T00:05:02Z In a way, it’s curious to treat a superficial social scene so seriously. Review: In This Opera, You Can Depart, but You Can Never Leave 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z His sporadic, superficial attempts at contact also fit the profile of someone grasping for ways to contact you that don't trigger a spousal crackdown. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Is your father lax about staying in touch, or is his new wife in the way? 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z “Political Animals” may be super fun, but it is also superficial. “Political Animals”: Hillary Clinton gets her starring role 2012-07-12T17:50:00Z The act of being creative, sharing information, reinforcing our affiliations and identities, projecting our moral values in the world is routed by the essentially superficial nature of the medium. Perspective | My month without social media: Less hunger, more time — and who cares about food trends, anyway? 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z "We were thinking about a fake superficial world and chaos." New music - Brandt Brauer Frick feat Om'Mas Keith – Plastic Like Your Mother 2013-03-07T16:38:30Z Because while there are shows that traffic in ethnic and religious stereotypes and promote superficial moral thinking, this simply isn't one of them. Homeland is not Islamophobic despite what some critics claim 2012-12-24T00:05:34Z In both books, as in much of Woodson’s work, words hold tremendous power, driving characters apart and, more often, bringing them together, providing the means to bridge differences, superficial and profound. ‘I Grew Up in a Southern Family — There Was a Lot of Talking’: Jacqueline Woodson on Her Two New Best Sellers 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z It provided ample, but often superficial, evidence of poverty and dangerous living conditions — for example in Jack Manning’s shot of fire escapes teeming with residents during an Elks Parade. Art Review: ?The Radical Camera? at the Jewish Museum - Review 2011-12-22T23:21:54Z Décor is only the most superficial layer of what I find motivating about staying in Airbnbs and short-term rentals in general. Decoding Your Airbnb: Adventures in Voyeurism 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z After doing this, we placed everyone on a pecking order based on prejudicial judgments made according to the few superficial attributes that were in the facebook – a face, a smile, a name. Facebook's greatest weapon: endless comparison of ourselves to others 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z If you’re a man, big biceps are probably the easiest and most superficial way to signal your manliness to the world. My skinny arm complex 2012-12-16T01:00:00Z It seems the man behind such hits as Straight to the Bank, I Get Money and Piggy Bank is sick of attracting superficial suitors. Songs about cads, fads and ads 2010-03-24T16:25:00Z “Nothing superficial or online or that’s lied about can ever really validate you the way that a real human connection can.” Their songs and their names will linger in your ears: Pasek and Paul and 'Dear Evan Hansen' 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z As religion scholar David Chidester and others have observed, conservative Christian groups have historically complained about the superficial and amoral nature of American popular culture, with particular distaste for its music. Best Easter pageant ever? Half a century of "Jesus Christ Superstar" 2022-04-16T04:00:00Z What she didn’t have was good judgment in men, since she fell in love with a rich and superficial cad. Loving and Hating the Broadway Season: Our Critics Could Have Argued All Night 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z It’s also a dream of a code of conduct, binding mobsters together, horizontally and hierarchically, that offers a superficial air of aristocratic refinement and martial discipline to a crude and sanguinary business. Scorsese’s Achievement with “GoodFellas” 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z With little more than the superficial psychology of shallow characters to guide the movie’s squeamish images, “Like Me” irritates, but it proves unable to provoke more than mild gut reactions. Review: In ‘Like Me,’ Armed With a Camera and Queasifying Pranks 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Existing in a superficial lacquer of gay urban life, the A-Listers are models, were models, are trying to be models, deal with models or cut the hair of models. "The A-List": The triumph of vacuous gay culture 2010-10-05T13:01:00Z A bigger flaw is the author’s superficial treatment of the issues presented by the industry’s runaway growth. Punishingly profitable 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z "Its problem is that Raymond is too sleazy, comic and superficial a character to take on any kind of tragic grandeur," wrote Macnab, giving it three out of five stars. New film puts pioneer of London's sexy Soho back in spotlight 2013-04-16T16:48:45Z Believe me when I tell you that I’m not superficial. Abortion, a love story 2012-08-25T01:00:00Z Advertisement This nature-as-language theme is his great takeaway, a kind of challenge not just to be captivated by the superficial romance of the outdoors but to practice “landscape literacy,” to understand its constituent parts. Swedish Islands Offer an Escape From Stockholm 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z According to the curators, by “kicking at the boundaries of taste,” the dandy is indeed much more than the commonly criticized “superficial person devoted only to the outer shell.” | ‘Artist/Rebel/Dandy: Men of Fashion’ 2013-04-22T18:12:27Z A doctor's report on Hernandez-Duran found "minor swelling" to the photographer's right cheek and "redness" on his lower abdomen but labeled the injuries "superficial". Bieber scuffle charge is dropped 2012-11-22T11:22:49Z "It's a very superficial, banal little song that in my opinion does not convey the complexity of what the island of Sardinia is in its entirety," he says. A few miles from the caviar coast, the 'real' Sardinia sings a sad song of lost opportunity 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z The title change was hardly superficial for the playwright, Simon Stephens. Specializing in Secrets and Their Dear Cost 2012-10-07T05:00:06Z Russian apartment museums may occasionally look like American house museums, but it's a superficial resemblance. St Petersburg's homely tributes to Russia's great artists 2012-11-20T13:56:01Z I have only a superficial knowledge of Keynes's economic theory, but as the biographer of his wife, Lydia Lopokova, I do know about his marriage. Niall Ferguson should know that JM Keynes's marriage was happy – with plenty of sex 2013-05-06T12:13:56Z And though it's an undeniably silly comedy, it also offers more than a few trenchant gags about the self-absorbed, superficial side of our contemporary culture. 'Zoolander 2' confirmed at Fashion Week; will strut its stuff in 2016 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Time runs out before the characters have time to engage us on anything but a superficial level. | 'Tales of the City': When We Were Young and Gay, Under the Disco Ball 2011-06-17T23:12:12Z "The 11th Hour" seems to say all the trials to which Maria is subjected are worth it in some superficial way. '11th Hour' could use more time to reach its conclusion 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The idea that drama resides only in conflict is a superficial truth. Dinner Theater Performed Backstage, in the Kitchen 2011-08-17T12:00:05Z Really, I trusted Lauren Child to turn this embarrassingly superficial situation into one of her classically good moments and I was right. Ruby Redfort - Look Into My Eyes by Lauren Child - review 2012-05-21T08:00:00Z The bill passed despite his veto, and now Massachusetts is a dystopian drug-addled nightmare state keeping its populace cowed with the superficial satisfactions of sex and consumption. But I’m a good Mormon wife 2012-06-01T23:00:00Z But he praised Mendes for "throwing in far greater depth of characterization than we're accustomed to in a series of films that are often proudly superficial." James Bond soars in early "Skyfall" reviews 2012-10-13T00:27:11Z Since most royal women say little publicly, reading anything but the most superficial messages into their fashion raises questions of projection: Is the message theirs or one that viewers think we see? Fans of ‘The Crown’ want to know more about the Windsors. These five books should help. 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z But it would be foolish to push the similarities beyond the superficial. Movie Review: ‘Populaire,’ by the French director Régis Roinsard 2013-09-05T22:03:46Z She's caring and compassionate, and real, but, at the same time, she is superficial and cold. "Corsage" star Vicky Krieps says Austria's Empress Elisabeth had a "darkness that attracted me" 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z “It is instantaneous and relentless. You are making things redundant all the time and you are making things relevant all the time, but often in a very superficial way.” Behind the Scenes at British Vogue 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z It's not an irony that he works in musicals; it's ignorant to believe the form only works on a cheery, superficial level. Is Stephen Sondheim the Shakespeare of musical theatre? | Michael Ball 2010-03-29T15:41:00Z The women have been programmed to pursue superficial beauty, the men to run on an endless career treadmill. Ad absurdum and the conquest of cool: Canned flattery for corporate America 2013-12-22T12:00:00Z Plenty of musicians from outside the evangelical camp took at least a superficial interest in Christian themes. How Kennedy Center honoree Amy Grant has walked the line between "Christian" and "secular" music 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z The superficial resemblances between these two works are striking, though “Bullfight” — sorry, I mean “Bull” — turns out to be a far slimmer effort. Theater Review: Mike Bartlett’s ‘Bull,’ at 59E59 Theaters 2013-05-03T02:00:01Z American officials were initially committed to systematic denazification and decried the “superficial, disorganized and haphazard” efforts in the zones occupied by France, Britain and Soviet Russia. When Classical Music Was an Alibi 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z Like his show, the movie is both exciting and boring, full of information and superficial, vibrant with personality and impersonal. Jodie Foster's Boring and Exciting “Money Monster” 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z No, I’m not that much of a superficial person. Kerry Condon: ‘I Don’t Think Anything Has Ever Come Easy to Me’ 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z "Beastly" - Just as superficial and obsessed with looks as the characters and the mindset it rails against, which would seem like a bitter, frustrating irony if it merited the emotional reaction to care that much. Capsule reviews: 'Rango,' 'The Adjustment Bureau' 2011-03-03T20:03:25Z It was believed that a conventionally handsome and charming man couldn't possibly have done such terrible things — never mind that superficial charm is one of the tools in a psychopath's arsenal. Jeffrey Dahmer's disturbing newfound popularity, from offensive Halloween costumes to themed pizzas 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z It’s sort of a superficial way of valuing yourself. Guillermo del Toro on Strong Women and the Haunted House in 'Crimson Peak' 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Cara looks beyond her own troubles in “7 Days,” which complains to God about a deceptive, superficial society where reality gets flattering filters and “the antisocial media perpetuates the mess.” Alessia Cara: Young, Gifted and Bummed Out 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z In the 1920s, the great appeal of Modernist design lay in its embrace of an almost machine-made simplicity and its rejection of ornate decoration as not merely superficial but superfluous. Possessed: Christian Liaigre Is a Minimalist With a Taste for Ornate Coconuts 2012-10-19T23:12:24Z On some superficial level, Charlie Watts had always seemed the oddest Rolling Stone, the one who never quite fit as a member of rock’s most Dionysian force. Charlie Watts, the Unlikely Soul of the Rolling Stones 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z This shoves the movie away from the narrative ambiguity of Flynn’s novel, in ways that may seem superficial but are actually profound. “Gone Girl”: A dark