How to Use superficiality in a Sentence

superficiality

noun

• But there was a superficiality about the nightclub scene that the young performer couldn't abide.
  — Jarvis Deberry, NOLA.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Lost and alone in a crowd, Gordy confesses to Oliver that he’s turned off by the superficiality and noisiness of the scene.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2019
• For them, meeting in a game sidestepped the superficiality that can come with the beginning stages of dating, Rain says.
  — Elizabeth Landau, Wired, 1 Dec. 2020
• But the show is laying groundwork, and the seeming superficiality is part of a bigger plan.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2019
• That superficiality feels part and parcel with the series as a whole.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Apr. 2022
• Amid the sweat and superficiality of the first Coachella since 2019, the most maligned concert format felt vital again.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2022
• Both her greed and her superficiality run counter to her sixties credo.
  — Sophia Nguyen, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2021
• To address these concerns, S’More has developed a suite of features aimed to reduce the superficiality of online dating, and slow down the process.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• This superficiality is, of course, part of a systemic problem.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 Feb. 2020
• The costumes were part of a performance-art piece about the perils of pleasure-seeking and superficiality, which, again, has been his theme since his earliest mixtapes.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2021
• And in an era of righteous certainty and flamboyant superficiality, what sets this special most against the grain is its commitment to doubt.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
• People walk on eggshells and talk about superficialities, rather than about what is really happening in their lives.
  — Elizabeth Bernstein, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2018
• The importance of knowing the details of your Chanel bag goes beyond superficiality.
  — Kyle Stiansen, Teen Vogue, 19 Oct. 2017
• Each boxer came to represent something different in the 1980s, a flimsy decade where superficiality was the core.
  — Mike Freeman, USA TODAY, 25 May 2021
• So the series cracks open the superficiality of this binary, laying bare the moral sacrifices everyone makes in the wake of revolution.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 23 Nov. 2022
• He’s lost his soul and any real human connection with anyone around him, spiraling in a pitiless void of superficiality and obscene wealth.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2021
• One of our intrepid investigators turns out to be a huge fan of the series and uses his or her canonical knowledge to help solve the crime, amidst all sorts of winking and nudging about Hollywood superficiality and egos.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017
• Mary Babers-Green doesn’t care too much for the commercialization of motherhood, nor the superficiality holidays bring.
  — Marcus Thompson Ii, The Mercury News, 14 May 2017
• But Boushie’s death points to an irony, hypocrisy, and superficiality of reconciliation, because the Canadian state is complicit in Boushie’s death.
  — Lindsay Nixon, Teen Vogue, 14 Feb. 2018
• The indifference to characters as sentient beings rather than pawns in a plot emerges in a twist that’s a long-standing marker of action-film superficiality: apocalyptic chaos.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2022
• For better or worse, this evolutionary feature has led us to our modern day superficiality.
  — Jeff Stibel, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2017
• Blithe, distracted superficiality is what social media does best, and the sparkly realms Kusama began building in 1965 as deeply personal refuge now seem to serve mostly as backdrops to a narcissistic, look-at-me world.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2019
• Both stunts signal Branagh’s lack of imagination — and worse, his superficiality.
  — Armond White, National Review, 19 Nov. 2021
• But in trying to avoid that fate—and in trying, generally, to act like a regular person online—users push the conversation toward conflict and superficiality.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2020
• As that title suggests, blonds have favorable stereotypes attached to them, which makes poking fun at their intelligence, as well as their superficiality, a little more palatable.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• The film also earned three Oscar nominations, for Weir, Niccol, and Harris—perhaps a surprising outcome for a movie that so baldly attacks the superficiality of its own industry.
  — Julie Miller, HWD, 5 June 2018
• Her words and works, to their core, resist superficiality and simplification.
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 29 Dec. 2019
• In the film La grande bellezza, director Paolo Sorrentino shows us a two-faced twenty-first century Rome: the lingering beauty of its ancient past and the superficiality of its upper-class residents today.
  — Hazlitt, 22 Mar. 2023
• The insiderly conflation of theater-world superficiality and the depths of institutionalized evil can feel forced and gimmicky, though.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2017
• Conversation—the kind that's genuine and vulnerable, that penetrates past pleasantries and superficiality—was of the upmost importance.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024