0 not carefully considered or strongly felt:
After the first half-hour she realized that her new-found confidence was no more than skin-deep.
1 powerful or strong only in appearance:
Her confidence was only skin-deep.
Such interpretations beg the question of why ' skin-deep ' attitudes would prompt behavior as visceral as a pogrom.
The bottom line here is that consensus on how to model applications and structure a reuse-centred development process is still skin-deep.
If his so-called liberalism is more than skin-deep, he should reverse this decision immediately in the name of good democracy.
I wonder whether many people outside will regard the remarks as more than skin-deep.
That policy is skin-deep and it is already cracking under the impact of events.
That is the skin-deep nature of our democracy.
Their belief in democracy is clearly skin-deep.
So his conversion is sometimes only skin-deep.