marriage drama becomes a “battle-of-the-sexes” debate 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z And even with that they thought it'd be a sort of fairly superficial meet and greet with each other, but through the evening, events transpire that they're stuck driving home together. PBS' "Guilt" examines what happens to estranged brothers after they finally bond over killing someon 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z But within the class, the noisy action — all shade and byplay — is too often superficial. Review: In ‘Charm,’ Challenges Emily Post Never Dreamed Of 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z “Thematically shallow but stylistically rich,” Teo Bugbee wrote in The Times, “‘Thirst Street’ is best enjoyed with a hint of its heroine’s willfully superficial vision.” What’s on TV Saturday: The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction and ‘Warrior’ 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z The superficial traits of each character are tautly established, and they stick. Theater Review: ‘Port Out, Starboard Home,’ by Sheila Callaghan, at La MaMa 2012-11-18T22:11:15Z Neither the stage set of a chilled detention chamber nor the digitally impressive VR technology puts you into the grim action, except in a superficial way. In Alejandro G. Iñárritu's virtual reality film at LACMA, the immigrant's story finds its power from an unlikely place 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z This is a little disingenuous, but not wrong: in the most superficial sense, he alludes to real things. Dan Brown still can't write, but he deserves some respect 2013-05-16T11:45:00Z But as he revealed late in the show while singing “Santa Fe,” a signature ballad of his character Jack Kelly from “Newsies,” there is potentially more to him than a superficial teen-idol appeal. ‘Breaking Character,’ Jeremy Jordan’s Club Act at 54 Below 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z In any case, the changes were all superficial. How I stole my bike back (and what I learned about anti-theft measures along the way) 2020-02-23T05:00:00Z Juicy, previously unreported material abounds, though it’s camouflaged by vaporous paragraphs of superficial commentary and self-congratulation, generally from the biggest names. Review | Behind the scenes of James Bond: A new book offers a look back at the longest-running movie franchise 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z I've been thinking a lot lately about the whole "cancel culture" and these superficial readings of characters. Jesse Eisenberg opens up: "I think of myself as a basic, unremarkable person" 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The pressing issue now is why neither actor will offer even the most superficial interpretation of the new picture. Denzel Washington on diversity western The Magnificent Seven: ‘Audiences like to know who they’re rooting for’ 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z “They talk so much about acceptance now today and it’s like, yes, but trust me — I’m old,” he said, ”It’s superficial.” ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ Highlights the Struggle for Acceptance 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z The characters are superficial, and, it is suggested, only really interested in the surface of things. In the haunting "Silent Land," a couple's seaside stay in Italy plunges toward a moral implosion 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z "I'll admit, I was mostly interested in the superficial," she said. For many royal watchers, allegations of racism have shaken their faith in the Anglophilic fairy tale 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z They seem a bit superficial and their careers aren’t really based on talent.” Enough about Kim Kardashian’s sex tape: How hard does a woman have to work to prove she’s earned her success? 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Does a work of imagination really have to be so “superficial and sentimental,” which is how the Black Puerto Rican journalist Jesús Colón described West Side Story when it debuted? The Great ‘West Side Story’ Debate 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z It’s all very heady and voluptuous, but it’s also painfully superficial. Review: ‘The Summer of Sangaile,’ Evanescent and Too Good to Be True 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z But this tiny gesture only underscores how morally superficial “Jesus Is King” ultimately feels, dividing the complexity of the human experience into good and bad, righteousness and sin. Review | Kanye West found God. Did he lose himself along the way? 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Take Bond out of the equation, and his best characters tend to be those whose superficial sheen of confidence can barely mask the surging torrent of spitting batshittery that lies beneath. Brosnan's back! Why we should celebrate the shouty former Bond's return 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z A mining tycoon, he should embody a superficial power and grandeur that impresses his fellows but which we, the perceptive audience, can see straight through. Titanic, TIME and Me 2012-04-04T20:24:41Z Brows, as measures of superficial complexity, are meaningless as determinants of artistic value. The Creative Class and the Movies 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z For the Clique books to be successful works of satire, they would have to spend more time critiquing superficial materialism and less time glorifying it. How the Clique Books Taught Me to Hate Other Girls and Myself 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z In “Hip Hop Kung Fu,” at Asia Society on Wednesday night, it was an amateurish display that shed only a superficial light on the relationship between hip-hop and Asian cultures. Dance Review: Where Hip-Hop Meets the Martial Arts 2011-08-05T22:35:15Z The common denominators are too simplistic; the understanding of inheritance too superficial. Dressing for the Great British Identity Crisis 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Social media, Elma believes, distracts us from telling each other these stories by offering an endless stream of superficial anecdotes. Ask your mum questions and you may discover… yourself 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Throughout the film, the two Alans carry on a superficial dialogue about life and art that would be stronger were it larded with a healthy infusion of Wildean wit. Review: In ‘The Lady in the Van,’ Maggie Smith Homesteads in the Driveway 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Part of that is taking time every day to talk about what they’re grateful for — and not just the superficial stuff. Three Baltimore teens bared their souls for ‘Step,’ and the response has been overwhelming 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z "Melinda strikes me as someone who is not going to look for something purely superficial, shall we say," she said. How Bill, Melinda Gates should navigate dating after a 'gray divorce': experts 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z "Zen was superficial -- a formal elegance," Gibney said following the screening. SXSW 2015: After Scientology documentary, Alex Gibney aims at Steve Jobs 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z Green, an Australian filmmaker, has previously made documentaries that attempt to peel away the superficial sheen of media sensationalism. ‘The Assistant’ aims to go behind the headlines of #MeToo 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z And the positive thinking of “Liberated” uses the superficial as a springboard to idealism. The Playlist: Kanye West’s Breakout Star 070 Shake, and 10 More New Songs 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z “In Eastern painting, they try to capture the essence of the things rather than the superficial appearance of them,” he said. For This Korean Artist, Memories Are a Medium 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z That assessment of Italy, which is now enduring economic austerity measures, sparked objections from some Italians at Friday's screening, with one contending it was superficial. Woody's `To Rome with Love' shows the sweet life 2012-04-13T15:59:09Z Vexed by the superficial, he was known for his stark, unadorned exteriors. Visit Restored Adolf Loos Interiors in Pilsen, Czech Republic 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Is it a superficial insecurity or something lodged more deeply in nutritional psyche? Vegetarian and proud: without meat, Nix packs a bite 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z Viele plasters too much superficial affect onto Helena’s lines, and when Lysander and Demetrius square off as rivals for her affection, the tussling looks overly busy and sloppy. Shadow puppets lend an otherworldliness to ‘Midsummer’ 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z These similarities were superficial and beside the point, arbitrary attempts to impose a structure onto a journey that was just an accident. I Crossed the World 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z But springing to Orwell's defence, LakerFan said that dismissing his prose as pedestrian points to a superficial reading of the book. Reader reviews roundup 2012-10-05T15:31:28Z The surface is indeed superficial, but it matters — it is what you show the world, what you want the world to think and know. Skout’s minor problem 2012-06-19T23:20:00Z But, though he openly promotes designers on his blog, Bryan Boy considers such support superficial. | Critic?s Notebook: The 48 Hours That Define Fashion Week - NY Fashion Week 2011-09-15T00:07:41Z As he slashed his way through the ’70s, his commitment to superficial dumbness — in the Stooges and beyond — made rock-and-roll feel so much smarter. Perspective | Can Iggy Pop hear the future? 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Bullock’s superficial cynicism conceals a crusading heart of a “white knight,” Dix tells Gordon, to predictable skepticism. 'Gotham' Recap: The Story of Harvey Bullock 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Critics may say he does little more than right the system’s wrongs on a local, superficial level, which is as good as validating it. How the Robin Hood myth was turned on its head by rightwingers 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z "The point with Virtualism was to recreate a mainstream melody with very naive, teen-sounding lyrics, that brings us back in the early 2000s, and that also sounds superficial but at the same time emotional." Alma Elste – Virtualism: New music 2013-07-22T09:15:58Z I think the superficial aspects of Niles are not very much me. Q&A: 'Frasier' Star and Broadway Actor David Hyde Pierce 2010-10-15T09:05:00Z They were showing a world I knew nothing about – a superficial, frothy romcom look at gay life. New-wave queer cinema: 'Gay experience in all its complexity' 2012-10-04T18:59:01Z In “How to Be a Girl,” West uses the movie “Clue” as an entry point to discuss superficial representations of women in pop culture. Here Comes Lindy West, and She’s Holding a Broom 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Charts and awards are only superficial measures of a record's success, of course, especially for a perfectionist like Billy Joel. Billy Joel’s “River of Dreams” at 25: Why his most personal work was a perfect last record 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Speaking of titles, the rusty parchment colour scheme recalls Firefly and like all the references here it trades on a superficial level. Outcasts: season one, episode three 2011-02-14T22:00:00Z Usually there's a superficial politeness, but this was really sincere. Kris Kristofferson ? a Nashville rebel reminisces 2010-05-06T22:00:00Z By my actual twenties, I’d mostly forgotten about the show, even if I was living it in superficial ways. The Revealing Reasons That People Visit the “Friends” Building 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z That conceit worked reasonably well for Henry James and E. M. Forster, whose august shadows occasionally fall over this sunny and superficial trifle. | 'Letters to Juliet': Amanda Seyfried Helps Reunite Lovers in Verona 2010-05-13T21:17:00Z In the most superficial ways, the Valley is clearly an embodiment of Mexican culture. Identity politics along the border: Dissecting why some Latinos love Trump 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z But the characterizations lean toward the superficial, and Mr. Cummings is more persuasive in his songs than in his book scenes. Theater Review: ‘New Girl in Town,’ at Irish Repertory Theater 2012-07-29T22:00:21Z “Oliver Parker!” is ultimately a shrill and superficial exercise in the durable but often wearisome practice of packaging pathology as entertainment. | 'Oliver Parker!': Elizabeth Meriwether?s Dark New Comedy 2010-05-20T22:00:00Z Most of the time in life we are living through things and don't know what they mean at the time, except at a very superficial level. Carlos Reygadas: in defence of Post Tenebras Lux 2013-03-14T18:00:09Z It doesn't help that the makeover is often so laughably superficial, or that the subject is consistently a nice-but-lonely woman obsessed with getting her man. Clip joint: makeovers 2011-03-02T16:59:00Z This superficial movie plays like a fashion shoot with robes. ‘Monk With a Camera,’ About Nicholas Vreeland 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z And at this concert, the mild provocations seemed especially superficial. Music Review: Miley Cyrus Brings Bangerz Tour to Izod Center 2014-04-04T14:50:17Z Hereafter the show feels rushed, superficial and slightly disorganized. Art Review: ‘George Bellows,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012-11-15T23:23:38Z But the book moves beyond these elegantly rendered but somewhat superficial dimensions of her life to traverse her greatest disappointments. Vivian Gornick Can’t Stop Rereading 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z “It is Halloween, Mardi Gras, fancy dress, all superficial because it has to do with surface.” Hollywood's Finest on Display 2012-11-19T10:53:03Z In design terms, the connection is superficial to the point of indifference. For Paris Men’s Wear, the Next Stop Is California 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z In 2009, “So Far Gone” painted Drake as a superficial friend of women, even as they appeared as foils to his ambition. A Peek Back at Early Drake on “So Far Gone” 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z But change is often superficial: Hey, employee, watch this training video, and don’t be afraid to contact your friends in human resources! Perspective | Canning O’Reilly and other media men won’t change a thing. Here’s what would. 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z “One can do a nice superficial gloss, but we have no idea what any rituals actually looked like.” Meet the modern-day Pagans who celebrate the ancient gods 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z The body, certainly, but in too superficial a way. Review: In ‘Pow,’ Keely Garfield Combines Tough and Awkward 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z On a superficial level, this alternative UK is not so different from our own. Danny Boyle: 'They should get Robert Pattinson to be the next James Bond' 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z In the last case, Bishop had been startled to find that so talented a poet could write such “insipid” and “superficial” letters; Bishop had not had a mother to humor with chatty letters like Plath’s. Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z But we are a stubborn group of people, and it is often easier to focus on the silly, the superficial and the insistence that we are right. "The Marriage Ref" is a therapist's nightmare 2010-03-09T16:09:00Z The British designer, who uses the material to create colorful ethereal portraits, landscapes and more, says the exhibit also questions the relationship between the superficial and spiritual. British tulle artist Benjamin Shine launches New York exhibit 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z On a superficial level, the movie is a tawdry tale of marital discord in which Mojdeh and Morteza go at it tooth and nail. Review: ‘Fireworks Wednesday,’ a Domestic Drama From Iran 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z “There is this idea that attraction stems from a very superficial outlook on people, which is false,” Mr. Rad said. Tinder, the Fast-Growing Dating App, Taps an Age-Old Truth 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Giving a superficial impression of equality, the picture would be even more of a lie than before. Rich and poor 2010-03-23T21:00:00Z I don’t know what actually happened, or if any one specific thing even did happen; but the result was to leave her convinced she was unworthy; intellectually superficial; not genuinely talented; a lightweight; a fraud.” The top US opinion stories of 2017: critiquing a tumultuous year 2017-12-29T05:00:00Z There's the superficial parallel in "Elizabeth is Missing" between a detective attempting to piece together what transpired in a case and Elizabeth trying to rekindle her own memories through the aid of notecards and Post-its. "Elizabeth is Missing" is a poignant portrait of dementia cloaked as a Masterpiece murder mystery 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z And on the most superficial level, I enjoyed, for the first time in my life, buying athletic gear and actually using it. Perspective | All my life, I hated running. In my 50s, I set out to change that. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z I always believed that “life” only applied to me in a superficial way, as something unimportant to be endured. For 13 Days, I Believed Him 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Schmaltzy music and fuzzy pictures give a hard tug at the heartstrings, and footage of Perry missing shots on an empty court is frequently deployed as a superficial visual metaphor for hardship. ‘Aulcie’ Review: Love and Basketball, in Israel 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z A barely discernible back story confirms that the resemblance to generic emo-painting is intentionally superficial. Dan Colen: ‘Miracle Paintings’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z He worried that his talent was somehow superficial, all light and no heat. ‘Fosse/Verdon’ Has Magic to Do. And Undo. 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z The early episodes focus on how adherents were drawn in by Nxivm’s superficial resemblance to other self-help philosophies, then the documentary evolves into something of a slow-burn thriller. Review: ‘The Vow’ Follows Nxivm Down Dark, Damaging Paths 2020-08-23T04:00:00Z Now, I limit my interaction with my sister and keep conversations superficial. Perspective | Miss Manners: Calling a grown sibling ‘mean’ won’t help the situation 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z He seemed to form a relationship with just about everyone he encountered and these weren’t just superficial. My family values: David Hasselhoff 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z In this case, it's the superficial and often grubby nature of fame — something that the author, a former tabloid journalist, knows well. New crime fiction: a trio of 'tartan noir' mysteries 2012-11-07T23:14:04Z Many travelers fail to realize these are mammoth middlemen who often have only superficial knowledge of the services they’re selling and inadequate systems to intervene if something goes wrong. Help! The Hotel I Booked Online Became a Homeless Shelter and No One Told Me. 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z But those superficial details are important, including the fact that this is a movie about a white fighter in an overwhelmingly black and Latino sport, made by a black director and a white writer. “Southpaw”: A gripping, conflicted fable of a white champ in an imagined America 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z But while our experiences vary, skinniness isn’t a free pass from the burdens of self-consciousness and the psychic struggle that a ruthlessly superficial society inflicts. “Stick person,” “Skinny bitch,” “Giraffe”: Stop bullying me for being thin 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z But the issue isn’t that “Utopia Avenue” and some of the other novels fail some superficial critical litmus test — some arbitrary insistence on tonal consistency or unity of genre. David Mitchell Brings His Novelistic High Jinks to the Swinging ’60s 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z “In the end, I’d rather wear a nice dress, and if someone is not going to take me seriously, that’s so superficial.” In Silicon Valley, Showing Off Their Louboutins 2012-08-03T17:01:11Z So you've got to shatter the superficial to get at the substantial. Cornel West: Is America ‘even capable of treating the masses of Black people with decency and dignity’? 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z There was a brief and superficial suspension from his record label, followed by a radio ban that was lifted by summer. Perspective | Inclusion at the CMAs? Sounds nice. So why that nasty cheer for Morgan Wallen? 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z Martin called Stone a “superficial, petulant, racist child.” Roger Stone, a master of dark political arts, is playing the Russia scandal for all it’s worth 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Their superficial charm isolates us, as outsiders can’t understand why we would not want to spend time with such lovely people. A letter to … Anyone who is shocked that I don’t like my mother 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z Though Ms. Jacoby and Mr. Pronk are tremendously chic and wholly efficient, their dance style strikes me as more superficial than substantial; and, more important, their taste in choreography objectionable. Dance Review: An American and a Dutchman, Both With Worldly Cool 2010-07-22T22:22:00Z On women’s-interest Web sites like Jezebel.com commenters excoriated the program for using superficial criteria to select one of its few female correspondents. Olivia Munn of G4, Goes Beyond Comic Pinup 2010-06-26T02:53:00Z This format may seem superficial, but the book actually honors Mr. Ebert’s deep affinity with Thomas Wolfe. Books of The Times: ?Life Itself? by Roger Ebert - Review 2011-09-22T21:53:06Z While Mr. Powell didn’t outwardly begrudge the fragrance world’s superficial values, he didn’t adopt its algorithm-dictated priorities. Chasing the Scent of a Brooklyn Fragrance Lover 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z The fusion seemed superficial at first, another in an ongoing series of hat-tips from creator Noah Hawley to his source of inspiration. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 7: The World Is Wrong 2017-05-31T04:00:00Z I'm a visual person, but they confuse that with me being superficial which I am not. Style icon André Leon Talley on navigating the fashion world: “My armor is my self-invention” 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Brisket: The superficial and deep pectoral muscles from the lower chest of the steer. Do you know your deckle from your flat? A glossary of brisket terms 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z This is not a superficial coincidence where politics and popular culture just happen to intersect. When the Punisher, a brutal comic-book vigilante, comes to your local police department, it can’t be good 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Lest you think the popular interest is purely superficial, Carmy also saves the day and stuff. The rise of the heroic dirtbag in 2022 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z What his case points to is the extent to which our understandings of difference remain superficial. When White Poets Pretend to Be Asian 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The injuries that occur in “Sophocles in Staten Island” are superficial: hurt feelings, yes; murders and eye gouging via fashion accessory, no. How ‘Sophocles in Staten Island’ Gains in Translation 2020-09-21T04:00:00Z But when he is not in motion, Mr. Horibe does not move beyond the superficial combination of perkiness, good humor and unquenchable ambition that is underscored repeatedly in Mr. Hwang’s script. Theater Review: David Henry Hwang’s ‘Kung Fu’ Opens at Signature Theater 2014-02-25T03:00:01Z I was almost ascetic in my serene rejection of the superficial. Modern Love: Modern Love: Revelations of a Feminist 2011-09-08T22:11:00Z Inevitably she discards him in favor of the nearest handsome, callow youth, choosing superficial beauty over wisdom and sensitivity. Lon Chaney DVDs: ‘The Blackbird,’ ‘Tell It to the Marines’ 2012-06-01T21:55:22Z If Mr. Risso and the industry he serves stopped treating profound problems with superficial fixes, they might make truly beneficial use of their powerful platform. Gucci’s Alessandro Michele on His Job Prospects 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z On Tuesday, officials confirmed that Williams was found hanged with superficial cuts to his wrists. Robin Williams tweet by Hollywood Academy 'may glorify suicide' 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z She struggles with the superficial side of things. Paloma Faith: 'I wish I was more stupid' 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z Mr. Hébert, who suggests a rancid younger cousin of Dax Shepard, summons a superficial joviality that barely masks the instincts of a poisonous snake. Review: ‘Two Step’ Scuffles Around With Petty Criminals 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z Something similar may be happening in the world of visual storytelling, which is similarly dominated by the fast and the superficial. Captivating Films, Complicated Truths 2011-07-23T00:03:17Z But it was the thawed avocados' texture, not their unappetizing superficial hue that was the real issue: Simultaneously mushy, slimy, and spongy. I learned the hard way that you can't actually freeze avocados 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z All that redemption was on such a superficial level. Sarah Goldberg on the ‘Barry’ Finale and Bad Decisions 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z And I think it’s perfectly normal for many pleasures to be “superficial,” though I would choose the rosier “simple pleasures” or “indulgences.” Carolyn Hax: Tired of living without joy 2015-12-14T05:00:00Z Did you find this a cheap foray into a troubled time period that promised so much but in the end seems superficial? 