surficially

The prevalent feeling on this poll in most media is that "all three candidates" have "lost support," and surficially that's the case -- Rasmussen's poll two weeks ago had John Hickenlooper at 43%, Dan Maes at 31%, and Tom Tancredo at 18%, a consistent decline obviously more attributable to greater indecision among voters than it is any one candidate peeling support from another.

Rasmussen Gubernatorial Poll Shows Demoralized Partisans, Hick on Top 2010

Jack Vance's "The Moon Moth," for example, contemplates a world obsessed with something we at first see as surficially silly.

MIND MELD: What's Your Favorite Sub-Genre of Science Fiction and/or Fantasy? 2008

They are another of many 1970s bands I knew first surficially and did not really appreciate until I dug into the tracks the radio stations did not play.

CogDogBlog Alan Levine aka CogDog 2010

They are another of many 1970s bands I knew first surficially and did not really appreciate until I dug into the tracks the radio stations did not play.

CogDogBlog Alan Levine aka CogDog 2010

This volume takes on a once verboten topic -- can surficially beneficent or altruistic behavior sometimes be motivated by more unsavory drives like aggression, egotism or even rapacious self-interest?

Sentient Developments David Brin 2010

National Treasure = The DaVinci Code or any formulaic, surficially entertaining but shallower than the average puddle, book, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is self representative, Catwoman and Sin City = comic books, Harry Potter and LotR as themselves, and Skinemax = vampire erotica?

Neth Space Neth 2006

National Treasure = The DaVinci Code or any formulaic, surficially entertaining but shallower than the average puddle, book, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is self representative, Catwoman and Sin City = comic books, Harry Potter and LotR as themselves, and Skinemax = vampire erotica?

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