But to call Mr. Rubio, in effect, a pretty face uses superficiality to attack superficiality.
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This superficiality is, of course, part of a systemic problem.
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The science of superficiality is, however, always fun to study.
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Why isn't the artificiality and superficiality of your pictures sad?
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Yes. I think the superficiality is part of the problem.
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Now you have gone rubber band back right to superficiality.
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She embraced vapid superficiality as an aesthetic, and people loved it.
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What is Shelley saying about human nature and prejudice or superficiality?
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Her words and works, to their core, resist superficiality and simplification.
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Despite its superficiality and myriad shortcomings, Facebook's War Room was a start.
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CON It has the slick superficiality of a Shonda Rhimes factory product.
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Is the superficiality of Instagay culture really something they should look up to?
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The media feeds on superficiality, that's just the reality we have to face.
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" Mr. Indiana himself called it "a comment on the superficiality of American life.
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All of this will help convey the overarching superficiality of the Biden campaign.
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It's hard to ignore the gratuitous excess, the worrisome superficiality, the aqueous extravagance.
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He's the skin-deep one, the throwaway one, the very epitome of superficiality.
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The superficiality, the branding — that was part of their project from the start.
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One that increasingly rings trite, and opens fashion up to legitimate charges of superficiality.
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Some critics have considered this indicative of the supposed increasing superficiality of contemporary culture.
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Instead of trying to deny our innate superficiality, maybe we should try to embrace it.
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Aden, who is both lesbian and Muslim, scoffs at what she sees as Scarlet's superficiality.
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Superficiality can be inherent in any visual medium, but it's television news's stock in trade.
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Her performance symbolises all that is wrong with the film – it values superficiality over substance.
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Strung together, Dowd's columns reflect the superficiality of the campaign, and the coverage of it.
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As Greg Sargent has noted, the deeper problem with this line of criticism is its superficiality.
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The terrain of Alam's novel may seem familiar, but superficiality is its subject, not its method.
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Comments in local online forums say the plate frenzy encourages narcissism and superficiality in Gulf society.
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But the show is laying groundwork, and the seeming superficiality is part of a bigger plan.
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At last, I thought, a book that indulges my superficiality without wasting any words on it.
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All the stuff about appearance and superficiality and a real glorification of wealth for its own sake.
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The Iraq trip was a prime example of the superficiality of how this president sees the military.
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The series was essentially a testament to superficiality, snapping people while they were peacocking and posturing and preening.
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Along the way, the group has attracted criticism for being "childlike in their superficiality," to quote LA Weekly.
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But the concept of diversity is still a superficiality in their eyes—an aesthetic rather than something meaningful.
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Superficiality may reign supreme in the Beltway, but that does not mean that the rest of us should care.
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I'm eager to see what she'll do, under Daniel Aukin's direction, with this story about the pitfalls of superficiality.
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And despite the social barriers she faced as a result of others' superficiality, she never felt bad for herself.
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Another common complaint is parents who felt that makeup was tantamount to superficiality, not something smart people ought to enjoy.
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She added that what frightened her most was the "indifference, superficiality and ignorance" that allowed fascist ideologies to take root.
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Like those shows, it deals with the sense of aimless superficiality one often gets swept up in while searching for adulthood.
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Roberts is giving attention to a youth culture often chastised for superficiality and appealing to them directly with affirmation and intrigue.
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Fittingly for a discussion that touched upon the superficiality of media, we are publishing the transcript with only the lightest of edits.
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Of course, while it was pretty far near the bottom, "The Swan" was in good company when it came to bald-faced superficiality.
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Her ability to juggle both big brands and big social issues could help change conventional wisdom about the superficiality of the style set.
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The early stories, with their opera-buffa plots, capture the superficiality, venality, and laziness of the upper crust of nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro .
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Related: An Artist Opened A Fictional Juice Bar in Berlin Startup Troll Exposes Art World Superficiality via Twitter Public Art Rules the Marrakech Biennale
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In the past, Neal Medlyn has mined the universe of pop stars, like Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus, to comment on things like superficiality.
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To begin with, it elevates superficiality, speed and the image — all youthful preoccupations — over depth, deliberation and text, which we associate with mature adults.
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That the soldiers would break and scatter to save their own hides reveals the superficiality of the support that the president has around him.
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"He's ripped, he has the beautiful tan skin, blond hair, blue eyes…" Well, nice to hear the Healers are about more than just mere superficiality.
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I find it perplexing that precisely on the issues I hold dearest and most essential, many people insist on reducing my views to such superficiality.
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Cheerfully cynical yet with a sincere appetite for the game, "The Circus" is both a document and an example of the superficiality of today's elections.
