Word: shallowing
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George W. Bush is in the process of finding out. As a youthful candidate who wanted to be taken seriously despite his inexperience in foreign affairs, he struck a tough-guy pose, compensating for shallow knowledge by adopting the combative tone of a cold warrior. Guided by advisers steeped in anticommunism, Candidate Bush sought to contrast his hard-eyed "realism" with a Clinton-Gore idealism that he called bereft of core principles and dominated by a misguided desire to insert Washington into global peacemaking. The easiest way to mark the distinction was to talk up Russia and China as nations...
When a student finally graduates out of this culture, he has undoubtedly gained a smattering of practical knowledge. But after four years in a shallow, conformist world, he is no closer to being an adult, really, than when he entered high school in the first place. Or if he has matured, than it has been in spite of his "socialization," not because...
...them were to do it, allowing pretty much every American to see the speech who wanted to, that would be plenty good enough. But the networks, plus CNN and MSNBC, are afraid not to televise the speech. They're afraid that critics and pundits will call them shallow and mercenary. They do it so they can be perceived as good citizens. So why not just take turns from here...
These were wise words and I could have accepted them more readily had the speaker not been de Klerk. Somehow, his words seemed shallow and bitter to ingest...
...years ago, however, we pivoted around to the horizontal. Culture, instead of being passed down vertically through time, began to move along instead on a vast frothing horizontal, across the generation - a great wave advancing on a broad front and transmitting a popular culture about 15 minutes deep: a shallow, throwaway, universal culture in the form of globally shared television shows, movies, music, drugs and other sensations of interchangeable news and entertainment...