LORD ILLINGWORTH. People nowadays are so absolutely superficial that they don't understand the philosophy of the superficial. By the way, Gerald, you should learn how to tie your tie better. Sentiment is all very well for the button-hole. But the essential thing for a necktie is style. A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.英文原著 · 《A Woman of No Importance》
-- 113. superficial truth: phenomenal, relative truth; that which is arrived at through the senses, and belongs to the domain of the "what Knows". Essential, absolute truth can be known only through a response thereto of the essential, the absolute, the "what Is", in man's nature. John has attained to a measure of absolute truth, and smiles on reverting to the very superficial truth of things.英文原著 · 《Introduction to Robert Browning》
Pretends that dress is superficial but knows that it isn't. 3.Goes into such activities as he can shine in. 4.Gets to college and is, in a worldly way, successful. 5.Hair slicked. "THE BIG MAN"
1.Inclined to stupidity and unconscious of social values. 2.Thinks dress is superficial, and is inclined to be careless about it. 3.Goes out for everything from a sense of duty. 4.Gets to college and has a problematical future.英文原著 · 《This Side of Paradise》
Newer formation with volcanic rocks. Travertin with leaves of extinct plants. Elevation of the land. New Zealand. King George's Sound. Superficial ferruginous beds. Superficial calcareous deposits, with casts of branches. Their origin from drifted particles of shells and corals.英文原著 · 《Volcanic Islands》
I had a friend about my own age, and between us there was something very much like what is called a "school-girl friendship," a kind of intimacy supposed to be superficial, but often as deep and permanent as it is pleasant.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
The dramatic style does not prevail at most important points of the Scripture, because it is a fictitious style for the presenting of truth. It inevitably suggests superficiality. Things actually do not happen in life as they do in drama.英文原著 · 《A Study of Bible》
Andre feels "Until we shed our inhibitions, our art will be only superficial." Anyway, for our next class, we have to paint in the nude.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
Y'know, I know it's totally superficial and we have absolutely nothing in common, ...and we don't even speak the same language...美剧 · 《Friends》