| 单词 | shallowness |
| 例句 | “Perhaps not,” he replied coldly, looking down his nose at me as if surprised at my shallowness of purpose. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t let the shallowness fool you,” Moody had told Pearl. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z This woman was the embodiment of Capitol shallowness. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Here’s the most uncomfortable thing about that statement: What an ugly thing to admit, what a shallowness there is to that. Matthew Weiner on Life After ‘Mad Men,’ Sexual Harassment and His New Amazon Show 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z Brown moves through her life in 1950s LA with that sense of disappointed expectation, the shallowness of all things and its flip side, the sudden flights of joy and inexplicable wonderment that underpins the novel. Michael Cunningham: A life in writing 2011-02-07T08:00:00Z Season 2 has been a total bore -- the glitter, fussiness and shallowness of the "French Story" a real distraction; a big turnoff. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 7: Of Love and Sacrifice 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z The image had that tense, flattened, edged quality that digital still has—the slight outlining, the slight shallowness. “The Godfather” at the Philharmonic 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z But its shallowness — its compression of space, depth deliberately eliminated — interests me. 10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z “Godard Mon Amour” works tirelessly to implicate its subject in its own shallowness. Review: If You Love Godard, You’ll Hate-Watch ‘Godard Mon Amour’ 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z The shortcomings of the British characters are finessed by shifting attention to an American interloper whose malignancy is exceeded only by his shallowness. Can’t Match Netflix? At Least You Can Buy Some British Shows 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Community and creativity, “always trump shallowness and hype in the end,” Ms. Hastreiter added. The Gimlet Eye: Profile of Kim Hastreiter of Paper Magazine 2010-04-07T22:40:00Z “Trust Me,” which Mr. Gregg made independently, is his satirical look at the shallowness of show business and the people who strive to succeed at it. Clark Gregg Directs and Stars in ‘Trust Me’ 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z In Bellini-Liszt, there is ample shallowness on either side of the hyphen, but no one plays this as an exercise in deep thought. | Ran Dank: Wide-Ranging Program for Prizewinning Pianist 2009-12-17T05:52:00Z In the introduction to his new book, “The Road to Character,” David Brooks breaks the columnist’s fourth wall with a startling confession: “I was born with a natural disposition towards shallowness.” David Brooks’s Search for Meaning 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z It's the unremitting shallowness that did for me: every famous landmark and stereotype was lovingly ticked off with no effort to scratch beneath the surface. Greatest Cities of the World and Welcome to Lagos 2010-04-30T07:00:00Z Manon, we learn, is bound for a convent on the orders of her parents, who are alarmed by her fantasies of wealth and her shallowness. Music Review: Anna Netrebko in ?Manon? at Metropolitan Opera 2012-03-27T22:50:54Z Again nothing to suggest controversy, save for the shallowness of the arguments, and it is this characteristic of Diamond's writings that drives anthropologists to distraction. The World Until Yesterday by Jared Diamond – review 2013-01-09T10:22:31Z This book though, with its depth of insight into extremes of shallowness, and its human scale, reads like a minor classic of our times. The Bling Ring by Nancy Jo Sales – review 2013-06-24T07:00:01Z This shallowness is especially disappointing given the shocker ending, which throws everything that’s come before into a new, mind-bending light. ‘Vedette’ Review: A Cow’s Trouble in Paradise 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z “American Animals” sometimes revels in their rebellious spirit and sometimes mocks their shallowness and lack of discipline. Review: In ‘American Animals,’ These Guys Didn’t Visit the Library to Study 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z I’m already regretting the shallowness of the “change your sheets” bit. What is your biggest regret? Here are people's devastatingly honest answers 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Many artists use the word ‘‘image’’ disparagingly, to imply tabloid shallowness. A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z With text messaging, the genre is enjoying a renaissance, albeit one marked by shallowness and brevity. Modern Love: GPS on a Path to the Heart 2011-02-11T01:08:11Z Sheila’s interior monologue, the show’s most prominent stylistic device, is a constant slam not only of herself but also of the shallowness, stupidity and ugliness of nearly everyone around her. ‘Physical’ Review: Feeling the Sick Burn 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z The premise felt like one more cynical take on showbiz shallowness and debauchery — “Entourage” and “Episodes” crammed into two ends of a horse costume. ‘BoJack Horseman’ Returns for a Hilarious and Hallucinatory Season 3 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Its playfulness is undeniable, and while it forces the viewer to think about the shallowness of our consumer society, it does so without apparent irony or subversiveness. At 37 feet tall, Jeff Koons’s flower-draped ‘Split-Rocker’ demands a whole lotta love 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z “Some people suggested we did drugs together because he has tattoos and I am plain,” Mulaney says, a gentle poke at the shallowness of the media and public. John Mulaney Punctures His Persona in ‘Baby J’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z The way Ben intellectualizes his own shallowness feels so accurate — and so repellent — that you may wonder if the film can redeem him enough to make another 90 minutes in his company anything but insufferable. ‘Vengeance’ Review: A Dish Best Served With Frito Pie 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Will the new AI systems help us deal with this plague of shallowness … or make it worse? How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z But the choreography also emphasizes the shallowness of the film, which gestures toward relevance without finding a coherent historical or political point of view. Review: ‘7 Days in Entebbe’ Revisits a Notorious Hijacking 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z I now understand there's both a shallowness and a depth to Newman's narrator. Rumer's old music: Randy Newman - Marie 2012-05-25T13:24:57Z To her, fitness equals shallowness and obsession with wealth. Review: In ‘American Housewife,’ a Plus-Size Mom in the Land of Fitbits 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z "Los Angeles had been derided for many years, known for Hollywood and the supposed shallowness of its culture." LACMA's most reliable patrons: 10 million taxpayers 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z An exception that exposed the emotional shallowness of the piece as a whole: Kudra’s epic solo to “Danny Boy,” brilliantly in the moment, in the music and full of feeling. BodyTraffic brings a light touch — perhaps too light — to the Broad Stage 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z She hated the magazine’s worship of luxury, the lack of racial diversity, and the shallowness of women’s publications generally. Ten years of Jezebel: the website that changed women's media forever 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z He loves movies, but Hollywood, with its shallowness and gossip, has always repelled him. Review: In ‘Café Society,’ Rearranging Old Preoccupations 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z Philosophical critic Denis Diderot complained of the shallowness of rococo art and championed a new kind of serious, high-minded painting. Arcade Fire's Rococo lampoons a frivolous age through art 2010-12-02T16:35:00Z As fiction, the novel is D.O.A. — shallowness that requests to be taken seriously. In ‘Bewilderment,’ Richard Powers Smothers Nature With Piety 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z He loved libraries – "I never went to college, so I went to the library", he told the Associated Press – and tried to protect them from the encroachments of short-sighted budgeting and the shallowness of TV. Ray Bradbury and the fever of inspiration 2012-06-06T20:50:17Z With his comments on mankind's enduring shallowness, it's fairly clear he brings some burdens to the stage. Comedy gold: Jackie Mason's A Night at the Opera 2013-02-07T13:10:00Z Let others act as they will, bearing evidence of the shallowness of their positions. Hustler’s denigrating S.E. Cupp “satire” 2012-05-24T20:30:00Z Given the shallowness of the black characters — how they are vehicles for Scout’s story instead of their own — we as readers should raise the bar higher than mere “exposure.” Lots of People Love ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ Roxane Gay Isn’t One of Them. 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z What is scrutinized, most dispiritingly, is the shallowness of our aspirations. Review: ‘Creative Control,’ a Satire of Gadget-Driven Reality 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z I wondered whether the shallowness of the planters would be a problem for future root growth, but Eastwood, who sells 100 varieties of Japanese maples, said the maple’s root patterns are much broader than deep. Why every garden should have a potted tree (and how to grow them) 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The show pursues this central idea with equal tirelessness and shallowness. Review: Orlando Bloom Among the Immigrant Beasts in ‘Carnival Row’ 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Thanks for reminding people of the shallowness of the response, so far, and how instructive that is. Hollywood Uses the Very Women It Exploited to Change the Subject 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z Indeed, social media’s dance stars defy the judgment of shallowness. Janet Jackson hired her as a backup dancer. Instagram made her a star. 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z Still, the critique raises the question of whether there is complicity in the red carpet’s predictable shallowness. On the Red Carpet, a Revolt Builds Over the Pageantry 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z "Gob Squad's Kitchen" implicitly skewers the holier-than-thou coolness of Warhol's poseurs — deliberately chosen by the artist for their attractive shallowness — and the numbing banality of the unscripted screen opuses they wafted through. Gob Squad skewers and pays tribute to Warhol's Factory 2012-09-28T22:12:05Z But Stevenson so thoroughly documents Agee’s shallowness and self-regard that his nuanced assessment ultimately seems too charitable. Do Whistle-Blowers Damage National Security? 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z Naomi and Sam take it upon themselves to help Faoud, although they do so in ways that betray both their youth and the shallowness of their impulse to charity. Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z What you will find instead is an impassioned critique of Western society, a relentless assault on contemporary complacency, shallowness, competitiveness and self-regard. ‘Self and Soul’: Mark Edmundson’s biting critique of modern complacency 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z But it’s a horror to think that we’re so susceptible to this level of shallowness. What Does It Mean to ‘Yassify’ Anything? 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z “Triangle of Sadness,” in effect a shaggy-dog art-house reboot of “Gilligan’s Island,” has many insights to offer about the shallowness of supermodels, the vulgarity of Russian oligarchs and the brutal inequality of global consumer capitalism. ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review: Don’t Worry, Be Happy 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Plus, she worries about the impact of the shallowness of showbiz on her daughters. Funny, messy and real: why Sharon Horgan is the most watchable woman on TV 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z But when she essays anything like a sustained line, you're aware of shallowness in the tone. Cherubini: Overtures and Arias from Florence to Paris ? review 2012-02-08T15:30:02Z In a novel of expertly rendered horrors, the relative shallowness also disturbs, and thereby detracts. On Loony Island, a Malignant Priest Strips Mental Patients of Free Will 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Though she is inflected with ripples of silly celebrity shallowness, Mr. Salem’s Val nonetheless registers as the sanest person in the room. Review: In ‘Eddie and Dave,’ Van Halen Gets a Makeover 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z Along the way the play, written by Bruce Graham and directed by Ike Schambelan, delivers the usual jokes about the shallowness of popular movies. Theater Review: ‘According to Goldman,’ at the Clurman Theater 2013-04-17T21:18:47Z But the shallowness is still discouraging, especially coming from people who know better. “Mad Men’s” California: Hippies, real estate agents, and a place where even Pete can get laid 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z But does the book’s shallowness paradoxically explain the excitement surrounding it? A Mother and Son, Fleeing for Their Lives Over Treacherous Terrain 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z To discuss it would mean to admit weakness and make oneself susceptible to accusations of shallowness, and yet our preoccupation with being beautiful, thin and toned enough persists. News that will shock exactly no woman: Female body confidence is at an all-time low 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Plenty of contemporary directors can pull tricks or be smart, but not often without succumbing to snark or other shallowness. Satyajit Ray's artifice and honesty set him apart from other film directors 2013-07-22T19:00:01Z It’s just that you’ll risk the atrocity exposing your shallowness, every time. The Mystery of the Oscars: How Do You Really Vote for a Script? 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z As Nick wonders of Gatsby, so readers have wondered of the novel: Is this shallowness I perceive, or miraculous depth? Nearly a Century Later, We’re Still Reading — and Changing Our Minds About — Gatsby 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Sure, he trashed hotel rooms, but that was because he was fighting against all that Hollywood shallowness. Oh, how I loved you, Johnny Depp. Now I see the purple-tinted truth 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z "It's all seamlessly inventive and full of synaesthetic pleasures, but it can't fully compensate for the shallowness in other departments." Raising spirits? 2011-07-20T10:33:32Z Again, that's partly our fault, the public, particularly men, our innate shallowness. 'My humour has always come from anger' 2011-03-06T00:02:01Z But looking away from thornier truths and concealing the singularity of the people at the heart of one’s story risks perpetuating the very shallowness a project like this is meant to oppose. When Your Family Becomes a Noah’s Ark-Style Experiment With Race 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z This game gets high marks for presentation, but is seriously undercut by brevity and shallowness. Game On: "Mafia II" has compelling characters, excellent plot 2010-08-25T19:19:00Z He’s raised shallowness to the level of idolatry. Larry Wilmore goes to Washington: On roasting Beltway egos, Obama’s final year, and why Donald Trump is so dangerous 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z Not only is Annie Hall the most experimental best picture win – it also features an entire section dedicated to viciously roasting the shallowness of awards show culture. My favorite best picture Oscar winner: Annie Hall 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z This shallowness of vocabulary is exacerbated by the structure. Review: A Sunny but Disappointing Take on the Tower of Babel 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Since then I’ve been thinking about the relative shallowness of “visibility” as a goal in and of itself, especially since the past two years have been one long performative celebration of trans visibility. The dark side of “visibility”: How we slept on trans people becoming the new scapegoats of the right 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Everything in "Zola" is heightened to mimic the extremity and shallowness of social media. "Zola" is a cautionary tale about Black women befriending white women 2021-07-05T04:00:00Z Given the recent stir about Hilary Clinton’s fast-food habits and her failure to tip at Chipotle, this shallowness might a problem with the media, not music, but there is also something more pernicious at work. The Music Itself Is a Form of Protest 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z She achieves the lovely feat of allowing us to laugh at Mandy’s shallowness even as we are charmed by her good-heartedness. 2010-01-29T04:55:00Z “Veep’s” writers found an apt metaphor in the season just ended for the shallowness of her concept of leadership. In Washington, the drama never ends “The Bling Ring” is uncompromising in its portrayal of banality and shallowness. Why Hasn’t Sofia Coppola Gotten the Respect an Auteur Deserves? 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Its glory is how complicated a symbol the bag becomes: wealth, treachery, shallowness, his own power and anxiety, his girlfriend’s. Critics? Choice: New CDs: New CDs 2010-06-27T21:17:00Z My day job requires a shallowness that will be fun to play against.” ArtsBeat: In Comes 'Company,' Starring Neil Patrick Harris, in New York Philharmonic Production 2010-12-10T15:00:00Z While ecstasy and acid house told us to forget politics and love one another with the deep shallowness of E, Public Enemy were the cold shower, the wake-up call. Get rich or die tryin': how hip-hop changed the world 2011-08-10T14:29:52Z Stein wrote with a deliberate shallowness that suggests great depth, but here that depth never emerges. Theater Review: In ‘The World Is Round,’ Girl Decides to Climb Mountain 2014-04-22T02:00:01Z “The Future” is not just a rebuke to the idea that her work is somehow shallow; it actively attacks the idea of shallowness. Miranda July Is Totally Not Kidding 2011-07-17T18:23:57Z When these proceedings became open and public, the customary shallowness and flippancy was absent. How an impeachment unfolds: Inside the 1974 Nixon hearings, day by day 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z The first mood defends liberal democracy as a precious inheritance that requires tending; the second excoriates it for its spiritual shallowness, cultural degeneracy and tendency toward an individualist myopia or socialist utopia. Andrew Sullivan on the War Within Conservatism and Why It Matters to All of Us 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z That he is concerned, suddenly, by the shallowness of his own relationships and what they have wrought for him feels unsurprising. John Mayer Is a Wonderland 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z They need a bit of shallowness to cool the heat of their engines, and why else were cute boys put here? Review: Nell Zink’s ‘Nicotine’ Is Hard to Put Down, Despite Its Unruly Plot 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z As to your observation about the piece’s shallowness, Philip: Yes, some of these characters are paper-thin, but so are some of the characters in opera — which is, of course, the source of these stereotypes. A musical whose time has gone: Three Post critics take on ‘Phantom’ 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Luca Silvestrini is the sharpest of comic choreographers; his satires on the shallowness and obsessions of the modern world were wickedly honed in works such as Big Sale and Dear Body. LOL (Lots of Love) - review 2011-01-31T17:54:33Z As I wrote then: “The spirit here is less the divine decadence of Paris, France, than the spoiled shallowness of Paris Hilton.” Lock Up Your Daughters! Part 1: Sofia Coppola’s The Bling Ring 2013-05-16T20:16:39Z They can go see The Great Gatsby, which fawns and lingers over the characters’ flaunted wealth even as it chides them for their shallowness. Occupy the Multiplex: Class Warfare in This Summer’s Movies 2013-06-14T09:45:27Z So when feminists complain that Michelle Obama is bad for feminism, perhaps what they really mean is that her refusal to buy into their narrow definitions of feminism exposes the shallowness of today’s feminist discourse. Michelle Obama: The one woman in America who actually has it all 2013-12-05T19:26:00Z As she points out, it is racist, noting “the shallowness of the black characters — how they are vehicles for Scout’s story instead of their own.” Letters to the Editor 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Constantly mentioning the region only underlines the shallowness of Eleven Madison Park’s approach to it. Restaurant Review: Eleven Madison Park in Midtown South 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z I can’t help feeling that Vidal and Buckley would finally be united, in the afterlife, by their shared horror and shame at the shallowness and artificiality of the political and cultural combat zone they pioneered. How Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley spawned Jon Stewart, Bill O’Reilly and all the horrors of TV news 2015-08-05T04:00:00Z Certain modernist artists attacked the system, while others exposed its vacuity, its emptiness or shallowness, against the darker, more complex reality they thought lay underneath. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Each reader will have to decide whether her shallowness is a flaw of the novel or an accurate portrayal of the flattening power of White privilege. Review | ‘Your Driver Is Waiting’ is a rollicking update of ‘Taxi Driver’ 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z But once in government, the shallowness of its policy proposals is exposed, and its leaders can’t blame others as easily. Opinion | 2023 could be the year that exposes populism for the sham that it is 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z But the area is densely populated, and experts said the shallowness of the quake and inadequate infrastructure contributed to the severe damage, including caved-in roofs and large piles of bricks, concrete, and corrugated metal. Search effort intensifies after Indonesia quake killed 268 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Musk’s fortune-cookie tidbits of wisdom, meanwhile, point to a disconcerting shallowness. Opinion | Time to abandon Twitter, people 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Others, like the writers of the Lost Generation, reveled in exposing the hypocrisies and shallowness of mainstream middle-class culture. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The lead character, initially above all this shallowness, finds social acceptance and happiness only after she starts sharing her life on Instagram. Will Netflix, Hulu and others owe Gen Z an apology? 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Plus, the shallowness of Danni’s relationship with Rowan shines through as soon as the going gets tough. 'Not Okay' tries to indict performative activists. Here's why it falls short 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Their febrile shallowness is not “Twitter-induced”; Twitter is a response to it. Opinion | Blaming social media for academia’s ruin misses a larger, darker truth 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Novak: I had those blind spots and that shallowness and ambition. B.J. Novak and Ashton Kutcher talk ‘Vengeance,’ 'Punk'd' and a 'friend at Davos' 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z The response of congressional Republican leaders to Thursday’s hearing — that it is more important to focus on inflation than sedition — has demonstrated their vast political and moral shallowness. Opinion | History will accept only one Jan. 6 narrative. This committee has it. 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Histrionic personality disorder, Dr Curry said, is linked with "drama and shallowness", and a need to be the centre of attention. Depp v Heard: What you might have missed this week 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Histrionic personality disorder, Curry said, is associated with “drama and shallowness,” and a need to be the center of attention. Psychologist hired by Depp testifies about Heard’s health 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z A beguiling character who likes airplanes, partying, drinking and puttering around his man cave workshop, he is forced to confront his shallowness when his wife’s pregnancy begins to go badly. Review: A pair of baritones and a violinist take agency in two new SoCal operas 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z It was at least the third time in recent months that he spoke about the subject, one that appears to encapsulate for him the hypocrisy and shallowness of Western elites. Putin goes into battle on a second front: Culture 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z The shallowness and cynicism of the nomination process may well be previewing our political future. Opinion | The Jackson confirmation hearings show a Republican Party in decay 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z “Sex and the City” is as shamelessly superficial as the crowd it memorializes, but so sophisticated in its approach to shallowness that it’s also great fun. The 75 best TV shows on HBO Max right now, according to our experts 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z I’d still taste the fear in my throat, or notice the shallowness of my breathing. Perspective | How I learned to talk about death and dying 2022-03-12T05:00:00Z It’s a story of shallowness — a sad report on the state of today’s evangelical “youth groups” and their elevation of fun over the facts. Disrespectful Aaron Rodgers leads a millennial generation of chronological snobs 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z They are very good at appealing to the vast, shared and profound shallowness common to us all, which is no minor accomplishment. Review | The dark side of Disney’s unexpected love affair with frothy French rococo 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z To highlight the rarity of the shallowness of England's batting this year, consider that since March 1973, England have played 147 Test series of two or more matches. Why current England team is surpassing previous Ashes failures 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Last year's debut single, Internet Religion, skewered the shallowness of social media influencers, as she intoned: "I'm done saving the world, so take a look at these cool shoes." Baby Queen: Meet pop's boldest, sharpest new voice 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z The shallowness of the Parana threatens to cost the country's grains farmers and exporters almost $315 million over a six-month period through August, the Rosario grains exchange said last week. Argentina creates fund to help ease pain from drought-hit Parana river 2021-07-18T04:00:00Z To Mr. Lapid’s critics, however, there was a shallowness to his politics and an arrogance to his manner. Yair Lapid Won’t Be Israel’s Next Leader. But He’s the Power Behind the Throne. 