superficialness

I felt that there was a superficialness and immaturity to all the characters that rang untrue.

GREY’S ANATOMY: Melrose Place | the TV addict 2007

There is an abundance of superficialness, of pedantry, of inflation, and of want of thought.

Uncollected Prose 2006

I'm just boring when i haven't been outside the home except for superficialness.

writerchic88 Diary Entry writerchic88 2004

While under the pupilage of his grandfather, his progress had rapidly gone quite beyond his instructor's hope, -- leaving him even to tremble at the audacity with which he overturned and invented theories, and to wonder at the depth at which he wrought beneath the superficialness and mock-mystery of the medical science of those days, like a miner sinking his shaft and running a hideous peril of the earth caving in above him.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Various

Otherwise their education and reading were not marked, but had the American superficialness, and their studies were solitary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Holmes, Oliver W 1891

Otherwise their education and reading were not marked, but had the American superficialness, and their studies were solitary.

Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

While under the pupilage of his grandfather, his progress had rapidly gone quite beyond his instructor's hope, -- leaving him even to tremble at the audacity with which he overturned and invented theories, and to wonder at the depth at which he wrought beneath the superficialness and mock-mystery of the medical science of those days, like a miner sinking his shaft and running a hideous peril of the earth caving in above him.

The Dolliver Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

There is an abundance of superficialness, of pedantry, of inflation, and of want of thought.

Uncollected Prose 1832

Will you say it is the superficialness of my life, that I have known hours with men and nature, that bore their proper fruit, -- all present ate and were filled, and there were taken up of the fragments twelve baskets full?

Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I Margaret Fuller 1830

Its nice that you acknowledge your superficialness but seriously, dumping her because of her skin?

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