Word: shallowing
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Fashion faux pas: Um, please go back to the look-my-cute-bangs-fall-in-my-beautiful-but-shallow-eyes look. The new slicked back hairdo doesn't do much for your uneven hairline, Nathaniel...
...mall—altogether a frightening image. If you ask most American kids that same question today, they would likely respond with a description of Robert Pattinson.The symbol of the vampire, older than our country, has once again been appropriated for consumption by a modern audience in the shallow form of “Twilight” and the more thoughtful effort, “True Blood,” which possesses some capacity to reasonably incorporate the character’s symbolic relevance to modern issues.In the competition for ultimate domination of the American pop culture sphere, only obnoxious...
...Hutton's character describes meeting his beautiful wife, who is already a mother, and says he knew he ought to marry her because he'd never do better. "I remember thinking, this is amazing, it's like she's already, pre-tested? I actually thought about that. Is it shallow? Does it sound shallow? Or do you think the truth behind this kind of thing will always sound kind of shallow? Everybody's real reasons...
...hopes not, Professor Adams, although here? Yes, they do sound shallow, and that's painful for anyone who believes men have more dimensions than hideousness. Wallace was a writer who pieced together such complicated crazy quilts of words that you had to take his essays and prose in slowly, inch by inch (or in the case of me and Infinite Jest, absorb over the course of a leisurely decade. Or two). You hope for that same richness in Krasinski's film. Instead I found myself thinking of those man-on-the-street interviews Sex and the City used during...
...roughly the Zuckerberg we get at the end. And that’s the main issue—the script sets him up as an underdog who fights against privilege to achieve a glittering rags-to-riches success, but his motivations seem so shallow (or, if we’re going to be kind, inscrutable) that we don’t really care...