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Can Any Relationship Last? 2014-08-17T04:00:00Z By making those concerns with superficial beauty part of his art, The Weeknd seems to throw that mirror back at his listeners, asking them to reflect on the irrelevance of his appearance to his craft. What the Weeknd’s changing face says about our sick celebrity culture 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z Mrs. Beegan is a scheming and superficial Mrs. Bennet doppelganger, criticizing everything, including her daughter’s lusterless pearls and her choice in men. ‘Everybody Rise’ review: A witty tale about a high-society wannabe 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z Cinema and architecture have a relationship that goes back a long way, and is both superficial and profound. Building an audience for architecture 2011-01-20T21:45:01Z Wishing that a show would be more superficial is a peculiar thought, but there are different kinds of sophistication, and “Who Rules the Land of Denial” exposes Hawley’s enterprise at its best and worst. ‘Fargo’ Season 3, Episode 8: The View From the Dung Heap 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Kelly Kapoor, meanwhile, evolved into a breakout character: selfish, manipulative, and superficial to the point of absurdity. Mindy Kaling: 'My biggest challenge is being frequently underestimated' 2013-03-22T14:00:00Z In an oral history interview in 2018 with Primary Stages, an Off Broadway theater company, he said, “I wasn’t really able to speak, and the ideas were, for me, superficial.” Robert LuPone, Actor Who Became a Behind-the-Scenes Force, Dies at 76 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z One definition might be a silly, superficial, girl-identifying girl who talks incessantly about horses, wears horse-themed accessories and pretends to be a horse on the playground at recess. Review | What does it mean to be a ‘horse girl’? It’s more than a silly kid who wants a pony. 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z “Dead Accounts” is, I think, meant to be about the inflation of the superficial in a materialistic society, and the attendant, unsatisfied craving for belief. Theater Review: ‘Dead Accounts’ With Katie Holmes at Music Box Theater 2012-11-30T03:00:15Z There was, however, a darker side that bound us more deeply than superficial similarities. Perspective | Pat Conroy said he was ‘the most falsely open man’ I’d ever met. He was right. 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z It's all talk about superficial things and how awesome they are doing. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Parents are remodeling around the elephants in the room 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z “I, along with the rest of the world, had been superficial and careless in my judgment,” Ms. Paulson said, choking up as she directed her comments to Ms. Clark. Emmy Awards 2016: Emmys Welcome Surprises Along With the Favorites 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z We also have here a particularly modern willingness — or at least ability — to over-analyze the most superficial of conversations. Does he like me? 2012-10-11T00:00:00Z The latest adaptation, probably not the last, is a swifter and more superficial movie, directed by Thomas Vinterberg and starring Carey Mulligan. Review: ‘Far From the Madding Crowd,’ the Rom-Com 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z But to her, that distinction goes deeper than the superficial. Vanessa Hudgens: ‘I always wanted to be the indie girl playing a drug addict or stripper’ 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z The caption is a superficial way to characterize an important development of thought that the president — along with the country — has been making over recent years. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z We have bought into a new materialism even more demeaning and superficial than the old kind, whereby the good life meant ownership of a slick make of car. Lionel Shriver: 'If you're thin, you are a kook; if you're fat, you're a failure' 2013-05-11T07:00:27Z The gestures are sincerely meant, though they can read as superficial. On this Runway, Black Lives Matter 2018-09-09T04:00:00Z His ability to connect across racial and cultural lines was not merely a superficial art of survival but rooted in his life and being. Barack Obama: the college years 2012-05-25T22:00:53Z There are many delightful scenes and Ellie May is a likeable character despite her superficial ways. Ellie May Would Like to be Taken Seriously for a Change by Marianne Levy - review 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z “On a superficial level, ‘In Cold Blood’ is a murder story of riveting vitality and suspense. “In Cold Blood” turns 50: Capote’s spellbinding true crime novel gave us “The Jinx,” “Serial” and “Making a Murderer” 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z The film could have easily been a lazy superficial diatribe about "those kids today!" and how we, the previous generations, are so much smarter and wiser and responsible than they are. "Bodies Bodies Bodies" director: "When the Wi-Fi goes out, the demons come in" 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z The cold shoulder from mainstream editorial pages and columnists may have given superficial validation to Trump’s characterization of the news media as his enemy and a tool of the establishment. Mainstream media puts out the call for pro-Trump columnists 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z There are superficial similarities: taboo-teasing, routines about animals and old women falling over. Louis CK – review 2013-03-21T13:39:14Z This is refusal, and a trivial work perhaps inspired by a superficial awareness of the “word games” ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Review | Robert Rauschenberg: A clear-eyed views of chaos, or just chaos? 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Introduced to college campuses in September, Tinder taps into the most superficial aspect of the dating scene. Noted: On a Phone App Called Tinder, Looks Are Everything 2013-04-24T21:24:14Z For much of Special Topics in English, Jam shares only superficial details about the relationship, but the reader is allowed to relive parts of her romance with Reeve Maxwell as she imagines their moments together. Meg Wolitzer's 'Belzhar' nurses its teens back to emotional health 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Ms. Laplane’s “Sibilo,” for four women and four men, encapsulates the program’s title in the most superficial way, showing off the dancers’ stunning technique and muscular physiques but little else. Review: Scottish Ballet Plays Dress Up and Dress Down 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z “It was a natural choice,” he said, “to try to fill, in real life, one of the most sweet and loved characters in the world, without becoming a ‘Ho Ho’ superficial cliché.” Heads Up: Denmark, Where Joy Is Always in Season 2013-12-11T17:29:14Z I could argue that Kelly is the worst of them for going along with the superficial exclusion even though she “doesn’t care.” Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Shut out from girls’ night out with friends from college 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z All of these superficial elements — the visual appeal, the easy portability — are appropriate, because if the book’s contents were to be summarized in one word, the word might be “companionable.” A Serious Reader Offers Appealingly Casual Thoughts on Reading, and Life 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, there is a superficial quality to "The Boston Girl" that detracts from its resonance. 'The Boston Girl' by Anita Diamant is pleasant but lacks bite 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z But given this year’s batch of nominees, that commitment has proven to be both superficial and a bad joke. Slaves, nannies, and maids: Oscars value women of colour – in subservient roles 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The version told here is detailed but also superficial, since Ms. Baird’s and Ms. Major’s intentions and methods are more promotional than journalistic. Movie Review: ‘Venus and Serena,’ a Documentary About the Williams Sisters 2013-05-10T00:31:08Z For all its brooding atmosphere and visual poeticism, the film offers a perspective on the lives of its characters that feels narrow and superficial. Review: ‘Aloft’ Trains an Eagle Eye on Human Misery 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z However, as with some many juxtapositions billed as a “conversation” or “dialogue,” there isn’t, in fact, much back-and-forth after one notices superficial similarities. Review | The De Young Museum tries, and fails, to trace Paul Gauguin’s ‘spiritual journey’ 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z “I remember how much less superficial it felt than Sweet Valley High,” Warner said. Lurlene McDaniel has made a career of making people cry 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z David Brent was the personification of what every person loathes about themselves when they inevitably succumb to the workforce—superficial, petty, and incompetent, just like the status quo he kowtowed to. The fall of Ricky Gervais: How did the once-brilliant star of “The Office” end up here? 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z “That whole industry is really considered superficial, frivolous and contemptible,” she said. Marilyn Minter, an Artist Who Resonates and Repels 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z But these are superficial wounds; even the flattening of the action that naturally results from heavy cutting of the text is survivable, as the Public’s version demonstrated. Review: An ‘As You Like It’ That Is More Prose Than Poetry 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z "It's not so superficial anymore," the actress continued. At 40, Lopez balances motherhood, marriage, movies 2010-04-19T12:16:00Z With a shrug she added, "Fairly superficial stuff." Bo?te | Baddies: Chugging, No. Canoodling, O.K. 2010-02-20T05:59:00Z Instead, this Roundabout Theater Company production gets caught in a superficial cycle of wannabe profundities and emotional pantomimes. ‘Birthday Candles’ Review: Another Year, Another Cake, Another Profundity 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Even so, it seems tacked-on, contrived, lazy almost — a superficial way to engage a complex idea. George Pelecanos' 'Martini Shot' short stories colorful but confined 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z Lots of people consider it superficial and wrong for us to include these decorative maps in the exhibition. Art of maps 2010-04-30T09:48:00Z More people on this side are receiving mental health care than in the past, but they’re getting a more superficial version of it. Modern life is killing us 2012-08-11T13:30:00Z If non-linear jigsaws were too superficial, then old-school linear narrative – of the sort practised by Hollywood – is too lodged in a single, self-serving perspective. A Hijacking and The Reluctant Fundamentalist announce a new narrative order 2013-05-15T12:47:25Z Talking about other people is considered a petty, superficial pastime that women engage in because they just can’t stop themselves from being jealous or nosy. In defence of gossip: no better way to navigate life's flawed relationships 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z No longer infatuated, he mocked even the divine Élisabeth as superficial, pretentious and shallow. French High Society During the Belle Époque 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z You don't have time for anything else to matter or for anything superficial to matter. From heartbreak to the Iditarod finish line: Living the musher life in "This Much Country" 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z “My initial idea was to write about an artist from a superficial world thrown into a political world,” Mr. Gilvarry said. Alex Gilvarry?s First Novel Satirizes Fashion and Politics 2011-12-30T21:27:06Z But there is bad, too, in the suggestion that the superficial cultivation of “personality” may take the place of a sound foundation of knowledge, intelligence and ability. Review: ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People,’ by Dale Carnegie 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z I regard my books as more superficial—they’re dealing with surfaces. John Banville on the Utter Mystery of Writing 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The story being told through the imagery is more than superficial. In wartime battle over imagery, so far it hasn’t been close 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z And yes, for sure, “Mean Girls” is a chronicle on the superficial side: Some lip service is paid to the evils of bullying, but the evening is pure sendup. Review | ‘Mean Girls’ on Broadway: Omg, you’ll lol. 