George R. R. Martin

I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend is killed, you should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it's a superficial experience isn't it?

American Author

Anne Frank

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.

German Writer

Paulo Coelho

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

Brazilian Novelist

Guy Debord

As specialists of apparent life, stars serve as superficial objects that people can identify with in order to compensate for the fragmented productive specialisations that they actually live.

French Writer

Wolfgang Tillmans

There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye.

German Photographer

Yolanda Hadid

It's hard for me to be involved in superficial friendships with other women.

American Model

John Caudwell

People are much more important than superficial environments.

English Businessman

Fabio Lanzoni

I'm a deep person. I'm not a superficial person at all.

Italian Actor

Ava Gardner

American Actress

Andy Warhol

American Artist

Use 'superficial' when something appears simple but has more complexity underneath.

Closer Look

Describe an initial understanding that may change with further insight.

Initial Impressions

Be cautious not to assume depth based on superficial details alone.

Avoid Assumptions

Use when someone's initial charm doesn't reflect their true personality.

Deceptive Appearance

Point out when something or someone lacks meaningful qualities or depth.

Lacking Substance

Use to express that depth or complexity is missing in someone's understanding.

Perceived Depth

To describe something that only affects the surface, not deeper structures.

Surface Level

Express minimal effect or change, often not worth worrying about.

Minimal Impact

In medicine, it means relating to the visible part or near the surface of the body.

Medical Context

In medical terms, superficial injuries are usually less severe and heal faster.

Quick Healing

 It's on the cunning, manipulative. So, faking your brain going wrong is evidence that your brain has gone wrong. And I spoke to other experts, and they said the pinstripe suit -- classic psychopath -- speaks to items one and two on the glibness, superficial charm and grandiose sense of self-worth.

Strange answers to the...

 So I said fine, I've got a new plan. I'm going to keep using these online dating sites, but I'm going to treat them as databases, and rather than waiting for an algorithm to set me up, I think I'm going to try reverse-engineering this entire system. So knowing that there was superficial data

How I hacked online...

 a pendulum. Animation is a time-based art form. It may incorporate the aesthetic elements of other graphic arts, like illustration or painting, but what sets animation apart is that, here, what you see is less important that what you don't see. An object's superficial appearance

Animation basics: The...

 I don't know what good it did, but he recommended that book to them, and after that the term "alpha male" became very popular. But I think it is used in a mischaracterization. It's used in a very superficial way that doesn't relate to what a real alpha male is.

The surprising science...

 had such a profound influence on inner-city gangs. Secondly, I want to tell you how somebody like me came to be able to see the inner workings of a gang -- an interesting story, I think. And then third, I want to tell you, in a very superficial way,

The freakonomics of...

 The adult brain has stem cells, but they're very rare and they're located in deep and small niches in the depths of the brain. So it was surprising to get this kind of stem cell culture from the superficial part of swollen brain we had

The brain may be able to...

 Image is powerful, but also, image is superficial. I just totally transformed what you thought of me, in six seconds. And in this picture, I had actually never had a boyfriend in real life. I was totally uncomfortable,

Looks aren't everything....

 your job i think is to find a way to join with that person so that they can give you something that's deeper than the superficial and my the one way that i find that gets to that place is when they

Reframing Black History...

 this is a superficial but this has caused a lot of problem and then this puncture here somewhere on the dorsal side of it base of the tail and then the bite at the base of the tail has

Cheetah Cub Attacked By...

 fluffy sweet superficial and just like cotton candy too much of it can leave a very bad pain in your stomach I live in a world of chaos where dream and reality

Superficial