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z He has shown only shallowness, cravenness and negligence. Opinion | Meet Kevin McCarthy, political hollow man 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z Some who worked on that campaign detected an essential shallowness that could lurch privately into conspicuous indecency. Andrew Cuomo’s White-Knuckle Ride 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z The shallowness of my hip joint made this more likely, as did my size, both a genetic inheritance, at least in part. Cook, eat, gym, repeat… has left me in need of major repairs 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z I think we can take this as further evidence of male shallowness. The man who taught Uber how to say sorry 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z In essays and interviews, Mr. Crouch called filmmaker Spike Lee “a middle-class would-be street Negro,” whose films reflected “fantasy” versions of Black communities and “the fundamental shallowness that you get from a propagandist.” Stanley Crouch, combative writer, intellectual and authority on jazz, dies at 74 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Part of that is that I am a goofball, but I also have a very serious side and can play dramatic roles, so it’s just the shallowness of Hollywood and the way they see things. Q&A: Why David Arquette pursued his pro wrestling dream to the brink of death 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z For all her shallowness and privilege and meddling tendencies, she is someone who desires to be better — even while sideswiping a car. 'Clueless' just turned 25. Has it aged a day? As if! 2020-07-29T04:00:00Z In a moment revealing the shallowness of Trump's understanding of cybersecurity, the candidate compared the threats from foreign intelligence to his youngest son: 5 shocking revelations from new records of Trump’s intel briefing 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z This refusal often felt like a lark but, from the evidence gathered by Gopnik, his shallowness lay deeper than that; it went all the way down. Review: Was Andy Warhol a saint or scourge, genius or dolt? A new biography befits a great life 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z “The obsession with Big Ben chiming really highlights the shallowness of the Vote Leave campaign,” Neil Gray, a lawmaker with the Scottish National Party, wrote on Twitter. Will Big Ben Chime for Brexit? It’s a $650,000 Question 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z He feels empowered when he wakes up to “enlighten the world” with his early morning stream of twisted tweets, which only puts his arrogance and shallowness on full display. How to spell out Donald J. Trump? 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z To some critics, Mr. Simon’s clarity of phrasing and adroit fingerings were undercut by a certain shallowness. Abbey Simon, piano virtuoso attentive to music’s ‘inner life,’ dies at 99 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z In this particular case, the amount of creep and its shallowness would do little to affect the timing of when the next earthquake strikes the Garlock fault, Scharer said. Unprecedented movement detected on California earthquake fault capable of 8.0 temblor 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z There's a reason soccer is so popular, there's a reason it hooks American who also like good sports, and there's a reason beyond my own shallowness that I'm not quite getting it. Screw it, I'm going to become a Liverpool fan - Golf Digest 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z But I invested a great deal of trust in Mueller, who is the living repudiation of the shoddiness and shallowness of the Trump era. Opinion | Mueller wasn’t our savior. We are. 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z By revealing the shallowness of their existing knowledge, this prompts a more moderate and humble attitude. The science of influencing people: six ways to win an argument 2019-06-30T04:00:00Z We are denounced for the shallowness of our vanity, when what we are feeling is the sudden, vertiginous realisation that physical decay isn’t trivial. Reggie Perrin or Walter White: what does a 21st-century midlife crisis look like? 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The negotiations are hardly going according to plan, revealing the shallowness of Trump’s boasts of being a master dealmaker. It has been a disastrous week for President Donald Trump’s foreign policy 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Yet I remain intrigued by a man who chronicled the shallowness of his own peers. Bret Easton Ellis is part dinosaur, part sage. I’m intrigued | Suzanne Moore 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Though Trump and his team are savaging the media for its coverage of the scandal, the president is benefiting from its shallowness. Opinion | Trump may not be a Russian agent. He’s just a Russian stooge. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z It is of course Trump’s fault in his shallowness. Warren’s foreign policy shows she’s missing why Trump was elected | William M Arkin 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z When Morf tries to listen to an installation audio piece, Dease somehow blocks the programmed whale song, and instead blasts out voices, which excoriate Morf for his shallowness and past sins. Netflix’s Velvet Buzzsaw is an artist’s fondest power fantasy 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z “There’s a sense of shallowness to social media,” he said. ‘Corrupt Chris’ and ‘Two-Faced Tammy’: Candidates Try Their Best Trump Impressions 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Yet novelists might struggle with his shallowness and lack of hinterland: he would not necessarily make a great literary character. Mommy dearest: a psychiatrist puts Donald Trump on the couch 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z Whereas many former Administration officials have publicly vented their frustration with Trump’s intellectual shallowness, Sanders may not see a problem; like the President, she is too busy to read books. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump’s Battering Ram 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z It was a stark illustration of the GOP’s callousness toward the working poor, not to mention the shallowness of its own supposed dedication to the concept of local self-governance. Recent Missouri editorials 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Other listeners I spoke to expressed a similar sense of connection: the podcasters’ meandering, two-hour interviews are a relief from the shallowness of social media. Opinion | The Podcast Bros Want to Optimize Your Life 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z It was the extent of firsthand memory for human events—the way it felt to be there then—and it reminds us of the shallowness of American history. Private Dreams and Public Ideals in San Francisco 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z Kwon's Bongwan becomes an intricately miserable portrait in untrustworthy shallowness and the futility in shaping reality as a way to forget. 'The Day After' adds another wonderfully understated chapter to Hong Sang-soo's rapidly expanding oeuvre “You know women and their cellphones,” a pastor joked during a sermon, knowing that any reference to women’s materialism, shallowness or shopping habits from the pulpit would always get a gentle chuckle from the congregation. Review | Women’s friendships aren’t dysfunctional — they’re essential 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z Bring back the shallowness and the fun of the old Grammys and Oscars. Calendar Letters: Don't go hating on Justin Timberlake 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z The women living at Rose Home reveal the shallowness of that metaphor. Opinion | The Women the Abortion War Leaves Out 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z But the shallowness of the America First policy, coupled with the president’s intemperate statements that loosen us from our moral and ethical moorings, present a much deeper problem for the national security agencies. How Trump is slowly destroying America's national security agencies | Jeffrey H Smith 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z Apparently he is swayed by grand ceremonies, which reveals his shallowness and ignorance. Trump, Aiming to Coax Xi Jinping, Bets on Flattery 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z The story here is thin, and the movie’s take on the shallowness of Los Angeles relationships isn’t exactly original. New video: 'Wind River' is a finely crafted crime thriller and a heartening hit 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z Trump’s never cared much for integrity, but the dangers of his shallowness have never glowed more bright. Why Trump's attempt to pit Pittsburgh against Paris is absurd | Lucia Graves 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z And Tam from time to time mentioned his dismay over these obstacles and the shallowness of “The Brady Bunch,” but was also proud of its positive statement about blended families. Tam Spiva was a TV writer from the last golden age 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z His pinprick bombing in Syria without even a glimmer of a long-term strategy shows his shallowness and thoughtless character, not his command of foreign affairs or considered strategy. Opinion | Trump’s foreign policy is thoughtless, not flexible 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Like the U.S. missile strike conducted this month against a Syrian military base, the military decision to use a super bomb in Afghanistan has only underscored the shallowness of U.S. political and diplomatic strategy. Trump Drops the Mother of All Bombs on Afghanistan 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z The content and consequences of his tweets are bad enough; worse is the disordered personality traits they reveal — vindictiveness, shallowness and lack of discipline. Opinion | Trump’s failing presidency has the GOP in a free fall 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z They may now be reacting viscerally against Trump, because of the crude way in which he takes on their shallowness, but it doesn’t mean anything to his supporters. Trump and Mussolini: The same, only different? Eleven key lessons from historical fascism 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Wilkinson’s book arrives as Yale, plumbing new depths of shallowness, renames Calhoun College. Opinion | To understand today’s politics, look at Yale in the ’60s 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z But the shallowness of Trump’s preferred form of communication indicates deeper things. Opinion | Why a tweeting president is so bad for our politics 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z At its peak, broadcast TV was derided for its shallowness, for its crass commercialism, for the way it celebrated conformity and rejected heterodoxy, and mostly for often not being very creative or entertaining. How Netflix Is Deepening Our Cultural Echo Chambers 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z There’s a snobbishness in our literary world that equates laughter with shallowness. 