Dreams are superficial

It's only superficially superficial.

It's... It's quite superficial.

Anything. Even the most superficial relationship.

He has only a superficial knowledge of Japanese.

These guys confined their surgery to fairly superficial injuries.

You dare suggest that our honour is merely superficial?

You have to acquire real skills, not just superficial knowledge.

Moreover, even the previous period of quiet was only superficial.

This represents a superficial manner of dealing with the real issues.

One must have conviction in law, or its existence will be superficial only.

Unless that deeper issue is adequately addressed, any change will be only superficial.

56. Some current attempts to address the issue of child labour were too superficial.

I do realize the idea might sound a bit superficial, gothic if you want...

Multiple superficial wounds of the left and right thigh, left and right knee, and right foot.

This superficial understanding of populism makes the French presidential election an ominous symptom of Europe s blind leadership.

Changes cannot be partial or superficial and must not merely satisfy the hegemonistic ambitions of a few.

Counsel contends that such a superficial investigation cannot be deemed to amount to an effective domestic remedy.

Speaks to items one and two on the checklist glibness, superficial charm and grandiose sense of self worth.

The resemblance to Tony Ashby was... purely superficial in their cases... but I might've got away with it.

They only know the superficial realities of the worldly life and they are unaware of the life to come.

They only know the superficial realities of the worldly life and they are unaware of the life to come.

I'm not interested at all in blobism or any of that superficial rubbish that you see coming out as design.

Finding a precise face for a crowd of characters that in your script are so rough, so vague, so superficial...

It was therefore important for the Committee to deal comprehensively with the problem and not succumb to facile and superficial solutions.

A working paper that attempted to deal with all of the land and resource issues would necessarily be superficial and lengthy.

Both countries are his neighbors, and in theory at least, their leaders are his ideological soul mates. But the differences between the modern and archaic left, and the three countries contradictory national interests, seem to be trumping more superficial political affinities.

It is these kinds of stories, ones that go beyond the immediate or just the superficial that demonstrate the power of photojournalism.

Concerning the monitoring and assessment information provided by Syria, Iraq states that it lacks the necessary data, and is superficial and inconclusive.

Systematic intellectual stultification by providing students with a meagre, superficial and shallow education unrelated to their history, heritage, culture, homeland and nation.

And there were no superficial conversations as we shared our innermost thoughts, our fears, and our hopes for life after the spinal ward.

I also believe that most members recognize that the so called time bound nuclear disarmament approach is not realistic, despite any superficial appeal.

However, even a superficial reading of the literature suggests that there are real concerns relating to the application of particular Iranian norms and practices.

WAGENINGEN, NETHERLANDS Born in 1957, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is now more than 50 years old, and the European Commission is proposing what it calls a health check for its middle aged child. But superficial repairs will not meet the European Union s future needs.

So, on balance, Obama s first trip to China achieved relatively little. Moreover, what he did achieve looks superficial, while what he gave up seems substantial.

In fact, looking exclusively at the superficial symptoms of physical security and the prevention of terrorism or violence provides at best a partial, short term solution.

Of the roughly 200 trillion in global financial assets today, almost three quarters are in some kind of debt instrument, including bank loans, corporate bonds, and government securities. The derivatives market certainly helps spread risk more widely than this superficial calculation implies, but the basic point stands.

His essay gave only a superficial analysis of the problem, so it was a real surprise to him when he got the highest grade in the class.

Not just a superficial image of it, though it contains that as well, but an explanatory model, embodying the same mathematical relationships and the same causal structure.

In Uganda, most of our successes have been attained in the face of opposition, indifference or distracting, superficial heckling by quite a number of our external partners.

They get into competitive colleges, they get good jobs, and sometimes they make a success of themselves in a superficial manner, and they make a ton of money.

The media, both national and international, are likely to become even less interested than is currently the case in relation to such frequent, and most likely superficial, procedures.

These three superficial factors reflect the reason behind the relative lagging behind of our growth pattern change. That is, the government led growth has not yet been fundamentally changed.

noted that, given the current structure of agendas, there was a risk of spreading scarce financial and human resources too thin, which would lead to superficial and ineffective results.

The proliferation of items included in the agenda of sessions inevitably leads to superficial treatment of all items and does not promote the effectiveness which we all fervently seek.