Unequal wealth, of course, loses its superficiality to the degree that it defines politics in a democracy.

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When painting royals and nobility, Zoffany only occasionally got beyond the superficiality of his subjects' clothes and settings.

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Another may marvel at the superficiality of popular proposals to deal with it.

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Recognize the superficiality implied by those words and by our impatient, thoughtless world.

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Bowie turned pop art into post modernism, where superficiality and altered images were designed to question the certainty of past generations.

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Bonnie Steinbock, professor of philosophy who specializes in bioethics at the University at Albany in New York, said it magnifies the superficiality in society.

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In its variety, its superficiality, its solitary night walkers and its jumbled juxtaposition of public and private spaces, you could argue that it is the beating heart of Englishness.

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And this, the age of the de-evolution of meaning, we're ironically working toward a deeper superficiality, not only to combat the short attention spans of young people, but to hook the wiser.

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Unfortunately, the Internet offered such an intoxicating sense of liberation from liberal cant, corporate dominion and plain old superficiality to many on the right and the left--constituencies that were often the most intellectually exercised about the state of journalism--that each seemed to treat new media as a new way of doing politics.

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