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I look forward to reading someone's nuclear-hot take on how this says something about millennials or young women or our collective superficiality or something.
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The swimsuit reflects the underbelly of society: It privileges superficiality, has been used to police cultures and values increasingly irrelevant norms of gender and sexuality.
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Those well-meaning preancées (and preancés, for that matter) aside, it's the superficiality of the proposal shape quest that can get one's athleisure in a wad.
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The superficiality of white knowledge of black life — that glancing, barely there "interest" beyond broadly drawn strokes of caricature — is laid bare in these bad hairpieces.
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But the superficiality of the project itself was its biggest flaw—a flaw that would still be present even if American Dirt were a very different novel.
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Instead, its coverage was by far the most egregious of the time — set apart first by the sheer volume, and second by its unremitting enthusiasm and superficiality.
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TikTok is the fastest-growing social media app globally, and is popular with young people put off by weird YouTube drama and the controlled superficiality of Instagram.
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He'll never be deep, because of his TV-shaped attention span, but the style of his superficiality is likely to change radically over the next few years.
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What Republicans who are not so frustrated as to buy into the malarkey and superficiality of Trump or the demagoguery of Cruz want most is a winner.
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"For many, defining oneself as sapiosexual has become statement against the current status quo of hookup culture and superficiality, where looks are prized above all else," Tynski said.
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Related: Mark Flood Trolls the Art World with 4chan Filth and Disgusting Memes Mark Flood Is Over the Art World Startup Troll Exposes Art World Superficiality via Twitter
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Drawing parallels between the unapologetic decadence of the period and the indulgent superficiality of the contemporary present, Bas asks us to consider how and why clichés are born.
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As usual, the crassness of Hollywood—er, sorry, Hollywoo—is the main object of the show's friendly ribbing, but this time it also tackles the superficiality of politics.
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Later, in a 2015 opinion piece for the New York Times, Finkel argued that Tinder's superficiality actually made it better than all the other so-called matchmaking apps.
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"Journey" shares that genre's tendency toward superficiality and obviousness — only the most devout fan won't tire of being told repeatedly what a brilliant singer and dancer Michael Jackson was.
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It's a way for infosec professionals to recognize the ruthless superficiality and unscrupulousness of the marketplace while still sharing the goal of protecting the systems on which we depend.
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In one painting, two sisters stare into a mirror, while their reflections gaze at the viewer, capturing both the strength of their gaze and the strange superficiality of fashion.
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The superficiality of the story I could excuse if it didn't rely so strongly on using the real world as set dressing for its paramilitary dress-up-doll fantasy.
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And I am the first to say that many of these wounds are self-inflicted, the product of too many years of bias, sensationalism, superficiality, elitism, mistakes and misjudgments.
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This light-hearted feeling is typified by Lil Pump, a human ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ whose self-referential phrase "I'm just ignorant" conveys an eye-rolling don't care attitude of knowing superficiality.
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In the film, the director Sidney Lumet coaxed performances of natural surrealism from his cast, suggesting how its characters were all shaped and warped by an industry's cutthroat superficiality.
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The art-fashion-branding collective were given free reign to fill the museum with 20-plus projects and the result was a characteristically uncanny blend of superficiality and substance.
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I suspect Simons was frustrated by the superficiality of fashion — his attraction began when he saw that Margiela show and witnessed fashion as something emotional, something deeper than mere appearance.
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And despite gorgeous interiors and impressive backdrops, the show as a whole doesn't have the sweep or grandeur that would let you overlook the glibness and superficiality of the script.
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Despite its richly deserved reputation for superficiality, Los Angeles is indeed a reading town, but with a uniquely transactional relationship to books, especially those that are remnants of bygone eras.
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And that impression of the city as this vapid but very real place, where the people who succeed have learned to manipulate its superficiality, has stuck with me ever since.
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This was Vermont in the seventies, and people everywhere discussed depth and superficiality, fate, luck, and the fluctuations of the moods, all in a vocabulary that Joni Mitchell had helped devise.
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Mehle (pronounced MAY-lee) admitted to indulging in trivia and superficiality, but was unapologetic about her professed mission: to add some spice to the quotidian lives of her millions of readers.
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It is precisely the superficiality of talking about the weather — of something so common, so pedestrian — that, contra Wilde, makes it a blank canvas upon which talented people can work wonders.
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The upper-class catgirl Stella, for example, is a highly intelligent and empathetic woman who regularly visits the bar in order to escape the superficiality of the city's uptown shopping centers.
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This is the ladder-climber, the hanger-on, the courtier, though he possessed a deeply felt ambition that would one day justify the intense superficiality of his existence as a young man.