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z But the trouble with this cinematic Trojan horse is that the superficial blandness dominates the frame. ‘The Good House’ Review: Expending Emotional Real Estate 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z Lee was detained by the venue's security team and later taken to the hospital with "superficial injuries," according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Dave Chappelle was attacked during standup. Is this an echo of The Slap? 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z He considered the new music superficial and disdained what he called the “high scoulding” sound of violins. Music Review: Fretwork Performs at Weill Recital Hall 2012-02-11T01:03:17Z Issues with table manners and dress sense might appear superficial now, but their ability to irritate is likely to increase over the years. My boyfriend and I are well matched, but I just don’t fancy him | Dear Mariella 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Though they may sound fairly superficial, these preferences or quirks can easily prove the hurdles at which new partners fall. Forget cat ladies: the real tribes of modern dating, from fantasists to routiners 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The end result is a film with the superficial trappings of a deeper story, but lacking any authentic depth. "Joker" isn't remotely Oscar-worthy, and these better but snubbed films prove it 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z “It’s systemic of a young culture obsessed with the superficial,” said an opinion piece in The New York Post. ‘Am I Pretty?’ Videos Posed to the Internet, Raise Questions 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z And in a song that became an anthem, “Scars to Your Beautiful,” she decried superficial ideas of beauty, vowing, “To all the girls that’s hurting, let me be your mirror.” Alessia Cara: Young, Gifted and Bummed Out 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z She draws explicit, if somewhat superficial, connections to President Trump’s ability to play upon the concerns and prejudices of many Americans. Conversations With a Mass Murderer 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z He is aware of his tenuous inclusion in mainstream society based on superficial parameters and yet craves more than anything to be a part of the most shallow aspect of the culture: contemporary fame. Tituss Burgess on a Role Tailor-Made for Him on ‘Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z This is a rare form of entertainment, closer perhaps to enlightenment than we are accustomed to in these days of superficial distraction. In 'Aubergine,' Julia Cho turns choked-off emotions into a tale of sustenance 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Disliking the movie is a cultural, rather than political stance, and in my opinion, the criticisms outlined here are hollow and based on a wholly superficial reading of the work. Does ‘Three Billboards’ Say Anything About America? Well … 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Again the exterior focus is on superficial matters: a few trips to the beach, a wedding, a few awkward social encounters. Guardian book club: Brooklyn by Colm T?ib?n 2010-09-07T09:32:00Z “You focus on such superficial qualities,” I argued. Modern Love: When a Mother Is a Professional Profiler - Modern Love 2012-07-20T16:05:20Z All of this leaves some leeway for shows like Queer Eye, which no longer run the risk of pigeonholing gay men as effeminate, frivolous or superficial. As Queer Eye gets a reboot, television enjoys a wealth of gay perspectives 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z True character development is typically bypassed in favor of superficial clashes, but the feints at something more — the dangling of Eric’s depth, for instance — are what keep us coming back. A Rare Conversation About Class Brings ‘The Bachelorette’ Into the Real World 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Nor is the atrium the only place where superficial sensationalism can be found. Hold That Obit; MoMA?s Not Dead 2010-12-30T16:49:20Z But you quickly forget the superficial resemblance — it’s immaterial in any case — and become transfixed by Mr. Hurt”s complete command of the play and its shadowy flickering between acrid humor and bone-chilling despair. | 'Krapp?s Last Tape': ?Krapp?s Last Tape,? With John Hurt, at BAM - Review 2011-12-09T03:01:00Z “The Ottoman Lieutenant” is deliberately superficial, a handsomely mounted bit of hokum featuring beautiful people in an exotic setting. What is Sir Ben Kingsley doing in “The Ottoman Lieutenant”? 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z “They’re like the Bushes,” said Mr. Colacello, who has long argued that with politicians, “what seems superficial often reveals deeper truths.” Night Out With Bob Colacello: A Night Out With Bob Colacello 2014-05-09T20:12:20Z Their book, which is about the perils of superficial knowledge, offers as good an explanation as any of how our social-media based news ecosystem is leading to undesirable outcomes in our democracy. The Urgent Quest for Slower, Better News 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Fortunately for Jinhao, who was said to have cried all night after being identified, it was reported that the damage to the wall was superficial. Tourists behaving badly: five incidents of terrible traveller behaviour 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Some might see it as a sharp satire, others as a superficial broadside. Cannes: Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars, a (sort-of) Hollywood satire 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z The result is a film that feels strangely superficial, even though its conceit is a psychological portrait of an artist excavating his deepest psychological material. Taron Egerton shines in an oddly dark ‘Rocketman’ 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z It aims for depth and comes off far too superficial. The 18 most memorable movies of 2018 — for better and for worse 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z What this often translates to in the discourse of the internet is demand for immediate and perfunctory “hot takes” rather than carefully weighed judgments, whether they’re about serious or superficial matters. The End of Reflection 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Yet such was his myth by the late-20th century, even critics often overlooked his clunkier designs, as well as the fact that a proportion of what he did could seem dashed off and superficial. Is Virgil Abloh the Karl Lagerfeld for Millennials? 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Even if it’s superficial, the bro appears to be back, with Entourage serving as the starting point. The boys are back in town: how Entourage signals the second era of 'bro' 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z Despite a superficial interpretation that it’s a film fueled by vulgarity, it has an important message. How the First ‘Bad Santa’ Boozed Down the Chimney 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z It’s important for the news media to report on how those norms are eroding, to keep track of the changes, whether radical or superficial. Perspective | Actually, Melania, your disappearance is a legitimate news story 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Rather than calling attention to the roots of the character’s pattern of deflection, the performance seems increasingly superficial. In 'Model Apartment' at the Geffen, family scars are skin deep — and to the bone 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z “I was invested in the superficial markers of success, and I wasn’t focused on making the work as good and true as possible.” A Fraud? Jonah Lehrer Says His Remorse Is Real 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z Neither do we get any analysis – even on a superficial level – of the style or grammar of the film. The film critic is dead. Long live the film critic 2010-04-07T14:52:00Z Of particular note was an unpleasant director character in the third episode, who bore a superficial resemblance to Mr. Fukunaga and thus seemed to reinforce longstanding rumors of a rift between the two creators. Cary Joji Fukunaga on the Perils of Making ‘Beasts of No Nation’ 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Older books that remind me why we do what we do on a deeper level I find helpful in this increasingly superficial modern western world. When Andrew Koji Isn’t Fighting Onscreen, He’s Memorizing a Poem 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z But exfoliating before applying a self-tanner does makes sense, he said, because the “superficial scaly stuff that externally applied pigments bind to will be more adherent after exfoliation.” Skin Deep: Beauty and the Beach 2011-06-22T21:29:54Z The new combinations and collaborations are sometimes rough or superficial, sometimes fresh and exceptional. The Vail All-Stars, San Francisco Dreaming and Black Lives Matter 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z In his New York Times review, Frank S. Nugent called it “a grand picture, which will disappoint only the most superficial admirers of the play.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Saturday Night Live’ and the First Presidential Debate 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z Chelsea: They dressed really well, both of them, which is kind of superficial but always the first thing you notice. Date Lab has an adventure: A group date! 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z What are we as a country going to do to make positive systemic change and not just superficial improvements? "Passion and anger without a strategy is called frustration": Bill Duke on positive systemic change 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z And you knew, on a gut level, that the six-digit tattoo etched on his arm was only the most superficial emblem of how this man had been scrawled upon by inhuman hands. No Matter the Role, Antony Sher Made Soaring Seem Possible 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z We swim in a stew of ready-made metaphors; the would-be poet need only skim the surface, rearrange a few bits, and the superficial reader will nod approvingly. ‘Here I Throw Down My Heart’: poems that force a fresh look 2012-12-07T00:49:04Z They simply go by the superficial label of the offenses, and Mr. Green's are prohibited. I'm a public defender. I don't want my elderly client to die in prison from coronavirus 2020-08-29T04:00:00Z Instead, all is sunshine and — literally — rainbows, with only superficial attention paid to defaulters or the problems of rapid growth. Movie Review: ?Bonsai People,? a Documentary About Muhammad Yunus 2012-02-09T23:42:11Z Not this superficial aesthetic of what humanity is. Ryan Heffington Wants the Whole World to Dance 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z While Evison's natural descriptions can be marvelous, his character portrayal is too often superficial, perhaps because he's tried to jam in more than a mere 500 pages can accommodate. Jonathan Evison's 'West of Here' spans a century of Olympic Peninsula history 2011-02-10T00:25:03Z He was having dinner with a fellow engineer, who was bemoaning how superficial dating apps felt, and how he didn’t have time to sift through all of the profiles to find a promising match. A New Dating App Asks: Do Our Stars Align? 