'I fell out of bed laughing': writers on their favourite funny book 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z Her strongest opponent is clearly unqualified to be president of anything, so I'm going to hold my nose and vote for her, but I remain unimpressed by the fundamental shallowness of her campaign. Donations to Foundation Vexed Hillary Clinton’s Aides, Emails Show 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Certainly, there is enough shallowness and egotism to go around, especially in our image-obsessed society. How to Project Power 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z She would also further expose the shallowness of Mr. Trump’s agenda. Health Care Deserves More Attention on the Campaign Trail 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z As the Obama presidency winds down, the shallowness of this arrangement has become apparent. The Black Vote: History Demands Strategy 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Unified by their opposition to Hillary Clinton, most Republicans are overlooking Trump’s shallowness and incompetence on foreign policy. At their convention, Republicans will overlook Trump’s foreign policy incompetence 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z In a news conference near the ninth hole of the Turnberry links, Trump, once again, revealed the profound shallowness of his understanding of global affairs. Trump offers the kind of simplistic fixes that 'Brexit' supporters sought 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Its commentary on the shallowness of the "Los Angeles modeling scene" I had less high hopes for. The Neon Demon: a spoiler-filled chat about the year’s best or worst movie 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z The NYT is guilty of pandering to the ugliest representative of our embarrassing national shallowness because it makes their bottom line sing. Lights, Camera, Trump 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z I’m never other than astonished by the shallowness of the thinking in the policy cliques. “The scope of our failure”: The real story of our decades-long foreign policy disaster that set the Middle East on fire 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z And he takes great issue with Trump’s shallowness and the fact that he is all “impulses and instincts”, a man who doesn’t reason from first principles. Donald Trump is the man Rush Limbaugh always wanted to be 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Toward the end of his town hall in a crowded school cafeteria in Hudson, New Hampshire, on Sunday, Marco Rubio said something that summed up the shallowness of his campaign and his character. The lightweight candidate: Rubio’s NH town hall left no doubt he’s in it for himself and the plutocrats who fund his campaign 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Her endorsement of Donald Trump was entirely devoid of policy content — a speech that did not even aspire to shallowness. Trump and Palin’s war against reason 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Ironically, shallowness and anomie – an anathema for most right-thinking people – became my nirvana. Social anxiety ruined my life – until I found the one place I felt at home | Simon Wilson-Cortijo 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z The shallowness of yuan markets—both in China and outside the country—raises questions for many central banks about the need to boost holdings of the currency. IMF Move to Give Yuan Reserve Status Likely to Boost China Assets 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z And an obsession with others’ resources “contributes to the moral disorientation and shallowness of our time.” What Bernie Sanders doesn’t understand about economic equality 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z They don’t disagree, and they don’t like what they see—corruption, shallowness and selfishness in the systems all around them. America Is So in Play 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z In my original review, I said that Fallout Shelter, for all its pretty aesthetics and association with one of gaming’s best franchises, is a game that perfectly encapsulates the shallowness of mobile. Why You Should Be Playing 'Fallout Shelter' On Android Right Now 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z In my original review, I said that Fallout Shelter, for all its pretty aesthetics and association with one of gaming’s best franchises, is a game that perfectly encapsulates the shallowness of mobile. A Warning To New 'Fallout Shelter' Players On Android 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The autobiography the young man posted online that day is notable for its shallowness and its entitlement. One year after the Isla Vista massacre, a father's gun control mission is personal 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z Their shallowness, overconfidence and selfishness are widely denounced. The Millennial Myth: Why Generational Labels Don't Work For Hiring 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Even with the warmer tones, the common thread running through Clinton’s media criticism from the 1990s to today is a desire for substantive policy coverage over the shallowness of day-to-day horse race coverage. Hillary Clinton offers reporters and a yardstick 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Of course he is -- he's a master of shallowness and vanity, a purveyor of it, an exploiter of it. The Jet Set Life of Karl Lagerfeld’s Favorite Male Model — for Now 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z Takahata takes this narrative and runs with it, exploring the transient nature of life, the shallowness of wealth and materialism, and the absurdity of societal roles along the way. 'The Tale of the Princess Kaguya' is the most gorgeous film you'll see all year 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z It gives the films a strange airlessness that makes “Sin City” initially bracing in its conceptual surrealism before the tedium of its shallowness sets in. Review: ‘Sin City’ dives back into a noir abyss 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z It gives the films a strange airlessness that makes "Sin City" initially bracing in its conceptual surrealism before the tedium of its shallowness sets in. Review: 'Sin City' dives back into a noir abyss 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z “To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag wavers — to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?” Book review: ‘The Invisible Bridge,’ fall of Nixon and rise of Reagan, by Rick Perlstein Cheering for a stranger, or a player you formerly cheered against, as he jumps on your team’s moving bandwagon, can make even the most playoff-giddy fan feel a pang of foolishness, shallowness, or even hypocrisy. The Risks and Rewards of the Baseball Rental 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z It suggests a cluelessness, a shallowness and an incapacity for reverence that have come to feel like the signature of these times. Don’t take selfies in Auschwitz 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Engelberg’s “path of shallowness” can alleviate strain, especially from disabling byproducts of persistent maintenance: sadness, anxiety, anger and then remorse about all those roiling emotions. Living With Cancer: Chronic, Not Cured 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z The train was part of “Luxury and Degradation,” an exhibition at International With Monument Gallery in SoHo that examined shallowness, excess and the dangers of luxury. Asian Collectors Give Christie’s a High-Yield Night 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z "Except, as the nonsensical timeline and shallowness of the heartbreak show, these things were not that great but only seem so because of nostalgia." Arizona 'anti-gay' bill a battle of hypotheticals 2014-02-26T18:36:56Z It’s not the narcissism, the shallowness, the stupidity, or the obliviousness. Why Donald Trump Loves To Be Hated 2013-08-31T13:15:00Z These figures expose once again the shallowness of our recovery. UK workers' wage squeeze is longest since the 1870s 2013-07-16T17:09:11Z She followed “the path of shallowness” by producing a series of droll comics on the “insanely cheerful” chemotherapy booklets and radiation technicians she encountered. Living With Cancer: Chronic, Not Cured 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Frye said Johnson’s remarks are “wrong insulting,” reflect “shallowness and a lack of understanding” about what the judges do. Judges complain that Social Security ‘quota system’ for cases hurts taxpayers 2013-05-01T23:17:00Z Many of its bobbing pump jacks are relatively short, a telltale sign of the shallowness of the wells and the ease of extracting their prize. Vast Oil Reserve May Now Be Within Reach, and Battle Heats Up 2013-02-04T02:00:28Z That says more about the writer's bad taste and shallowness than about a holiday classic people have loved for decades. The Top 10 Worst Christmas Movies 2012-12-25T03:00:00Z "We are just trying to find, because of the shallowness of the group, different solutions which allow us to attack and defend well," said Rodgers. Rodgers defends tactical changes 2012-11-29T19:32:08Z But does this really mean, as Mr Schwartz Giron argued, that the euro zone’s problem has been the shallowness of its recession thus far? Monetary policy: Making better institutions, in America and Europe 2012-11-20T16:19:10Z "If England win it will be forgotten, but it will not forgive the shallowness of their thinking." The Spin 2012-07-12T11:22:04Z Teaching with a view to examinations lowers the teacher in the eyes of his pupils; learning with a view to examinations is apt to produce shallowness and dishonesty. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z Fries is stigmatized as one of the “ringleaders of shallowness” who were bent on substituting a fancied tie of enthusiasm and friendship for the established order of the state. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z "There is a transparency of shallowness which occasionally hides a certain depth of mud." The House 'Round the Corner 2012-04-14T02:00:22.063Z This tendency to be satisfied with piecemeal performances illustrates painfully the shallowness and incoherency of much of our educational work. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z But the drumbeat of mishaps for the Mets is particularly troubling given the shallowness of their bench. Mets? Spring Training Injuries Frustrate Terry Collins 2012-03-15T00:24:45Z She was of the centrifugal temperament, hence the resultant shallowness of her work. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z In spite of the shallowness and his culture and his extremely weak character, he enjoyed an ever-increasing popularity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z “Priests of all persuasions,” says Oliver Goldsmith, “are enemies to ridicule, because they know it to be a formidable antagonist to fanaticism, and they preach up gravity to conceal their own shallowness of imposture.” Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z She felt intuitively the shallowness of his sympathy, the selfishness of his thoughts. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z The thinness, shallowness and dry technicality of the original school have given place to a rich and varied exposition of the facts of organic life in its origin, development and results. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z But disdaining to listen to excuses, of which the speaker's manner betrayed the shallowness, Vaughan opened the bedroom door and passed in. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z Weird, melancholy, and terribly malodorous, owing to the shallowness of the graves, the impression made by this vast cemetery is solely painful. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z The flippancy and shallowness of Ingersoll and his school disgusted me. Miss Ellis's Mission 2012-02-11T03:04:04.613Z According to my views of propriety, it would be unbecoming for me to say that your argument on these questions is "a piece of plausible shallowness." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z One woman said Jobs was a "visionary and charismatic individual who was at the same time shallow and callous to people in his personal relationships" — a trait she ascribed to Jobs' "narcissism and shallowness." FBI releases file on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs 2012-02-10T06:00:00Z She said Jobs’s personal life was “lacking” because of his “narcissism and shallowness.” Jobs FBI File Notes Drug Use, Tendency to ‘Distort Reality’ 2012-02-10T05:03:41Z The shape and shallowness of the bridge make it impossible to sound a single string with the bow; the arrangement of the strings suggests that they were intended to be sounded in pairs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z Try to ignore the current shallowness in American politics, if you can, and assume that the federal budget deficit will be among the major issues of the 2012 campaign. Wonkbook: Will Republicans wait till April to see Romney's tax returns? 