Word: shallowing
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...computer and analytical requirement QRR--dismissed by several generations of Harvard students--has also been attacked for its shallow treatment in comparison with the computer revolution in industry and research in the 1980s...
...also achieves a meditative tone in a slow, heavy journey over a dream landscape which makes a statement about the danger of fame. Moulding's attempt at thoughtfulness, however, falls flat in "Cynical Days," a song resembling a pre-teen poem of depression: "Another see-through scheme, people are shallow. The dark night's closing in, my dark thoughts follow." By forcing Partridge's voice to assume a lilting tone, "Cynical Days" leans more toward the laughable than the depressing...
...waitresses Trixie deTrade (Sherwin Parikh '90), a Joisey homegirl in a clingy jade satin mini and fuschia bikini top, and Sheila Lowitt, with sinister eye makeup, deftly trade bedtime barbs. When Trixie is scared by Sheila's desire to be a thespian, Sheila wonders, "How can you be so shallow?" "My boyfriend says I'm deep," Trixie retorts...
...David betrays that style, adding a shallow plot, unadmirable characters and a detached atmosphere. The Strike Zone is an insult to the fans' intelligence and devotion...
...earnest plonkers had written this clumsy, lively, thoroughly entertaining family saga of war and romance, no reader would have puzzled over deep currents that seem unaccountably shallow. Anthony Burgess, however, is one of literature's certified mandarins, known as an explicator of Ulysses (Re Joyce), a postapocalyptic moralist (A Clockwork Orange), and a scholar showily at home in a double handful of ancient and modern languages. He wigwags strenuously at the outset of this new novel that primal, mythic stuff is ahead -- ancient tales threading through the dark, tribal roots of 20th century bloody-mindedness...