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z Yet while it succeeds in aping the superficial aspects of Scorsese's style, "Joker" lacks the intelligence or gravitas of Scorsese's best work. The problematic "Joker" 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z But that doesn’t make the hall’s superficial exclusivity any less degrading for the inductees, the rejects, the gatekeepers and the onlookers. No charts, no Grammys, no Hall of Fame: Why pop greatness requires talk and time 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Voters used words like “superficial” and “messy” to describe the film, which received lukewarm reviews from critics and prompted an outcry for soft-pedaling gay plot points. What Will Win Best Picture? 20 Oscar Voters Spill Their Secrets 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z And until the end, the whole thing is weirdly free of any but the most superficial, mechanical surprises. ‘Avengers: Infinity War’: It’s Marvel’s Universe. We Just Live in It. 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z But this is all the superficial stuff, because the deeper we go, the more we start to see ourselves. Lena Dunham on Love Island: ‘I'm asking the same question they do – can you love after hurt?’ 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z Dr. Diller, 56, and Dr. Muir-Sukenick, 57, are here to tell American women — no matter how stellar their accomplishments — that it’s not superficial to admit that aging is upsetting. Skin Deep: Guide on Beauty and Aging Seeks to Help Women See Their Value 2010-03-17T21:05:00Z Even superficial examination of this film reveals myriad flaws, despite a compelling performance by Jeremy Irons as a fictional writer in a book also called “The Words.” Movie Review: ‘The Words,’ With Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid and Bradley Cooper 2012-09-06T22:03:02Z There is a superficial resemblance between "Food Party" and some of the things you might encounter in Cartoon Network's "Adult Swim" programming bloc, where an aesthetic of amateurism also reigns. TV treat 'Food Party' mixes kooky cook, kid show vibe with art project 2010-05-18T19:32:00Z “On a superficial level,” he said, “it doesn’t seem like the kind of work that I do.” In This ‘Oklahoma!,’ She Loves Her and He Loves Him 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z This form of development wants nothing to do with the superficial community-mindedness of the postwar suburb, and the reason the giant house looks the way it does is to inform you of this. Let them eat McMansions! The 1 percent, income inequality, and new-fashioned American excess 2014-04-13T11:00:00Z "But also people like to buy into it. It's kind of like Christmas, they know it's a bit superficial but they like the feeling it gives them." Brand Nigella: Will court case affect her career? 2013-12-20T12:45:14Z Like those plays, “Sticks and Bones” is, on one level, a full-frontal attack on a superficial, hypocritical society. Holly Hunter and Bill Pullman in David Rabe's 'Sticks and Bones' 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z What’s new in this cycle is the number and kind of attacks — complaints about biased coverage, about hostile coverage, about inaccurate or superficial coverage. Candidates agree: News media has done them wrong 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z In fact, the allegation most often levelled at a confessional essayist tends to be that they are writing in a trite and essentially superficial way about themselves: the literary equivalent of navel-gazing. Confessions in new women's lit: Emily Gould, Meghan Daum and Sloane Crosley 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z To those of us who have experienced moral distress, Grayling's homilies will seem breezy, superficial and banal; but they were not really meant for us. The God Argument: the Case Against Religion and For Humanism by AC Grayling – review 2013-03-07T10:00:01Z Some reviewers have critiqued the series’ relatively brief mentions of sexual violence as a tool of colonization, a reading that Peck calls “very superficial”. ‘Sometimes, it’s shocking’: Raoul Peck on his bold new colonialism series 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Let’s go back to a world where the superficial trumped the actual, gossip was as weighty as fact and appearances were the only thing that mattered. These Characters Study Abroad in Berlin. It Doesn’t Go Well. 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Of course, I’ve come up against plenty of the predictable tropes I anticipated as an HBO-watching teenager, but I’ve more often found that men defy the cliche of superficial, unemotional wanting. What I learned about male desire in a sex doll factory 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z An actual incident, or just the creeping reach of evil into the life of superficial, smarmy Dad? ‘The Night Manager’ Season 1, Episode 3: What Makes a Villain Charming? 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z According to its curator, Osei Bonsu, the exhibition aims to steer away from typical Western imagery associated with African cultures, which tends to be superficial or stereotypical, he said. Contemporary African Royals, in Regalia and Complexity 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z If you really can explain it to me, and why it’s harmful or beneficial — I think a lot of it is described in this kind of superficial manner. Where that Christmas feast really came from 2013-12-25T22:00:00Z And, just like with baseball, it starts with trying to ignore the superficial indices of value — attractiveness, wealth — in favor of hidden attributes with a stronger correlation to long-term relationship success. The Trick to Finding Your Soul Mate? Change Your Expectations 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z While it is possible to adapt wines to the more superficial requirements of modern life, it is nice to be reminded of what we are missing. For Savennières, Age Comes With Benefits 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Even though Viola and Alfred's decision was based on class prejudice of the most superficial kind, Celia found it harder to bear. Class prejudice drove our family apart 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z The loss of Daphne’s regular appearance is proven to be a superficial thing, and not what actually matters the most to her. Scooby Doo and the Unfortunate Case of Fat Shaming 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z I admit, as I watched preview episodes, the lessons seemed not for me at first; I drifted a bit, mildly entertained by superficial peripherals like Midwestern accents on Middle Eastern people. Arts & Leisure: ?All-American Muslim? on TLC: Life in Dearborn, Michigan 2011-11-10T18:31:22Z “That’s the superficial fashion world talking,” a fashion executive said on Tuesday night. Paris Fashion Week: John Galliano Exits the Way That He Entered 2011-03-02T22:09:23Z Without such roots, he added, “your food stays pretty and superficial.” Eric Ripert Looks Back on a Youth Both Tender and Tough 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The reflex socialistic complaint that appears each time a fine dining experience is mentioned does seem a bit superficial. Gramercy Tavern: A Classic Still on the Move 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z For instance, "The Lady" offers only the most superficial look into her work with other members of the freedom movement. 'The Lady': Michelle Yeoh is perfectly cast as Myanmar's Suu Kyi 2012-04-12T20:08:04Z Now their paths are intersecting in the new Paramount Network TV show “American Woman,” which is, appropriately, about rejecting sexist, superficial typecasting in everyday life. How Alicia Silverstone and Mena Suvari rejected typecasting, both onscreen and off 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Poetry that reaches all the people is essentially superficial. A Revolutionary of Arabic Verse 2010-10-17T22:03:00Z The resulting performance is classic Farmiga, displaying her uncanny ability to hint at the hidden depths within a character who could, in other hands, be little more than a superficial adjunct to the plot. Vera Farmiga: 'I demand a lot from myself' 2011-03-27T00:05:25Z "I thought it would be slightly fraudulent to disappear into a library and cram in a really superficial, half-arsed way." Rebecca Hall: class act 2010-06-11T23:02:00Z But, most of us thought, well, in a household of such overwhelming, superficial femininity, who wouldn’t indulge in some basic vanity? Bruce Jenner and the Modern American Family 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z He felt as if his work was almost superficial. How Working With Martin Scorsese Is Like a Religious Experience 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z You always stay on a very superficial level, whereas with a fictional character you can sound out the depth you want and include in that character elements of others. John Lennon's Spain Sojourn Becomes a Film (Without Lennon) 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z But, paving the way for more sequels that are less superficial, she is drawn as the one character who actually grows, who steps out of her one-dimensional bad-girl type to reveal her vulnerability. ‘The Princess Switch 3’ Review: Meow, It’s Fiona’s Turn 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The rigour and rhythmic imagination with which Lachenmann deploys such ideas, let alone the historical critique his music implies, seems entirely absent in Andre's slick, superficial pieces. Mark Andre ? review 2011-07-12T14:26:53Z As Ms. Turkle sees it, online life tends to promote more superficial, emotionally lazy relationships, as people are “drawn to connections that seem low risk and always at hand.” Books of The Times: ?Friends? Without a Personal Touch 2011-02-21T19:16:33Z Investigators say that Wood’s autopsy noted fresh bruises on her wrists and upper body, including a “superficial abrasion” on her left cheek. Robert Wagner is 'person of interest' in Natalie Wood death investigation 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z Something caught Affleck's imagination: he did flashy, handsome and superficial perfectly, and you felt the comedy and pathos, too. David Thomson on Ben Affleck 2010-04-15T21:20:00Z He's built a reputation for playing weak, vain men with a superficial charm that can't hide their hopeless neuroses. Rewind TV: The Kennedys; The Crimson Petal and the White; Louis Theroux: America's Most Hated Family in Crisis; My Brother the Islamist 2011-04-09T23:05:33Z The voluntary recall comes after "205 reports of the air fryers catching fire, burning, melting, overheating and smoking," resulting in "reports of minor, superficial burn injuries and ... reports of minor property damage." Over 2 million air fryers recalled for "causing fire, burning, melting, overheating and smoking" 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z The view of his music as superficial was abandoned as the 20th century progressed. The hot Liszt 2010-12-27T21:30:01Z Where Amy was an ignorant, narcissistic and superficial magazine writer with a fear of commitment, Emily Middleton is a doubly ignorant, narcissistic and superficial soon-to-be-fired retail clerk for whom commitment isn’t even on the table. “Snatched” is a subpar Amy Schumer flick dressed up as a buddy comedy 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Instead of disclosures, Stefánie prefers superficial exposures, proudly parading before her daughter in negligees and barely tied robes. Daddy dearest 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z “It’s very superficial and I’m not proud of that. I’m going to have to start dating appropriate businessmen.” Encounters : Carole Radziwill’s on Her New Novel, ‘The Widow’s Guide to Sex and Dating’ And More 2014-02-26T23:18:30Z The Israeli director Eytan Fox offers insights into two generations of gay men that at times can seem superficial. ‘Sublet’ Review: A Less-Than-Intrepid Traveler 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z We’ve all seen stories about the South that are superficial, two-dimensional and condescending. "Rectify" Creator Ray McKinnon on How He Avoids Ratings Anxiety 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z We are not accustomed to seeing Marilyn Monroe as being on top in any but the most superficial way. Marilyn Monroe: proto-feminist? 