2012-01-19T12:53:09Z In a country where scarcely a village is found That has not its author sublime and profound, For some one to be slightly shoal is a duty, And Willis's shallowness makes half his beauty. Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole 2012-01-09T03:00:25.087Z Common and conspicuous, I say, as this experiment is, even the scientific observer has too often dealt with it with the shallowness of the platform lecturer. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z A teacher that is not in the habit of questioning persistently and searchingly can have no idea of the depth and at the same time the shallowness of the religious thinking of the average scholar. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z Great learning and great shallowness go together very well under one hat. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z If not, however,—if there must be a choice of good and evil at the outset of life, who would not rather see the fault of narrowness than of shallowness? Household Education 2011-12-02T03:00:25.437Z And yet the difference is owing to the depth or shallowness of the part we see, or to the nature of the bottom. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z But I began to see the shallowness in that world. Ex-banker turned Hindu monk urges Wall St to meditate 2011-11-17T08:43:36Z With his resentment of her counsel came her first disheartening insight into the shallowness and perversity of his nature. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z Maldonado, Montevideo, and Colonia are the principal ports, but the extreme shallowness of the Plate prevents them from being classed as first-rate harbours for modern vessels. The South American Republics Part I of II 2011-11-06T02:00:14.827Z These alone were possessed of the indispensable qualities: the journalist's curiosity, eager to know, little caring about the relative importance of what he knows, and the teacher's lucidity, not unmixed with shallowness. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z The sailors had disappeared; the commerce, owing mainly to the shallowness of the water in the harbor, had gone to Boston and New York. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z "I didn't hate those people but I began to understand what drives them and how much shallowness and suffering is there inside." Ex-banker turned Hindu monk urges Wall St to meditate 2011-11-17T08:43:36Z They were melodies in whose bottomless shallowness glimmered neither consolation nor hope. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z The Reformed Church meanwhile flourished, though vacillating between methodistic narrowness and rationalistic shallowness, growing both inwardly and outwardly, and also the Lutheran communities, which outside of Alsace were only thinly scattered, enjoyed great prosperity. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z Few men have been able to talk so much of their love without betraying its shallowness and self-consciousness, or of their prayers without exciting a doubt of their manly sincerity. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z I cannot close this paper without expressing my deep sense of the feebleness and shallowness of all that I have advanced, on a subject of really commanding interest. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z Lamb's poems are not of the best; they have a haltingness—like that in his speech,—with none of Rogers's glibness and currency, and none of his shallowness either. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z The curve of the chimney arch was wide and shallow, the curve above the window was still wider, and of a similar delicate shallowness, the white roof rose delicately vaulted. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z Its complete selfishness and shallowness, its spite, its rancour, its hard worldliness, above all, its nauseous pietism, had filled him with disgust. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Our Lord had already observed the shallowness of men who immediately with joy receive the word, yet have no root. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z The rush of water was dangerous for a small boat, and the shallowness prevented the use of a ship. Great Ralegh 2011-08-16T02:00:43.100Z Large steamers are obliged to anchor eight or ten miles, or even more, below the city, on account of the shallowness of the river at this point. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z We remained in the river some time, being unable to pass the bar, in consequence of the shallowness of the water in the channel. Rambles by Land and Water or Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico 2011-07-29T02:00:23.127Z Hamsun's shrewdness had penetrated to the weakness of American civilization, its externalism, its materialism, its dryness and shallowness. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z If indifference be the first danger, and shallowness the second, mixed motive is the third. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z From what has already been said, it will be gathered that Dionysius was a person of remarkable versatility, and at the same time unusually free from those snares of the versatile man, shallowness and inaccuracy. St. Dionysius of Alexandria Letters and Treatises 2011-06-29T02:00:23.247Z The Kertch roads are often closed against vessels for three or four months continuously; the anchorage is unsafe, and often disastrous, both from the want of shelter and from the shallowness of the water. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The rapids prevent the passage of steam-boats during the greater part of the year, on account of the shallowness of the water and the strength of the current. The City of the Mormons or, Three Days at Nauvoo, in 1842 2011-06-23T02:00:26.503Z Now, don't you see how penetrating Alfred was, to find her shallowness out when she was trying her best to captivate him? Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z The contrast gives a fine illustration of the inaccurate shallowness of the Frenchman's whole conception of the sacred life. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z Shallowness is the rule; a comfortable shallowness, which, unknowing of better things, measures all other minds with its own limited plummet line, and can conceive of no deeper depth. A Word to Women 2011-06-08T02:00:18.457Z This was caused by the depth or shallowness of the water which flowed between us and the white rocks. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z And I do not mean that there was any shallowness about the girl's nature; though assuredly the placidity would be wanting. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z Religion suffers from a narrowness and shallowness which broader and deeper culture must remove. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z De Long landed, in 77� 15� N., 155� E., September 17th, with Dr. Ambler and twelve men, having been obliged to abandon his boat, owing to the shallowness of the river. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z Faults to be careful of: deceit, shallowness, a "me-too" servility and timidity. Manual of the Enumeration A Text Book on the Sciences of the Enumeration 2011-05-02T02:00:20.220Z This necessity for invisibility, together with the shallowness of the zone that suffices for producing a decisive fire effect, has of late years very much affected the choice of ground for a line of trenches. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z The shallowness of the water, however, renders it necessary for the vessel to anchor near a mile from the shore, where there is not more than fourteen feet water. Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. I 2011-03-24T02:00:11.430Z I think the great German traveller must have been misinformed, as there has been no silting up to account for its present shallowness. Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life 2011-03-23T02:00:25.120Z But soon they, too, recall the shallowness of the lake, and see nothing strange in the fugitive attempting to escape across it. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z He recalled all this with real sorrow, not unmingled with contempt for the callow youth who had sat here indulging in boyish fancies, the wickedness whereof was surpassed only by their shallowness. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z So many things, such wide and interesting fields, he did not so much think about as cover with a large enveloping shallowness.... Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Indeed it is not the subject the poet chooses that one objects to, but to the absence of ideas, or the shallowness or triviality of the idea. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z This is owing to the shallowness of Lake Erie, where every storm turns up the muddy bed from the bottom, and discolours the whole river. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z She was so bright, so dazzling, that at first sight one missed the selfishness of the weak, red-lipped mouth, the shallowness of the blue eyes. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z Whatever her outward religion might be, she was at heart a materialist, not from conviction, but from shallowness, due to the absence of all the higher powers of reflection and imagination. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z The shallowness of the lower stream, where the current is sluggish, is probably due to the great quantities of silt brought down by these floods. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z She was entirely unable, from the intrinsic shallowness of her nature, to appreciate her husband's nobler qualities or his intense chivalric devotion to herself. Quicksands 2011-01-15T03:00:33.213Z She was on one of the many wide bridges that span the long pools dotted over the Heath—pools shelving at the sides with an effect of shallowness and deepening suddenly in the middle. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z I reply: This argument, like the others, betrays great shallowness and a negligent and thoughtless reading of Scripture. Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z It’s rarely deliberate; shallowness is a more common media failing than malice. Darwin's media: Surviving the info-glut 2011-01-10T17:35:00Z Yet despite the thriving industries devoted to beauty, diet and fashion, despite the imperative to "not look old," we still feel embarrassed admitting our concerns, fearing accusations of shallowness and vanity. Poverty supresses children's genetic potential, study says 2011-01-10T18:27:00Z And watching this matrimonial by-play McTaggart felt a growing scorn for the shallowness of the social life in which he found himself involved. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z They patiently and rather devastatingly answer their critics on their equality trust website – and, well, if I worked for Policy Exchange I would think carefully before throwing around accusations of shallowness in future. The book that has the Tories running scared 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z But the play provoked a sharp backlash: in personal emails, blogs and even on my Facebook page, I found myself defending the work and my review against charges of shallowness. Why the production of Enron bombed on Broadway 2010-05-05T20:00:00Z His prospects at the World Cup are fragile enough as it is, considering the shallowness of the squad, but the workload at club level has at least been reduced now for many players. European failure gives Fabio Capello reason to cheer 2010-04-08T21:10:00Z This was real stagecraft: a fine manager taking a stand against shallowness and negativity in the claret and blue half of Birmingham. 'It is not in my nature to down tools' 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z For months past he had postponed a thorough survey of his liabilities, with the shallowness of his character, preferring to ignore the worst. The Man with the Double Heart 2010-12-21T22:55:56.757Z Communications scholar Howard Rheingold believes the Internet fosters "shallowness, credulity, distraction," with the result that our minds struggle "to discipline and deploy attention in an always-on milieu." 2010-01-08T16:01:00Z As to the charge of shallowness, it is not borne out by his speech on this occasion. The True Benjamin Franklin Still I think it extremely probable that observations directed to this end would prove the comparative shallowness of the upper portions of the Glacier de L�chaud. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. Their work had the dash as well as the shallowness of an ascendant and idle class, and in Croker is touched everywhere with beauty—a gentle Arcadian beauty. