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  • noun Plural form of superficial.

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Examples

  • Michael though, was sadly hung up on the superficials.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • Michael though, was sadly hung up on the superficials.

    The Curious Case Of Michael Joseph Jackson 2009

  • Tony Stark shares some similarities with Bruce Wayne (both millionaire playboys with toys, both have snide butlers Alfred and the AI Jarvis, and both butlers even make quips about their employers '"subtle" taste in sports cars), but the films really have nothing in common beyond these superficials.

    Whereas Iron Man Was Right on the Money Lou Anders 2008

  • Tony Stark shares some similarities with Bruce Wayne (both millionaire playboys with toys, both have snide butlers Alfred and the AI Jarvis, and both butlers even make quips about their employers '"subtle" taste in sports cars), but the films really have nothing in common beyond these superficials.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Lou Anders 2008

  • It's important for people to try to sift through those superficials.

    The Book on John Kerry 2008

  • That the attribution of characteristics to strangers based on superficials like skin is something that only "white" people do.

    "An aide to John McCain was suspended from the campaign today for blasting out an inflammatory video...." Ann Althouse 2008

  • And one of Kotchka's first acts was to embed top designers in brand teams to help rethink not just the superficials -- graphics, packaging, product design -- but, more importantly, how consumers experience products.

    GOING HOME WITH THE CUSTOMERS 2007

  • Count Pierre Bezukhov, the conscience of the novel, appears in both parts of the opera, but with his philosophical turmoil stripped to superficials, his character lacks weight.

    Peace, Then War: Prokofiev Does Tolstoy 2007

  • With Muslims, the superficials counted for more; a wrenching change like that of the Meiji Restoration was out of the question: the masses would have never gone along, such was the claim of Islam to their loyalty.

    Of skirts and scarves 2007

  • So what seemed like a "turn" from horror to food mystery--the earlier two before Prime are The Value of X and Liquor--haven't read either, but can't WAIT to get them now doesn't really seem that surprising, it's only the superficials that have changed.

    Some books are just plain great Jenny Davidson 2005

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