Word: shallowing
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...when the thoughtful senior does speak of his faith, sharing his compassion for those in need and offering a guarded critique of elements whose commitment to service is weaker, he is anything but shallow...
...sound like trickle-down economics, but the process is much more reliable. Eliminating the deficit would ease the government's demands on America's already shallow pool of savings, which by some estimates keeps interest rates percentage points higher than they would be under a balanced budget. Tear up Uncle Sam's credit card, and interest rates drop, allowing the private sector to grow as the government retreats. "What's at stake is nothing less than rekindling the American Dream," says Matthew Miller, a former Clinton budget official who quit this year over the White House's refusal to continue...
Richard's best friend and worst enemy is the daft, cheerful Gwyn Barry, whose glib utopian novel, Amelior, has rocketed to the top of the bestseller list. Stupid, shallow and immensely popular, Gwyn resembles Tod Friendly, the ex-Nazi from Amis' last novel, Time's Arrow. Of course, the public laps up Amelior, as Richard (who, as a soon-to-be-ex-novelist, has plenty of time on his hands) begins to plot revenge...
Barnum also persuaded a Universalist ministerto preach a sermon about man's arrogance inassuming that he knows all about the laws ofnature. The preacher delivered his sermon andspoke of the shallow philosophy of man whobelieves that he knows all about the earth and itscreation...
Unfortunately, many of the film's other characters are merely cardboard props that pop up at convenient times: Evie's closet sensitive boyfriend, her shallow in-group friends, Randy's family, her timid gay-guy friend and her aunt, a grump who snaps at everyone in the house like Archie Bunker with...