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry But, yet he was happy at being able to hesitate about her and to refute that first suspicion of shallowness by his second thought. Majesty A Novel The Merrimac could not follow on account of the shallowness of the water, but remained out in the channel awaiting the other's return. Terry's Trials and Triumphs If Clarissa did not see the shallowness, the sheer indecency, of discarding one's human relations as if they were old clothes, he could not make her see it. The Preliminaries And Other Stories “I—I cared for someone else,” said Margaret, thickly, unwilling to be convicted of shallowness. The Master's Violin He carries haughtily the long wig of antiquated stupidity, and does not see the shallowness of the swamp in which he wallows. The Progressionists, and Angela. Thinking of that quiet voice, that gentle smile, the poise and dignity of all the little personality, he could not connect them with hysterical shallowness. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece The heaviest curse that lies on men like me is to watch those who rise to eminence in the world, and know their utter shallowness and incapacity. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) Embarking at four a.m. we sailed down the river for two hours, when our progress was arrested by the shallowness of the water. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea Primeval forces held her in their grasp, and all at once her shallowness fell away from her, leaving her free. The Master's Violin First it described how the Destroyer had hung about the Danish coast, but had been greatly embarrassed by the density of the water, owing to the shallowness of the North Sea. John Dene of Toronto A Comedy of Whitehall I am a shallow, feeble creature, but the shallowness was in thinking that I couldn't love my husband—not in loving him now. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece But note more closely its hugeness, its Godlike vastness, "Rivers!" not a tricklet, or a babbling brook—by its babbling proclaiming its shallowness—or a stream, or a river, but Rivers! The Spirit-Filled Life The shallowness of the harbour necessitates lighterage and repeated loading of cargoes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" In consequence of the shallowness of the Dutch harbours, the draught of their ships was also considerably less than that of the English vessels of corresponding force. Ancient and Modern Ships. Part 1. Wooden Sailing Ships The retreating army reached Alexandria on the 27th of April, but the fleet was stopped by the shallowness of the water above the falls, and the officers despaired of saving it. The Greater Republic A History of the United States Ripple marks and current bedding further point, to the shallowness of the water at the places where the rocks were made. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" In consequence of the extreme shallowness of the water, the boat could not get within thirty feet of the shore. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] All that I have seen of life only shows the shallowness of what is called the public service. A Day's Ride A Life's Romance Moreover he could not but observe the lives of those around him who were so well satisfied with their moral edifices, and he recognized that their satisfaction was due to nothing but hypocrisy or shallowness. St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, Vol. I A Practical Exposition A look of what seemed noble pain was on his face, impatience at the shallowness of things. Rose MacLeod The nave, for some reason, inexplicable on first sight, is low and unimpressive, caused doubtless by the grandeur of the supporting pillars of the roof and the shallowness of the groining above. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine “There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallowness.” Essays on the Constitution of the United States By comparison with the miserable shallowness of his purse, they seemed enormous. Their Son; The Necklace Her seeming shallowness, her glaring affectations, no longer deceived him. The Silent Barrier On account of the indications of shallowness ahead the Amasis was steaming very slowly, occasionally merely drifting with the current. A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise Mrs. Prometheus shrugs at the shallowness of those silly bachelors, and doesn't bother even to comment on their point of view. The Crow's Nest Above all, he detested the modern journalistic craze for novelty, and despised the shallowness which rates cleverness above wisdom. The History of Freedom I knew her husband, Ursula; a man Well versed in all the wisdom of the time; Somewhat well gone in years, but lovable Beyond the shallowness of youth, and rich In mellow charity. The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts Surely I cannot be the only reader to whom the impertinence of this is as offensive, as its shallowness is ridiculous! Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford I thought I had bested him but realized in doing so I was only personifying the shallowness I strove to dismantle through argument. The Land of Look Behind Since Pedagogics is capable of no such exact definitions of its principle and no such logical deduction as other sciences, the treatises written upon it abound more in shallowness than any other literature. Pedagogics as a System All these things are consistent with great shallowness of sacred knowledge. The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching But the shallowness and untenableness of Michaelis' view will appear still more strongly, when we state the positive argument for our view. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 The truth of this dictum of St. Thomas cannot be too much insisted on in this age of many books, which affords such incentives to literary dissipation and consequent shallowness. Notes and Queries, Number 215, December 10, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc A man might say anything against a woman to save his neck; she was wise enough and deep enough, for all her shallowness, to know that people were quick to understand a thing like that. The Bondboy "That was clever of you to notice the shallowness of the footprints," she said. The Monk of Hambleton By his 'execution,' consummate though it be, he is unable to conceal his insincerity and shallowness. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) The excessive moisture and the impenetrable subsoil, and the shallowness of the congenial sand that encouraged them to root make the young trees decay in adolescence. The Broom-Squire Or if it proved that yours was not, I should be amused at the shallowness of the Claire that was, for having been so simple a dunce as to imagine that you were worth while. Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author She was beautiful—most beautiful; and if she was shallow, well, then the very shallowness only made her more attractive. East of the Shadows Stripped of all sentiment, war is organized and wholesale murder, a savage and awful paradox which proclaims the shallowness of civilization. Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association Out in the North Sea the great British battleships steamed in as near the coast as the shallowness of the water would permit. Aircraft and Submarines The Story of the Invention, Development, and Present-Day Uses of War's Newest Weapons Continuous happiness had left her light-hearted even to shallowness. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life The banks were high above the boat, through the present shallowness of the river. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 The narrowness and shallowness of the area of our occupation struck all observers at once. With Manchesters in the East The slowness of the current and the shallowness of the water are important, for with a swift current or deep water many of the particles of float-gold may escape without touching the quicksilver. Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining We have now the melancholy proof of the shallowness of all the declamation on the subject. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 If men would no longer admire the shallowness of such women they would undoubtedly aim higher. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Yet whether on her part it were perversity or mere shallowness, the result was the same. The Paliser case Perhaps nothing shows the shallowness of men more than the tricks they think sufficient to deceive. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule And there was only one way to deal with such shallowness––that was with firm and unmistakable severity. Once to Every Man This makes them, at first, attractive to the intellect, which always loves clear and distinct views; but afterwards, when it is seen that they obtain clearness by means of shallowness they are found unsatisfactory. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors The barges in which we now embarked were very small, owning to the shallowness of the river. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton And his last written utterance, signed 'Your Old Niebuhr,' contains a lament that 'depth, sincerity, originality, heart and affection are disappearing,' and that 'shallowness and arrogance are becoming universal.' The History of Dartmouth College Cheery old maids are the condemnation of modern English womanhood Their frequency in England shows the shallowness of the average modern woman's passion. Too Old for Dolls A Novel The one is insulted by the very shallowness of its chicanery, while its rank plebbishness disgusts the other. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness There, fish, thanks to their immense numbers, and the shallowness of the water in most of the lakes and streams, the bears are enabled to catch almost at discretion. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Another great evil against good sanitation, exists in the shallowness of their graves. In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 When shallowness of nature has been recognised as being that of the average Indian, it simplifies your relations with him. India and the Indians Teaching with a view to them lowers the teacher in the eyes of his pupils; learning with a view to them is apt to produce shallowness and dishonesty. Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays Some historians have adduced the incidents of this era as illustrating the shallowness of Japanese loyalty. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era She was fond of Eileen, but, simple as she was, she had not had Eileen with her pretty constantly for many years without being aware of a certain shallowness in the girl. Love of Brothers Of this classic "patriotism" the world requires a Renaissance, that we may be saved from the shallowness of artificial commercial Empires. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Many instances might be given of the shallowness of the Indian's mind. India and the Indians Several officers went up the Sedger in a yawl till they were stopped by the shallowness of the water. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Wang's doctrines, on the other hand, while they cannot escape the charge of shallowness on all occasions, serve the moral purpose for which they were propagated better than those of the rival school. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era But in the shallowness of your understanding, you have mistaken the spirit of the times; it will not countenance or support a Cataline. Nuts for Future Historians to Crack A little shallowness might be useful to many a poet! Pearls of Thought Inveterate unpunctuality, and the general absence of a sense of responsibility concerning the value of time, is another indication of shallowness of mind. India and the Indians What he writes is a continual protest against shallowness and mediocrity. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 When he suspected any scholar of shallowness, pettiness, or professorial conceit, he would sometimes burst forth into rage, and use language the severity of which he was himself the first to regret. Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities Moreover, the Nile had, by this time, sunk to such a point of shallowness that navigation was specially slow and even dangerous. The Life of Gordon, Volume II The pool, as I have said, measured about a hundred feet each way, though on account of its shallowness around the edges we could only cut ice over a surface about fifty feet square. The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado Their broadsides bore upon the enemy, and the shallowness of the water was such that by no means could they be surrounded. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 Long experience of what is called "the world," of the folly, duplicity, shallowness, selfishness, which meet us at every turn, too soon unsettles our youthful creed. Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical It is free from the brilliant shallowness of Renan, and the bitterness which sometimes marred the teachings of Parker. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 That which is seen over extensive sandy patches, where, owing to the limpidity and shallowness of the sea, the light of the sky is reflected. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. As he grew older, Irving came to feel the shallowness of fashionable society, but in the Salmagundi days he appears to have asked for nothing better. Washington Irving The shallowness and simplicity of the girl baffled her continually. That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 Lost, yonder, amidst bankless, boundless marsh—soaking in slow shallowness, as it will, hither and thither, listless, among the poisonous reeds and unresisting slime—it is free also. On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature He was to become more expert in the use of materials, but no whit less clever in his expansion of "small talk" and society shallowness. Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The Moth and the Flame He has been accused of shallowness in the orchestral treatment of his operas,—in which noise is often accumulated to conceal want of resource. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 The ships were proceeding northward at the time, along the coast of Asia, but were compelled to return on account of the shallowness of the water. Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries Young and inexperienced as I was, I was so forcibly struck with the shallowness of pretended culture that I have many times told the story to illustrate. Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After Professor Virchow was held up to me in some quarters as a model of philosophic caution, who by his reasonableness reproved my rashness, and by his depth reproved my shallowness. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 And here the depth or shallowness of our theology will be sure to tell. The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 She had always seemed to him so frank, with a sweet, maidenly frankness, so transparent—without shallowness, that he was thrown into despair when she dismissed him. A True Friend A Novel She sat dazed, numbed, with the shallowness of it all—the shale of sham which did not even conceal the base sub-stratum of deceit below. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills The gunboats, as far as they were able, took up the position allotted to them, but from the shallowness of the water, the Starling and Banterer got aground. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 The shoals and sand-banks, and the shallowness of the water within the harbour, made it dangerous for ships of the first and second rates to enter without a leading wind. John Deane of Nottingham Historic Adventures by Land and Sea Yet she reflected that those who knew Kate’s shallowness well, still loved her in spite of it, and always bowed to her wishes. Marcia Schuyler When they is past, an' the calm sets in, 'tis plain shallowness t' use yerself up then. Janet of the Dunes And in spite of its shallowness and paradoxes, his book did contain the one principle on which, if it had been generally accepted, the inevitable transition might have taken place without a Reign of Terror. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. From the shallowness of the water the larger vessels frequently grounded, and on passing Nankin, then in possession of a formidable army of rebels, which attacked them, they had to fight their onward way. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 Earl was more than disturbed by her attitude, for he discovered traits of character and a shallowness of sympathy that shocked him. An American Suffragette But to improve the passage materially, appears to me to be impracticable, from the shallowness of the water, and the rapidity of the current in many of the rivers. The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823. And so far from the sense of the need of repentance being the sign of a diseased mind, the decreasing consciousness of sin in our day may only prove the shallowness of the modern mind. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics She was disgusted with the other girl's utter shallowness. Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore Notwithstanding, Captain Osborn proceeded to attack it with the gunboats Grinder, Boxer, Cracker, and Clinker; but the shallowness of the water would allow them to get only just within range of the batteries. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 It seemed to her that Lucy attached immense importance to so trivial a thing as a mourning veil, yet she could not feel that this was all girlish frivolity and shallowness. Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Tuesday, 23rd.—To-day we advanced very slowly, owing to the shallowness of the water, and crossed a number of portages. Hudson Bay He and a group of friends had long felt indignant at the utilitarianism and shallowness of the work of the schools. The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze The shallowness of the sea between Bahrein and the mainland has contributed considerably to the geographical and mercantile importance of the Bahrein. Southern Arabia On reaching the mouth of the Rusizi, they pushed up it a short distance, but were stopped by its shallowness, it not being navigable for anything but the smallest canoes. Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley How often stenographers are mortified by the use of some unfamiliar word or term, or quotation, because of the shallowness of their preparation! Pushing to the Front Our progress now became a little more interrupted by portages and small lakes, or rather ponds, through which we sometimes passed with difficulty, owing to the shallowness of the water in many places. Hudson Bay This shallowness has no part in Byron himself. Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 3: Byron But it is unfortunately quite impossible to mistake his meaning and intention, for he is a writer whose offensiveness is gross, while it is sometimes almost surpassed by an amazing shallowness. On the Genesis of Species Exuberance of high words no longer conceals the sterility of his ideas and the shallowness of his method. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3) Essay 1: Robespierre He can not know the worth of the country and how to appreciate the glory of its disadvantages and opportunities until he has seen the sham and shallowness of the city. Pushing to the Front Its least mischief is shallowness; its greatest, the aversion to steady labor which it induces, and the low and feeble tone of mind which it encourages. How to Get on in the World A Ladder to Practical Success What a feeling of earnestness and sincerity would it not lend to services now often marred by the shallowness or meretricious glitter of their musical portions? Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. It certainly leads to shallowness, "Without haste, without rest" was Goethe's motto. Girls and Women Such a subject will usually produce either an instant lull in the conversation or a display of ignorance which cannot fail to reveal the shallowness of the speaker's intellect. Plain Facts for Old and Young "I mean that the depth of your intuition is only surpassed by the shallowness of your experience." The Farringdons At that Thorgunna smiled on the one side; but her soul laughed within her at the woman’s shallowness. The Waif Woman There is a kind of breadth that is shallowness; there is a kind of sympathy that has no punch. Modern American Prose Selections It is obvious that the first serious effort to remedy this shallowness will be made by deepening and intensifying the culture of the new fields. The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart It is only too easy to expose their shallowness, and therefore to overlook what was genuine in their feelings. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Abroad they are finding out the absurd shallowness of our professions. The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 Because of the shallowness of the water, everything in Vera Cruz harbor has to be brought ashore in small boats, known as lighters. The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes He was very handsome, very brilliant; but underlying the beauty and the brilliancy of the surface there was shallowness, and selfishness, and falsity. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel The answer is that, with all their contradiction, shallowness, and danger, such ideas fitted the crisis. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 8: France in the Eighteenth Century His ships could not proceed far on account of the shallowness of the water, but by placing his men in the canoas he penetrated to the end of the Gulf. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. The last of the circle was a fair-haired, broad-shouldered lad, who stood apart from the others, big, shy, silent:—but he was earnest amid their shallowness, noble amid their hollowness, and devoted amid their fickleness. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes I shall not say what I think of the shallowness and self-conceit displayed by such an argument. A Candid Examination of Theism But he felt that he must try and plumb the depth or shallowness of the day's interests. The Loom of Youth He knows and he despises with active and immitigable contempt the shallowness and fickleness of the multitude. Shadows of the Stage Occasionally some conservative newspaper or magazine would praise him and his company highly; but he knew the shallowness of all the patter of praise. A Certain Rich Man The only drawback to its being a grand river is its shallowness, and want of adaptation, therefore, to the purpose of navigation. First Impressions of the New World On Two Travellers from the Old in the Autumn of 1858 Dorothy, who, for all the selfish shallowness of that relative, loved her mother, tried to take her hand. The President A novel "This is what Mackenzie says ... in Sinister Street ... fine book ... smashes up everything, shows the shallowness of our education ... this is what he says...." The Loom of Youth The first of these is the shallowness of the river at its mouth, and the extreme rapidity of the current. The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 The shark’s flippers were all bound by the ropes with which the man Nanaue had been bound, and this with the shallowness of the water prevented him from exerting his great strength to advantage. Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends Yet there were many men whom Arianism suited by its shallowness. The Arian Controversy Shallowness provokes shallowness, levity, lightness, inconsequence—all are answered by their own echo.... The Danger Mark And yet, with all this apparent shallowness, the age was earnest enough in its way. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country The shallowness of the official decree was vividly brought home to us when we were forcibly confined to barracks, and this frequently occurred while the ambassadorial visitor was in the camp. Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Even this, however, was encouragement, proving the shallowness of the stream. Molly McDonald A Tale of the Old Frontier The crater-pit, however, has well-marked peculiarities which distinguish it from all other types, such as the absence of a distinguishable rim and extreme shallowness. The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features She could not fathom his depth, nor determine his shallowness—she did not even guess which it might be. The Title Market The absence of a sense of humor betokens shallowness in that it reveals an inability to feel deeply. The Vitalized School Giuseppi, as convinced as Matteo of the shallowness of the water, stepped into it, but was surprised to find that, before he had gone many paces, the water was up to his waist. The Lion of Saint Mark A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century A good continued speech, without a good speech of interlocution, shows slowness; and a good reply, or second speech, without a good settled speech, showeth shallowness and weakness. Talks on Talking Owing to their shallowness, they are very evanescent, and can only be glimpsed for an hour or so about sunrise or sunset. The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features Gluck himself was badly bitten, in spite of his hatred of shams and shallowness, with the pretenses of the time, which professed to dote on nature and simplicity. The Great German Composers Was he blind, that he could not penetrate her shallowness, and see the small selfishness of her nature? The Second Honeymoon But as time sped on they began to grow weary of the show, pomp and shallowness of external life. Within the Temple of Isis So the first thing for you to do is to resolve to be "mother's own boy," as the sneering tongue of shallowness puts it, just as long as you possibly can. The Young Man and the World The same shallowness of temper, the same showiness and falsehood, ran through his personal character. History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 The habit of recognising the label and overlooking the thing, of seeing intellectually instead of seeing emotionally, accounts for the amazing blindness, or rather visual shallowness, of most civilised adults. Art While many a mother sees her own youthful shallowness, frivolity, untruthfulness, deceit and parsimony in her daughter, for whose morality and religion she would willingly give up her own soul. Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents The world is beginning to get tired of the mechanism and shallowness of our age, and is once more on the point of turning to the spiritual fountains of life. An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy Some think that the peculiar form of it may be plainly accounted for from the shallowness and shelving of the beach. The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants The practice of giving text-books for it encourages cram, and its width allows of shallowness; but, to counteract this, distinction in any particular subject is very highly marked. Town Life in Australia In a very able speech Advocate Gardiner pointed out the shallowness of the accusations against me. In the Shadow of Death Something that reminded of her old longings and hindrances; of the shallowness and half-living that had been about her, and the chafe of her discontent in it. The Other Girls Does the reading of magazines contribute to intellectual shallowness? The Art of Public Speaking Wallace rivalled Balfe in the facility and shallowness of his melody. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. The shallowness and often halting pace of these discourses is doubtless due, in large measure, to the colonial love of extempore preaching. Town Life in Australia All this caused a shallowness of the debate, a shallowness that fed on itself. Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy Chateaubriand was not a close reasoner; his knowledge was superficial and inaccurate; his character was weakened by vanity and shallowness. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century We were obliged by the shallowness of the stream, to drag along our canoes, walking on a bottom or beach of sand, where we began to feel the importunity of the mosquitoes. Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific Here he was, alone and unknown,—a bashful boy as yet, utterly wanting in that ready audacity by means of which persons of extreme shallowness often push themselves into notice. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 There lies the root of the shallowness of so much that calls itself Christianity in the world to-day. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII Then these maxims began to be applied, sometimes timidly and sometimes in scorn and shallowness, to the sacred history and literature as well. An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant He has learned nothing from the far greater number of them than a full certainty of their shallowness, levity, pride, petulance, presumption, and ignorance. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) No doubt there are always art and science, infinite in their possibilities for joy and enlightenment, infinite also, as we know, in their possibilities of mischief and shallowness and boredom. Little Essays of Love and Virtue The very origin of Affghan royalty fathoms the shallowness of the water on which it floated. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 As a whole, it leaves an impression of hardness, shallowness, and levity. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century It has been the chief task of our whole discussion to prove the shallowness of such arguments and objections. The Photoplay A Psychological Study The passage of the Little River was effected with much toil and difficulty, from the shallowness of the water. Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume I. And yet who does not feel the greatness of Napoleon?—and who does not suspect the shallowness of Mr. Lloyd George? The Mirrors of Downing Street Some Political Reflections by a Gentleman with a Duster To the careless there was nothing startling in this moral numbness, but the more sensitive among us grieved over it, and were humiliated by the shallowness that had come into our lives. On Commando The result of this is seen in the rawness, shallowness and ignorance which characterize the attitude of many young adults to religion. The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day It was the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, coinciding as they did with a period of philosophic activity, that revealed the shallowness and empirical nature of all that had been done up to that time. Some Principles of Maritime Strategy To him all clearness of expression was shallowness of thought, and brightness was the essence of frivolity. The Colossus A Novel His wonderful powers of succinct statement may perhaps give the impression of shallowness; but this is an entirely false impression—no impression could indeed be wider of the mark. Painted Windows Studies in Religious Personality Few things excite more suspicion than a good style, and no theory is more plausible than that which associates clearness of expression with shallowness of thought. The Life of Froude After what must have been a most usual intellectual cycle of, first, helplessness, then conventional cataloguing, some rationalizing, some moralizing, and an extensive feeling of shallowness and inferiority, I called the job done. An American Idyll The Life of Carleton H. Parker He felt her sincerity of purpose at the same instant that he felt Gerty's shallowness and the artificial glamour of the hot-house air in which he had hardly drawn breath. The Wheel of Life Such men I would blame for their shallowness of mind . Philo-Judaeus of Alexandria Still, as usual, his speech chiefly directed to his former Brethren who sit attentive, thinking occasionally with regret of the fatal shallowness of the pit, and the absence of arrangement for hermetically sealing it. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 4, 1892 It does mean depth as opposed to shallowness, bigness as opposed to littleness, and vision as opposed to spiritual myopia. The Reconstructed School "IN A YEAR" is a wondering and sorrowful little comment on a man's shallowness and inconstancy. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) The buffoonery—in the sense of shallowness and emptiness—was really in the speech that everybody took to be grave. Sketches in the House (1893) It would be a great mistake that would suppose the man who has thus multiplied the objects of his exertion to be of necessity superficial; superficial, that is, in the sense of shallowness or ignorance. International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 Let me tell thee how wittily one did mock the shallowness of this sort of arrogance. The Consolation of Philosophy It is, in fact, a self-revelation—the vain and audacious betrayal by an Oriental woman of the narrowness, the shallowness, the dishonesty which ages of false education have fastened upon her race. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 It was really the part of shallowness to ignore those extrahuman relations and account for the unforeseen by attributing to fate the more than inexplicable. Là-bas He has infinitely wider and larger resources than Mr. Chamberlain, who, nevertheless, excels in the alertness which is often the accompaniment of shallowness. Sketches in the House (1893) It was merely bred of the lady's shallowness, and of her utterly self-centered existence. Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper There are not wanting those who see through the shallowness of such views and who vigorously oppose and condemn such narrow patriotism. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic He held up the image of its corruption, shallowness and false refinement, and that of a life of simple manners and unperverted instincts. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 It is not surprising that feeling for Nature shewed a corresponding shallowness and lassitude. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times Finally, the speech also had the narrowness, shallowness, and unreality of the hermit's soliloquy. Sketches in the House (1893) The shallowness of water on the bar was a great disadvantage, as ships drawing more than twelve feet were unable to enter. Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life They have no good harbours in all their coast; even Amsterdam is difficult of approach, from the dangerous entrance of the Texel, and the shallowness of the Zuider Zee. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels - Volume 18 Historical Sketch of the Progress of Discovery, Navigation, and Commerce, from the Earliest Records to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century, By William Stevenson Perhaps people are perfectly right when they say that woman's shallowness rests on her very vocation. Love In a country where scarcely a village is found That has not its author sublime and profound, For some one to be slightly shallow's a duty, And Willis's shallowness makes half his beauty. The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell They are fitted for the shallowness of the river, which in many places is full of great stones which greatly obstruct the navigation. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 This coast is barren and most of it desert, and cannot be approached on account of the shallowness of the sea near the shore. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 06 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Had a man made this speech they would have mistrusted him, but as women have a reputation for shallowness, such talk is never thought suspicious in them. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 Their practical result was that the consciousness of the shallowness and worthlessness of my aim in life became more vivid than ever. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 10 Prince Otto Von Bismarck, Count Helmuth Von Moltke, Ferdinand Lassalle In spite, therefore, of the shallowness and narrowness of the upper river there always existed this impediment which an insecure soil would present to the formation of any considerable settlements. The Historic Thames It is free from certain lacks that one feels in other works, with all their charm,—a shallowness and almost frivolity; a facility of theme approaching the commonplace. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies Your laments over the general shallowness, thoughtlessness, and superficiality, over self-conceit and inexhaustible babble, over the contempt for seriousness and profundity in all classes, may be true, even as they actually are. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English And she knew that a facility in making pretty speeches is in nine cases out of ten merely the refuge of those who desire to conceal indifference or shallowness of heart. The Rising of the Red Man A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion We cannot, therefore, assent to the opinion held by many, that popularity is an evidence of shallowness or ill-desert. Famous Americans of Recent Times He took up the ground that things are what they are in themselves, and was incapable of grasping the idea that greatness and littleness, depth and shallowness, are relative things. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862 On ascending as far inland as sixty or seventy miles, the English approached an island, and their progress in the larger canoe was effectually obstructed by the shallowness of the stream. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa Perhaps this is an excuse for the shallowness of some of the product, especially of the fiction; at any rate, the attempt at dissemination was not without its success. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English Lost, presently, amidst bankless, boundless marsh —soaking in slow shallowness, as it will, hither and thither, listless among the poisonous reeds and unresisting slime—it is free also. The Queen of the Air Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm Accordingly, he finds a shallowness in the pseudo-classicism of Pope and his contemporaries, and turns rather to Sophocles on the one hand and Goethe on the other for his exemplars. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold The tendency of modern life and of our active American temperament is towards a too exclusive functioning of the mind in its outgoing state, and this results in a great cleverness and a great shallowness. Architecture and Democracy It is the shallowness, not the sex, which arouses him. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) On the contrary, in choosing His leaders God had purposely chosen those reckoned by the world's standards foolish that He might show plainly the shallowness of what they deem wise. Quiet Talks on Service "Clearness and shallowness most often go together," he observed. Miriam Monfort A Novel It has triple belfry windows, and a spired stair turret, but the shallowness of the buttresses detracts from its impressiveness. Somerset |
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