I mean I put up with your materialism, superficiality, and egotism on a daily basis without biting your head off. |
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His particular brand of late-capitalist pop nihilism combined with his angst-ridden gay teen characters has always reeked of superficiality. |
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When it was first shown, their work seemed to represent a new low in superficiality and attitudinizing. |
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In the early days John was routinely accused of glibness, superficiality, mannerism, of Pop-Art vacancy and amorality. |
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He confronts his contemporaries with masked reflections of their own superficiality and hypocrisy. |
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In a world befogged by superficiality, moments of clarity are few and far between. |
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I hated superficiality, and the popular people were the very epitome of it. |
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She meandered through an interminable speech ranging through topics from sick children and warfare to the superficiality of film. |
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To be sure, there was much ceremoniousness and the superficiality that went with it. |
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The superficiality of this interview is an ironic prelude to the depths we will watch the characters experience later. |
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The novel exposes the superficiality of bourgeois lives that associate the possession of material things with prosperity and good living. |
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He's hardly a stud, and his superficiality and dismissal of any woman he deems unfit are more galling as a result. |
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What discourages one in this director is the flatness and superficiality of his projects from the heart. |
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We demonstrate the complex cytoarchitecture of the planarian brain, despite the simple superficiality of the morphology. |
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I despised myself, accused myself in turn of insensibility, superficiality, of disrespect. |
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Undoubtedly, this phenomenon is yet another indication of the glitziness, superficiality and shallowness, which characterizes modern society. |
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Even the primal urge for physical activity succumbs to superficiality and materialism in the end. |
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It's bright and shiny and colourful, and it frequently makes me smile, and it's honest about its utter superficiality. |
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He personifies superficiality and embodies the fact that they have nothing more to say politically. |
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Even the television ads for these magazines celebrate the hopeless stupidity and superficiality of the male. |
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In place of serious musical appreciation we got crass superficiality. |
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More heat than light as the result of a format that forced superficiality on the – I want to say contestants – participants. |
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The weakness in Romney is his superficiality, and the problem in our politics is... well, its superficiality. |
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They are figures who have left madness behind them, and this is why they are marked by such a consistently heartrending, inhuman superficiality. |
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Despite the great quality of its prose, the story itself rings with superficiality, a certain lack of true profundity that can be covered but not overcome. |
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Dogme is dedicated to ridding cinema of artifice and superficiality. |
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Stewart's outrage at the sensationalism and superficiality of cable is largely on target. |
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If that were not the case then it would mean that we have for too long grown used to our own complacency and superficiality. |
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It helps to manage oneself in life and in the difficulties of our consecrated life, with the aim of avoiding superficiality and routine. |
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In circumstances in which rapidity and superficiality prevail we need serenity and depth because, in reality, a person is fashioned very slowly. |
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One of the main reasons, took without doubt the fact that the events that took place in this region of the world do not allow superficiality. |
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This has all a sudden revealed to us the superficiality of our knowledge about the boreal forest. |
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He had ambitions and ideas that exceeded the superficiality of his industry. |
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Hence, complication and superficiality only arise when we have no criteria to guide us. |
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If we forget that we are guilty of conceit, evasiveness and superficiality. |
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It is necessary to establish that at the base of this tendency there is not only superficiality. |
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If the city the city we love to hate for its superficiality is on board, who knows? |
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The former makes for disappointment on the part of many worthy claimants, the latter for diffuseness, superficiality and possible waste. |
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Indeed, one must be on one's guard in this question, too, against superficiality. |
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The history of larp as a hobby for the rich and famous illustrates the superficiality of its current geeky stigma. |
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And, as has been in the news lately, modeling can also be about stress, superficiality, race and false values. |
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Logically, one should be in favor of the traditional method, and critical toward the superficiality of the short-term therapy. |
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But, beneath the superficiality of the comments that have circulated to date, that revitalization effort actually proposes taking away from the Assembly the competences conferred upon it under the Charter. |
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Half-heartedness, superficiality, a lack of courage, and complacency, indeed, insincerity about many of the key issues on the Community's agenda shape the picture. |
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The instability of the content shown on these electronic surfaces gives rise to a superficiality and exteriority in a process of constant renewal. |
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The works in this exhibition, each in its own way, contest these phenomena of superficiality and fleetingness even as they themselves incorporate screen surfaces. |
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It's the Sarajevo, Loki or Kabul look, and a far cry from the glamour, gorgeousness and limitless superficiality of the Beirut that we knew only ten days ago. |
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Don't succumb to that disease of character whose symptoms are inconstancy in everything, thoughtlessness in action and speech scatter-brained ideas: superficiality, in short. |
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Nevertheless, we cannot avoid being influenced by the dominant values of our culture which can ensnare us in the dynamics of consumerism, superficiality, an existential vacuum and the unbelief of many of our contemporaries. |
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Storm Thorgerson could be inscrutable, grand and archly funny – all qualities that placed him some distance from the music industry's standard mixture of flimsy bonhomie and superficiality. |
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Hirst's spot paintings are icons of superficiality for a superficial age. |
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A city renowned for its glitz and superficiality, for its silicone and veneers, for its worship of celebrity and aspiration might not seem the obvious place for Arctic Monkeys to settle. |
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In its variety, its superficiality, its solitary night walkers and its jumbled juxtaposition of public and private spaces, you could argue that it is the beating heart of Englishness. |
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. member's comments build on those of our colleague from the Bloc in terms of the superficiality of the bill, if I could put it that way. |
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This work was prepared for the use of those interested in Italian immigration and to overcome an attitude of superficiality prevalent in many areas. |
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American communication scholars themselves perceive the problems of superficiality to which compulsive behavioral operationalism can lead. |
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Both he and coreligionist Dada focused on the superficiality of the speech. |
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Mary Crawford, while possessing some good qualities and having much charm and vivacity is ultimately doomed by her superficiality, materialism and an inability to change. |
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Glam artists rejected the revolutionary principles of the late 1960s rock scene, instead glorifying decadence, superficiality, and the simple structures of earlier pop music. |
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