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In an international art world whose mainstream institutions and market celebrate cynicism and superficiality, and are fueled by ego and hype, the bell tolls for Dial today more softly than it should.
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"Sleep" is rife with the hallmarks of Mr. Richter's style: a clarity that can seem like superficiality; an earnestness and emotionality that often come off as more ersatz and manipulative than personal.
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Those weaknesses included an intellectual superficiality and a passion for political declamation — "magpie sermonizing," as Spitz calls it — that often rendered him boring to others, particularly his first wife, the actress Jane Wyman.
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Those big build and drops, the "sample anything" style, the idea that this was main stage material, and even their perceived superficiality were all laid out by the big beat DJs and producers.
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There is nothing wrong with this, or with thinking about this; it doesn't reveal a superficiality or lack of substance, which is often the default fear when the topic of clothing comes up.
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None of those technologies improve your life quite as much as a design that plays into our crudest superficiality; I stare at my phone all goddamn day—I want to look at something pretty.
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The martians represent the campiness and superficiality that is always present underneath the solemnity of movies like Independence Day and The Towering Inferno, revealing what's underneath isn't truth and revelation but trash and crap.
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The series comments on the superficiality of modern politics, but in a way that's colorful and cartoonish, with a broadly comic take on privilege and popularity, not bogged down by wonky real-world details.
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But most profoundly of all we've created a dating culture of superficiality, the endless need to upgrade partners and either abundant empty dates with people we've nothing in common or empty calendars and crushed egos.
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"It's the opposite of the superficiality you usually see in television casting in that we aren't necessarily choosing people with the biggest personalities," said Richard McKerrow, a founder of Love Productions, which produces the show.
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Lifetime churns out a lot of movies, and many of them exhibit an assembly-line superficiality, but this tale of a teenager's long struggle to overcome a slut-shaming incident is delicately told and acted.
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PBS ran a remarkably nonpartisan editorial, "The problem with thinking you know more than the experts," which blamed the rejection of expertise not just on the superficiality of Google searches but our feel-good culture too.
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Mr Young, who supports Bernie Sanders for president, has complained about Mr Trump's use of "Free World," writing recently on Facebook that he cannot "endorse hate, bigotry, childish name calling, the superficiality of celebrity or ignorance".
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Now it's time to savor another season of heart-wrenching — but also humorous — meditations on depression, addiction, Hollywood superficiality and whether it's possible for people (or horses who walk on two legs like people) to change.
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Though she abandoned painting after an instructor reportedly called her work "the essence of superficiality," she wrote in her 1984 autobiography, "The Photographer's Scrapbook," that much of her success as a photographer was thanks to her training.
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Critical of the superficiality and readability of Time Teletext's news coverage, early users in San Diego and Orlando were drawn instead to an entirely new source of entertainment that had, before Teletext, barely penetrated the suburban living room.
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" Befitting the "postliteracy of the late capitalist world," the culture of postmodernism would be characterized by "a new kind of flatness or depthlessness, a new kind of superficiality in the most literal sense" where "depth is replaced by surface.
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This anecdote has surfaced repeatedly in stories about Ivanka's role in the Trump White House, and it's been typically used to highlight her naïveté, her inexperience with politics and the superficiality of her attempts to smooth her father's edges.
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To make up for this so-called superficiality, Time Teletext's reporters in turns worked the "Lobster shift," churning out headlines day and night for their meager test audience before skulking home in a cab at four in the morning.
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On Instagram, she took to posting photos that were designed to indicate a stylish transition from gaudy New York woman to sophisticated glam — using a platform that has the power to reincarnate people through the sublime superficiality of fashion.
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If a good-looking actor portraying a murderer known for flaunting his good looks is offensive -- the inference being that superficiality is offensive -- we would do well to be less superficial in our assessment of these films and their subject matter.
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Because of the massive amounts of prejudicial publicity, the trial had been moved from suburban Rowlett to Kerrville, a conservative Hill Country town where Routier's rather routine suburban life was more easily portrayed as an "outsider" tale of glitzy spending and suspicious superficiality.
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To understand, we have to take a look at Banksy's history of subversive, highly politicized artwork, which is often accompanied by pointed stunts — many of them conceived to undermine power structures and call attention to the superficiality of the world we live in.
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Because I know many people are going to look at my headline, read the first paragraph (if I'm lucky), and then head to the comment section to tell me how I'm making women feel bad about themselves and setting back womankind with my superficiality.
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Often, when I think how much of my time I've devoted to my own appearance or to matters of aesthetics I cringe, though I've often been the person in any given room defending things like style and design from accusations of superficiality and frivolity.
