Word: shallowing
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...been able to put together a more effective response to Gingrich & Co. that the Republicans swept into Congress in 1994. However fat Rush Limbaugh may be, making fun of his obesity does not by any means cast his opinions in a darker light--unless you are a truly shallow human being. Brown's editorial displayed a lack of political astuteness that should prevent anyone from ever taking him seriously again--if anyone ever has before...
...Harvard, and in American civic life, have been increasingly pervaded with apathy in the past 30 years. If our public leaders, in the academy and in government, refuse to engage in the difficult yet necessary work of honest self-assessment, then concepts like "diversity" will only exist as shallow mantras, and cynicism in public life can only continue to grow...
There is more comedy in "Young Poisoner," black comedy, which is its true intention. But the black comedy here is not even close to that of "Pulp Fiction" and "Shallow Grave." The screenplay doesn't keep up with the humor that it strives for, and the narration becomes quite unnecessary as the movie progresses. It also suffers from an excess of graphic violence; there are vomiting scenes a-plenty, making this a good last-date movie...
Opponents of religious displays, such as those on the Council's Student Affairs Committee, correctly attack them as parochial. But the real problem with most displays is that they are completely shallow. Sometimes they are so shallow that no one can even agree if they are religious at all. Christmas trees are ironic in that Christians often consider them secular, while non-Christians consider them religious. Several house committee chairs have told me they would be ambivalent about religious events sponsored by the house but simultaneously have defended "holiday" (a.k.a Christmas) decorations as inclusive...
...with regard to Germans' violation of Jews' humanity that I consider analogous to White slavocracy's violation of Blacks' humanity, Jeffery Vanke is equally shallow, though with a pseudo-veneer of reflectiveness. Witness Jeffrey Vanke's comments like--"I am sorry for slavery like I am sorry for the Holocaust (no family connections there)," and like--"...the Holocaust was very foreign to this Southerner [Jeffrey Vanke] who knew no Jews until...