Examples of superficiality

• Since the late nineteenth century, when the expression 'master of none' became attached, the phrase has commonly been associated with disparagement and superficiality.

• The affectation of this transgressive coloratura insinuates a common superficiality linking the traditionally alien genres of opera and techno-disco.

• The psychoanalytic establishment, presumably concerned about superficiality, has on the whole ignored these experiments.

• That this is traceable to the conditions of modern life - its instabilities and superficiality, its elevation of consumption over sturdy production - is a commonplace.

• Such simplistic formulations add little to the analysis, and leave an impression of haste and superficiality.

• Similar degrees of superficiality occur throughout the text.

• There is always the danger of superficiality in the latter approach.

• In other words, the superficiality of his reform programme is to some extent predictable.