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Teva Alon, Bergen County Academies, Cresskill, N.J.: "The American Dream" by Edward Albee and "Welcome to the Era of the Post-Shopping Mall" This year, we read "The American Dream," a satirical play by Edward Albee that explores the materialism and superficiality of American society.
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At the same time, by making an attempt to match people based on how compatible their personality types are — I'm told that there is a lot more going on under the hood than is being surfaced — DatePlay wants to avoid the superficiality of apps like Tinder.
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It's probably no coincidence that peak fascination with apocalyptic epidemic hit alongside a period of peak superficiality—our obsession with appearance and celebrity, our narcissism, is maybe one reason we all sort of feel like we deserve to get wiped out by zombies or a massive plague.
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Her readers, however, do not mount a defense based on the quality of Kaur's language; rather, they cite her openness about personal trauma in response to critiques of her work, suggesting that such honesty, particularly from a woman of color, exempts her from accusations of superficiality.
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One reason may be that the leadership genre harbors a built-in bias toward producing user-friendly general rules or — in the glib jargon of the trade — "takeaways," which not only tend toward superficiality but also obscure the rich particularity that historians (and readers of history) prize.
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Just when "Our Young Man" seems about to drown in its own superficiality — a heady mix of name-dropping, dieting strategies and drug binges — it becomes an oddly poignant contemplation of what it's like to live "way past" your shelf life and make choices that don't quite match your insouciant appearance.
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From the use of soma as a kind of happiness drug to the erasure of the past not so much as a threat to government, as is the case in Orwell's dystopia, but as simply irrelevant ("History is bunk"), Huxley marked out amusement and superficiality as the buttons that control behavior.
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Some of the most vociferous critics of that article—as well as the annual calendar of gay megaparties like the Black Party, known collectively as "the Circuit"—have been gay men, who are convinced that these celebrate the worst aspects of the gay world, such as overt drug use, promiscuous sex, and superficiality.
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Cohen is a problematic character though, one prone to the gaslighting of women, like with his on-and-off-and-on-again relationship with Summer Roberts, and he is selfish in a way that we can forgive him for slightly because he was an only child in the wasteland of superficiality that Orange County was portrayed as.
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In 2014, her crackling debut American Middle Class socked it to the establishment in no uncertain terms, tackling Music Row's superficiality and industry sexism even as she laid bare the wretched costs of America's opioid crisis in "Pain Pills," a heartbreaking ode to those trapped in the jaws of addiction back home in her corner of Kentucky.
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Coy's story is especially weak when compared with the story of Monroe, which runs right under the surface of the book — the story of a girl whose body angrily and violently rejects her right at the beginning of adolescence, a girl who based her identity on the idea that she hated superficiality and now finds the world calling her bluff.
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Its focus on the use of color during a decade marked by Clement Greenberg's advocacy of the reflexive flatness of Color Field painting, which ultimately led to the dematerialization of the object, would seem to invite every manner of curatorial crisis, from academicism to superficiality to solipsism, and Breslin did state in his opening remarks from the podium that the show could have easily tumbled into disaster.
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But there is a lot of fluidity, hybridity, intersectionality and transgression on display here too, that, in the Balkan context, criticizes both the callousness of the Soviet regime that once dominated the region (during the Cold War, most of the countries in the Balkans were ruled by Soviet-supported communist governments), and the superficiality of American materialism and its cultural pop desolation that awaited it.
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Silver, let's not forget, launched his career as a political forecaster in 2007 under the pen name "poblano," and as devilishly subversive as it no doubt was for a nerdy white boy to hide behind the pseudonymous cover of a foodstuff that brown people eat (this guy!), perhaps the signs were always there of a basic superficiality in the worldview of this, red flag incoming, University of Chicago economics major.
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Opinion Columnist President Trump has been all over the place on Iran, which is what happens when you take a serious subject, treat it with farcical superficiality, believe braggadocio will sway a proud and ancient civilization, approach foreign policy like a real estate deal, defer to advisers with Iran Derangement Syndrome, refuse to read any briefing papers and confuse the American national interest with the Saudi or Israeli.
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Giving zero fucks about appearing "ladylike" (and expertly handling a chicken drumstick): Bucking expectations of feminine propriety and getting comfortable with her own bosom: Helping others get comfortable with the female form in a non-sexualized way: Skewering the superficiality of the objectifying male gaze — in all its teenage, testosterone-soaked glory — by embodying it all too well: And not least of all, understanding the insidious, 100% historically accurate origins of painful stilettos: God bless, Amanda Bynes, and thank you for making a movie that will never fail to make me laugh.
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