Martha Plimpton

The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an incredibly disparate economy in terms of the class distinctions and whatnot, and a tremendous shallowness - a lot of sort of bank robbery by executives.

American Model

James Blunt

I relax by catching up with my friends and family. When I am at home in Ibiza, I find the contrast of living on a divided island relaxing - with beauty and tranquillity in the north and a sense of fun, shallowness and celebration in the south.

English Musician

Pankaj Mishra

Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.

Indian Novelist

Laurie Graham

Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if pearl production doesn't materialise, the outcome will still be preferable to the shallowness of vanity.

English Journalist

Rick Perlstein

What does it mean to truly believe in America? To wave a flag? Or to struggle toward a more searching alternative to the shallowness of the flag-wavers - to criticize, to interrogate, to analyze, to dissent?

American Historian

Justin Cartwright

In a way, advertising, for all its shallowness, its love of design, its modishness and its self-justification, is curiously innocent. The idea of the hidden persuader or the manipulator is largely absurd.

British Novelist

Henry Rollins

Consumerism is at once the engine of America and simultaneously one of the most revealing indicators of our collective shallowness.

American Musician

Refers to literal depth, like in a body of water or a physical space.

Physical Depth

Shallow areas can be considered safer for certain activities, such as swimming.

Safety Implication

Used to describe how much of the bottom can be seen due to the water’s shallowness.

Visible Surface

Indicates a person doesn't reflect deeply or understand complexities.

Lack of Insight

In some cultures, being labeled shallow is an insult, implying a lack of substance.

Cultural Perception

Shallowness can refer to one's emotional responses being surface-level.

Emotional Depth

 He kicked a child, grabs the child like this and I let it go. And this is what it's all about. These relationship skills are so easy. I mean, we as humans, our shallowness when we choose a life-mate