Word: shallowing
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...what we get is the Allen persona of all his films, at least up to Annie Hall--ingratiatingly awkward and insecure, morbid, conscientious; intellectual and only saved from pseudo-intellectualism because his sidekicks are transparently far more pompous and shallow. Above all, he's acutely aware of all these things about himself, and, therefore, by an easy step, somehow above all his failings because he knows about them, After all he wrote the film--A Woody Allen Film...
...sides, can also be worrisome. Much of the punditry of Washington columnists and the daily run of informed content in newspapers, newsmagazines and on the air is based on anonymity. A Deep Throat may happen along only once in a decade, but in Washington a lot of shallow throats and wagging tongues are in action all the time...
...doesn't stick. Don't believe the box. He simply doesn't grip most surfaces. Despite the suction cups that bulge from his body, he makes but the feeblest attempt to cling to the wall of the Jordan Marsh toy department, bouncing off again and again with his shallow vinyl grin intact...
...drilling obviously poses a considerable risk to a rare and important ecosystem with a resource that, unlike oil, is renewable. Twelve thousand years ago, Georges Bank was dry land at the end of a glacier. It is still as shallow as nine feet in parts, and 300 feet at its deepest; one fisherman's tale has it that a ship's crew was able to play baseball on a shoal after a storm. The Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current converge at the site and circulate a hearty brew of nutrients on which plankton thrive and proliferate. Fish...
...what I now see as Harvard's main problem; the steady decline of the humanities as a part of undergraduate education. Harvard's claim to provide a liberal education is very much open to question, when the picture of European culture that the average student acquires is so shallow, so edited, anthologized and interpreted as to be almost meaningless. From this comes a disorder and low morale among those committed to the humanities that is in contrast with the discipline and order of the scientific camp. The real cause of the decline no doubt lies well beyond Harvard...