Shallowness refers to the lack of depth or substance in someone's thoughts, feelings, or behavior. People who are shallow may only care about superficial things and have little interest in meaningful or profound discussions or activities. They may focus too much on appearances and show a lack of understanding or empathy for others.
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Because of the relative
shallowness of the world as grasped in secondary perception our symbols, which borrow their first intentionality from this immediate world of sensation, are never adequate to their second intentionality.
Visually, the Vignale is basically a conventional Mondeo that went through the Victoria Beckham posh - up tutorial, but there's no room
for shallowness because the front seats are a blessing for the back and probably the most prominent component entitled to the premium status.
«Heathers» (1989) One of the biggest cult films of the late»80s, with Ryder (opposite Christian Slater) playing an intelligent high schooler battling conformity and
shallowness among her peers.
We rightly reject the sort of
spiritual shallowness which expresses itself in an affected superiority in the presence of the extraordinary richness of human life, that underplays the wonder and the joy of married love, and at the same time (there is a connection) depreciates the worlds of natural beauty and of the arts.
«51 But this embodiment of beauty tends toward
shallowness because it concentrates on adapting immediate appearance for immediate beauty.
The waters beneath the Second Narrows bridge in Vancouver's harbour, because of their
relative shallowness and strong tidal currents, flowing through a narrow passage that includes the obstacle of the bridge, pose special navigational challenge according to safety experts.
Without sound metaphysics to ground both science and religion, both degenerate
into shallowness or, worse, the doctrine of the «double truth,» one from reason and one from faith.
There's no room for
shallowness as the Renault Sport wizards fitted the hot hatch with Öhlins Road & Track adjustable dampers, Recaro seats and Alcantara - dressed steering wheel, gear lever, and handbrake.
That means that, for the sheer diversity of features, items and pokemon present in the game, there's still a lingering sort of
shallowness which is present, and to be expected when the game is primarily made for gamers who know it's lunchtime by the sound of a shrill, ringing bell.
The problem affects the secular minded, whose
theological shallowness leaves them unable to respond to religious movements, and also religious thinkers and conservatives, who engage in the public square but are uneasy with the liberal order.
That it then becomes a
real shallowness, a lust after someone sexually attractive.
These pieces were made before Saul discovered acrylic mediums and before he began addressing political and social issues — the American war machine, the systematic brutalization of women, victimization of minorities, the plight of poor and indigenous peoples, and the
overall shallowness of everyday life.
He must have known that even followers of Jesus would be tempted by
online shallowness, divisiveness and bitterness.
Even something that doesn't quite sizzle, like Terry and Edie's romance, is at least
not shallowness born out of honoring a classic convention.
It might be an indictment of
human shallowness, but you can't help first impressions.
I make fun of the
policy shallowness of Romney's convention speech and how he tried to use personal anecdotes to try to get people to like him without giving any real idea of what he would try to do as president.
, and while its one line hits home with me, it is closer to the
typical shallowness of rock social comment than to its rarer instances of profundity.
The question for the future is not whether Hollywood will again support the status quo or support authority but whether its offerings will continue to reflect and advance the
moral shallowness — indeed the emptiness — of yuppie liberalism.
When ministers characterize banal music as «Sunday school songs,» and simplistic ideas as «Sunday school theology,» the meaning is clear to all who hear — Sunday school
equals shallowness, sentimentality, and a lack of scholarly foundations.
Moreover, sensa are declared to have some form of realization that differs from that of patterns: «But the realization of a sensum in its
ideal shallowness of intensity, with zero width, does not require any other eternal object, other than its intrinsic apparatus of individual and relational essence; it can remain just itself, with its unrealized potentialities for patterned contrasts» (PR 115 / 176).
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Antonyms shallowness, superficiality; brainlessness, idiocy, imbecility, mindlessness, simpleness, stupidity, witlessness; illogic, irrationality, unreasonableness, unsoundness
For them, its overtones are imperialistic (invading the lives of others), revivalistic (connoting
intellectual shallowness and emotionalism), and manipulative (pushing people by arousing guilt and fear).
A good many others too decry the alleged
technical shallowness of those charged with prosecuting high profile graft cases, and call for drastic changes.
However, there are many ways to manipulate your routine and training intensity for the purpose of overcoming lower
pecs shallowness and adding more volume to your chest such as using dropsets, rest - pause sets and negative reps. And if you want a well - developed chest, hitting both the lower part of the pectoralis major and the pectoralis minor is a must.
It seems that with with every improvement in technology simply highlights the
utter shallowness of people.
Don't let your
own shallowness get in the way of being open - minded... you could miss out on someone great if you do!
iam a 25 year old male looking to meet older women, lets face it «women» my age do nt know what you more matured ladies know, im an artist, like to socially drink, and just as a bonus for you to think about, i have a universal personality, with no barriers or
superficial shallowness, ask me...
Alright, let's say you've weathered the pitiful response rate, and you've slogged your... you pair your
newfound shallowness with... 5.
He recreates a world of high fashion and meticulous design, in all the aesthetic glory and, perhaps, the
frustrating shallowness that comes along with it.
And while the film never aligns itself with Jamie's point of view, Driver is able to gradually reveal the depth (or, more aptly, the
calculated shallowness) beneath his character's stylish affectation: Josh, as it turns out, is merely another old collectable for Jamie's gainful amusement.
What's more, Steve McQueen's insta - contender, a historical indictment many perceive as being as deep as young Patsey's (Lupita Nyong» o) abyss of despair, would be overtaken by an epic of
unadulterated shallowness.
In spite of Josh Brolin's heroic efforts, W. is a skin - deep biopic that revels in its
antic shallowness.
For example, Hero's Duty character Sergeant Tamora Jean Calhoun (voiced wonderfully by Jane Lynch) is revealed to be as aggressive as she is because of the backstory she was programmed with, acknowledging the simplicity and
often shallowness in which character motivations, across many different types of media, are often explained and justified.
[37] Examples include later installments in the Mario Party and Paper Mario series; after the releases of Mario Party 3 and Paper Mario: Sticker Star respectively, both series have been cited as losing their flair due to stagnation or
increasing shallowness.
I don't think Scorsese has a feel for the kind of
popular shallowness that Shutter Island represents.
But at the same it often seems somewhat superfluous; an unnecessary layer of complication that's only there to try and hide the game's
innate shallowness.
It seems to have been successful in encouraging depth rather than width, and avoiding
inevitable shallowness in enquiries.
There are so many worthy topics about how people define difficulty, twitch skills vs. depth, easy vs. hard, difficulty vs. accessibility, easy vs. engaging,
shallowness vs. depth, and so on.
But for those who know what else Mario has to offer, there is a
notable shallowness in its imagination.
A Thief's End may have deconstructed the original trilogy's
pulpy shallowness, but Naughty Dog could only do much with the limited fallout of those by - the - book adventures.
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