2012-07-21T21:05:42Z That might sound painfully earnest, but the Greeks understood that our profoundest pleasures aren’t superficial. How theater should respond to a democracy in meltdown 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z He suggested that it was the work of one of the master’s pupils, because “the painterly execution is superficial and inconsistent” and he didn’t “recognize Rembrandt’s touch in it.” Disputed Painting Is Declared an Authentic Rembrandt After Decades 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z This highly constructed diorama of a show has a lot of superficial elements of classic TV comedy. Review: Mulaney Does Its Homework Too Well 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z This may seem like a ridiculously weighty question for an industry built on the supposedly superficial business of selling clothes, as opposed to political philosophies. What Freedom Looks Like 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z Second, McCullough's focus on such a wide cast of characters renders the portrait of each one superficial, scattered by a wide historical lens and large cast. David McCullough's 'The Greater Journey': How France nurtured the American experiment 2011-05-18T23:11:59Z But it is still a psychological puzzle: Why are we willing to risk illness and death for something seemingly superficial? Hair Salons Reopen, and Americans Rush Back 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z They’re another style, as superficial as anything else that might come down the runway at Fashion Week, just with an added layer of condescension. Minimalism: another boring product wealthy people can buy 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Ultimately the superficial, fairy-tale optimism of "Real Women" is what dates it. 'Real Women Have Curves': funny, flawed and fabulous 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z If the terms of its survival are superficial, then it is superficial. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Husband says if she cuts her hair short, it will ‘blow up’ their relationship 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z I mean...who wants to pay good money and actually be required to think or to react to anything other than on the most superficial level imaginable? Review: ‘Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates,’ Antics to Not Love nor Cherish 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Still, because she tends to cite only one or two stanzas at a time, her comparisons of poets or poems are often superficial. Review | ‘Don’t Read Poetry’ is a literary manual for the Instagram era 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z The superficial can be very shiny and comfortable, playing our role till we play our death, never listening to the nagging humanity underneath, the want and need not found in the Neiman Marcus catalogue. This Week in Fiction: David Gilbert on Writing About a Man Who Is Trapped as a Boy 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z The superficial one was an overt reference to the football drama, as Leslie exclaimed “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose!” to her newly assembled PCP citizens’ action group. Parks and Recreation Watch: Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can?t Lose! 2011-12-09T14:12:50Z Wearing, though, is unconvinced: “Often it amounts to little more than ‘crying while shooting’, where the critiques are fairly superficial and leave many deeper assumptions untouched.” ‘There are no black people on GoT’: why is fantasy TV so white? 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z So many L.A. relationships are superficial, and I sometimes feared ours was too. Together. 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z With its fantastical setting and characters, “The Lord of the Rings” bears a superficial resemblance to HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” currently one of the biggest shows in the world. ‘Lord of the Rings’ Series Coming to Amazon 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z Then he reached back to the 1970s at a town hall in Sandown, N.H., poking fun of the superficial debate format by comparing it to the short version of "Stairway to Heaven." Pop culture, according to Jon Huntsman 2011-09-21T15:22:00Z At times the album’s atmospherics, especially the digital reverb and other electronics applied to the trumpet, feel superficial and facile. New Music: New Albums by Laura Marling, Terence Blanchard, Frankie J and Cecile McLorin Salvant 2013-05-27T21:56:34Z Some readers, I tell him, think anyone who craves fame for its own sake is superficial and shallow. Rylan Clark on The X Factor, death threats and being seen as a fame-hungry diva 2012-12-16T20:00:00Z It must be noted, however, that the men of the current administration aren’t escaping their own superficial critique. Kellyanne Conway’s “triple standard”: A game of two half-truths and a lie 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z While these things may sound superficial to ask of someone while you're dating — the difference is they are considering a permanent future with one another. "Love Is Blind" hasn't really worked since the first season, so why are we still watching? 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Coursing below all of these seemingly superficial pleasures is a more profound allure that goes back to the hunt. Perspective | Why vinyl makes a perfectly imperfect format for discovering classical music 2021-07-07T04:00:00Z What she and many others who work with children see are exchanges that are more superficial and more public than in the past. How Does Technology Affect Kids? Friendships? 2010-04-30T20:05:00Z My experience of working with trauma convinces me that anxiety needs to be addressed and not given a superficial bandage of comfort. 'My granddaughter loses sleep over terrorism': how children respond to global events 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z That's all rather superficial though: Python is always slapstick, especially since it's talking about the grandiose. Where are all the right-wing comedians when you need them? 2013-03-12T15:03:25Z MC: That doesn’t mean he is superficial, a blinkered optimist. Olive Kitteridge at Venice: An Our Town for Our Time 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Regrettably, much like dorm-room viewing staple Reservoir Dogs, the legacy of The Dark Knight is superficial. The Dark Knight at 10: how Christopher Nolan reshaped superhero cinema 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z It's a lie that the British press wants to be told that LA is very shallow, glitzy, venal, superficial, all that stuff. Hugh Laurie: 'There's a sensual pleasure involved in making music that I just can't get from acting' 2013-05-05T18:00:02Z Sure, it's a superficial issue and the correct pronunciation is mentioned a couple of times in the show. TV Hall of Shame #5: Treme 2011-03-23T14:32:41Z But such animating sparks of piercing feeling too rarely cut through Mr. Farr’s capable but superficial production. | 'King Lear' : The Old, Inexorable Story of a King?s Disintegration 2011-07-17T21:53:11Z Because the moderators can be students, in his experience, a lot of the posts are “moderated in a superficial manner,” he said. Sidechat Wants to Be College Students’ Main Chat 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z That is not to suggest that Moser’s project is in any way superficial. A Big New Biography of Susan Sontag Digs to Find the Person Beneath the Icon 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z The concept is as banal and superficial as is its realization. “Apollo 11,” Reviewed: A Found-Footage Documentary With No Sense of Discovery 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Yet she soon realizes her presence in Reykjavik is nothing more than a superficial gesture; the church’s authorities are privately orchestrating a swift and permanent hush-up. A Not-So-Cold Case in Not-So-Frigid Iceland 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z There are also some superficial comparisons to be made between "Dark Phoenix" and a much better superhero film, "Captain Marvel." "Dark Phoenix" is an unworthy X-Men finale 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z These are superficial traits, to be sure, but with a character whose backstory is as obscure as his, surface characteristics play an instrumental role in determining whether a new version works or does not. Will "Joker" further the stigma of mental illness? 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z This trend seemed to have reached its logical conclusion with Snapchat, a visual communications app that is designed to be so impersonal and so superficial that its messages literally disappear after 10 seconds. Gene Weingarten’s column is on your favorite subject: You. 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z And voters choose movies for a wide range of reasons, some purely on craft, some for superficial reasons. Oscars 2015: Hollywood strays from safe zone with 'Selma,' 'Sniper' 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Officials also found a pocket knife near Williams and superficial cuts on his left wrist with dried red material that matched what was on the knife blade. Comedy great Robin Williams hanged himself at home 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z The history, meanwhile, narrated by Michael C. Hall, is strikingly superficial. Television Review: ?Vietnam in HD? on the History Channel - Review 2011-11-07T22:20:26Z It would be a mistake to dismiss that as somehow superficial. How Vernon Jordan became a one-of-a-kind Washington presence 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z The references to Sept. 11 are superficial, confusing and crassly exploitative. Review: ‘Secret in Their Eyes,’ a 13-Year Hunt for a Killer 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Still — 700 pages devoted to a self-consciously superficial musical phenomenon that blazed at the dawn of the ’70s, then fizzled out in just five years? Was glam any different from pop? Simon Reynolds has the answer in 'Shock and Awe' 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z In my younger days, I was vehemently against any kind of body alteration, feeling that it was giving into valuing the superficial. Not Quite “Brazil”: Meg Ryan, plastic surgery and my mother’s augmentation 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z It’s too easy for the reader to scratch at the superficial posturing and say, “That person is hiding something.” Toni Morrison’s ‘God Help the Child’ 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z She is, as her name promises, Britain incarnate, the ultimate embodiment of a superficial, morally bankrupt nation in endless need of titillation. Richard Bean’s ‘Great Britain’ Opens at the National 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z In the absorbing but superficial "American Jesus," Spanish documentarian Aram Garriga offers a panoramic overview of Protestant subcultures in America, from Anaheim to Long Island. 'American Jesus' a superficial look at Protestant subcultures in U.S. 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z A dark comedy this superficial only reads as light gray, on account of the sham sunlight glaring at the end of its tunnel. Review: How Amazon’s Kate Beckinsale Series, “The Widow,” and Netflix’s New Ricky Gervais Show, “After Life,” Get Grief All Wrong 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z Suffice to say that it's not actually all that interesting: one supervillain, these days, is very much like another, whatever their superficial attributes are. Star Trek Into Darkness – review 2013-04-30T23:11:24Z As a critique of the art world’s slavery to fashion — and its worship at the altar of Gagosian — it’s all rather superficial and obvious. | Francesco Vezzoli's Temple of Obsession 2011-02-09T19:30:37Z The British designer, who uses the material to create colorful ethereal portraits, landscapes and more, says the exhibit also questions the relationship between the superficial and spiritual. British tulle artist Benjamin Shine launches New York exhibit 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z What there isn't – despite superficial references to his parents, his fiancee and daughter – is anything honest or self-revealing. Rob Schneider 2010-07-07T21:15:00Z At its most superficial level, the fedora featured in the signs represents your basic hipster. Noted: Montauk Feels the Effects of Too Many Hipsters 2012-08-03T20:09:21Z I don’t want them to grow up thinking we should be valued by our looks and other superficial and materialistic qualities. Carolyn Hax: A daughter hates her mom’s plastic surgery 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z While these three stories may seem different on a superficial level, each one succeeds because they frame broad social issues within the deeply personal stories of their main characters. Jordan Peele's "Twilight Zone" in the Trump era 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z Needless to say, there’s no hint of Jackson’s tabloid troubles, only superficial takes on the music’s often dark undercurrents. Theater Review: ?Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour,? Cirque du Soleil 2012-04-02T22:12:15Z And Tinder, another hugely popular app, puts a premium on superficial looks, as users swipe through an endless photo carousel of potential mates. Hinge, a Dating App, Introduces Friends of Friends 2014-03-28T20:32:16Z I'm probably the least obvious choice to play the role … The character is everything that I felt really strongly against – she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. Emma Watson in 'transforming' role as Coppola's thief 2013-05-08T15:34:35Z It’s easy to dismiss the pastel-covered series of this era as superficial fluff, but the books signaled a desire for escapism — and a turn away from the hard-edge problems that dominated the earlier YA market. Review | How ‘The Outsiders,’ ‘Harry Potter’ and ‘The Hunger Games’ transformed YA fiction 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z He wasn't just a superficial character who took a woman to bed then left her. Casanova unveiled: new edition of his book reveals the man who loved liberty as much as women 2013-03-30T13:04:25Z She seems a furiously serious writer, still smarting from superficial readings of her first novel, which she wished to be seen as a metaphorical account of faith. The Professor of Poetry by Grace McCleen – review 2013-07-20T08:00:12Z As MI6 head M, Dench has been the Bond matriarch: the strong-willed, no-nonsense mainstay of feminine authority in a movie franchise that has, more often than not, featured slightly more superficial womanly traits. As mom to Bond, Dench reflects on her 007 reign 2012-11-09T18:16:08Z At the New Museum, absent the installation’s early bookends, these matters of violence and superficial innocence remain. A Piercing View of the Twentieth Century, Through the Eyes of the Teddy Bear 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z The man, who suffered superficial wounds to his torso and thigh, was also taken to Mount Sinai, but in good condition, police said. 9 shot in Chicago in less than 8 hours 2012-03-14T11:13:00Z Martin Amis and other novelists are searching for a medium to express the superficial electronic lives we all lead. Expert view: 'We are becoming superficial' 2010-07-28T21:59:00Z After berating her that “you make superficial music because you think about superficial things,” Tedros pushes Jocelyn to tell everyone just how her mother hurt her. ‘The Idol’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap: Tedros Has Notes 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z “Bohemian Rhapsody” supplies a reminder that the band existed, but it conveys only a superficial, suspect sense of what it was. ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ Review: Another One Bites the Dust 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z “I think she was trying to discard her obsession with what she saw as superficial,” explains Bren. Waking up to New York: secrets of the world's most famous women-only hotel 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z The problem arose particularly in the writing of the chapter about Gary Lambert, who bore a certain superficial resemblance to my oldest brother. Jonathan Franzen: the path to Freedom 2012-05-25T21:55:12Z A statement released Friday said he was in the accident on Thursday night and suffered "superficial cuts and bruises." George Michael treated for 'minor' injuries 2013-05-17T13:22:08Z Hitchcock's very dark side gets superficial treatment as the film offers the cinematic equivalent of psychobabble to explore the director's notorious gluttony, sexual repression and idolization of his leading ladies. Review: 'Hitchcock' is lightweight but fun study 2012-11-19T17:30:11Z There may be a superficial escape – into different countries, mores, speech patterns – but what you are essentially doing is furthering your understanding of life's subtleties, paradoxes, joys, pains and truths. Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile 2012-06-29T21:55:18Z Similarly, anti-depressants and stimulants make us satisfied with mundane or superficial work that does nothing to change the status quo. A Reckoning With an Imperfect Science in ‘Blue Dreams’ 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z "A cliché is bad only when it is superficial, when you just imitate the truth," he contends. 'Carmen': Quite a woman at Seattle Opera 2011-10-05T22:47:04Z That’s not to say that I haven’t been attracted to larger men before — after being charmed by their dazzling intellect, sense of humor or what have you — but on a strictly superficial level, no. Manny Pacquiao loses his crown 2012-05-16T18:50:00Z In 2001's "Shallow Hall," Jack Black plays a superficial dude who is hypnotized to see women's inner beauty. "Impeachment" portraying Linda Tripp by an actress in a fat suit undermines the series' strengths 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z I should think it means gentlemanly attention to scholarship, I dare say often too superficial. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z The ones that transmit superficial pain, such as a pinprick, are in the dermis. Ever wondered about your sense of touch? 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z “But it does not help the problem to advocate measures that have superficial appeal but no real effect.” Backpage sues Washington state 2012-06-05T11:00:00Z It also invites no comparisons, or at least none that aren’t entirely superficial. What Having A ManServant Is Like 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Some will love it, others may call it superficial and repetitive, or say he's using social networking to push his poetry. 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere – review 2012-08-03T21:55:07Z You comfort me when I cry down the phone in your own special, superficial way and you laugh at me in faux-sibling shame when I say silly things. A letter to … my little adopted brother, who has autism 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z If a person has no understanding of who they are as a human being then all they have is the superficial. "Passion and anger without a strategy is called frustration": Bill Duke on positive systemic change 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z A superficial analysis would suggest that was really about "implicit bias". Professor targeted by right wing attack speaks out: “It was a blitzkrieg” 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Explosions, cynicism, killing people and violence in a very superficial way, is that life? Inarritu delivers straightforward tale on death 2010-05-17T16:21:00Z In fact, Coolidge transformed “Valley Girl” from its superficial beginnings into a teen classic full of heart and a trippin’-dicular new wave soundtrack. When ‘Valley Girl’ (and Nicolas Cage) Shook Up Hollywood 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z What’s important is the culture, not what the travel writer happens to be going through in terms of superficial difficulties. 5 great books on world travel 2013-02-04T12:45:00Z There is the feeling of a fast, superficial skimming of the world appealing to random, short-attention-span curiosity. Art Review: The Fully Engaged Lens 2011-05-12T21:57:40Z Welles saw this as very superficial and he really detested the machismo. Lost script reveals what Orson Welles really thought about Ernest Hemingway 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z It is a darker book than I first realised, the superficial lightness concealing a faint and beguiling pessimism about love's pursuit and its consequences. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford | Book review 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z "It would be very easy to make a film that was very superficial," said its director, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Supermodels put on a brave face as they grow older with style 2012-07-28T10:06:48Z This cult shares within it the classic traits of psychopaths: superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance; a need for constant stimulation, a penchant for lying, deception and manipulation; and the incapacity for remorse or guilt. As of 2022, we're (presumably) done with Kanye West. But what does that mean? 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z As a professor of gender and women’s studies, she knows that these things are more than superficial. This Week in Fiction: Curtis Sittenfeld on the Elegant Comedy of Hypocrisy 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z The movie’s multifaceted plot works conspicuously superficial variations on the themes of hypocrisy and corruption, starting with the deteriorating state of Romeo and Magda’s marriage. The Moralizing Pseudo-Realism of Cristian Mungiu’s “Graduation” 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z But for all his esoteric attraction, Dee remains a hard figure to pin down, and I'm not sure Albarn and Norris have really got to grips with his significance except in a superficial way. Dr Dee – review 2012-06-27T11:01:40Z The issue is not just about the filth and damage that ships emit into Venetian air and water, but of the superficial interaction that cruise ships generate between passengers and their host city. Is the cruise industry finally out of its depth? 2020-04-19T04:00:00Z Tyler: At a superficial level, I was like, All right, Mom! Date Lab: So, his Mom picks his date. How’d that go? He imported the superficial formula to New York, where he opened a Body Center in 1978: “I would give one month’s free gym membership to every cute boy I met at Studio 54.” Club Promoter John Blair 2012-01-26T00:22:42Z That’s why the movie’s flatness, its superficial approach to its material, is all the more disappointing. Brad Pitt’s “War Machine” Stays on the Surface of American Politics 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z "Eat, Pray, Love" is a minor and superficial summer diversion that offers female viewers not much more than a two-hour escape fantasy, but that's not a crime. "Eat, Pray, Love": A phenomenon goes bust 2010-08-13T00:20:00Z For girls, she said, much of their online interactions revolve around superficial things like looks, clothes and makeup. Hey, Kids, Look at Me When We’re Talking 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z A grand, complex human drama is reduced to platitudes and pretty pictures, as some fine actors become ciphers of suffering and resilience in a strained and superficial pageant. | 'Miral': Hopes and Struggles in a Difficult Land 2011-03-24T21:53:01Z So a superficial Jack Lemmon vibe — except Jack Lemmon never twerked in boxer shorts. ‘The Out-Laws’ Review: Adam Devine, Funny at Last 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z Bader suggests that the relationship between men’s desires and their sexual preferences may not lend itself to superficial interpretations. What I learned about male desire in a sex doll factory 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z So, yes, Raya is less superficial than its reputation would suggest. Can ‘Illuminati Tinder’ Save Us All? 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z “That’s actually a sign of how serious I am. I’m not bogged down by the superficial. I’m not distracted by shallow worries about my appearance.” When Even a Toddler Can Tell You Don’t Belong 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z When I noticed a potential boyfriend looking at me with interest, I was convinced he’d pass me over once he saw through my superficial appearance: with my clothes on, I believed, I was false advertising. My deep, dark secret 2013-02-15T23:40:00Z |
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