The moment good men look to outward and superficial triumphs, to the disregard of inward purity, that moment do they accept the Jesuitical lie of all ages,"The end justifies the means.

He was stigmatized as unsound and superficial.

He produced several superficial and grossly inaccurate schoolbooks,like his Animated Nature and his histories of England, Greece, and Rome,which brought him bread and more fine clothes, and his Vicar of Wakefield, The Deserted Village, and She Stoops to Conquer, which brought him undying fame.

Never was there a period or a country in Christendom more frivolous, pleasure-seeking, sceptical, irreligious, vain, conceited, and superficial than during the reign of Madame de Pompadour.

He uncovers the great social farce of life, which is acted with such solemn gravity by the snobs, the hypocrites, and the other superficial dramatis personae.

Cherbuliez is always an interesting story-teller and an ingenious artificer of plot, but his psychology is conventional and his descriptive passages superficial though clever.

Superficial thinkers have loosely answered, "Inspiration," implying, (according to the literal meaning of the word, "to breathe in"), that some mysterious external force (called by the ancients, "A Muse") enters into the mind of the author with a special revelation.

This trait marks the fundamental difference between superficial and profound thinkers.

Though they seem almost unsurmountable, they are really only superficial.

He had an idea that Creedon's investigations might have been very superficial; he determined to make a thorough and systematic search, and he actually believed he would find the hidden gold.

But this is wrong; and the error is due simply to a rough and superficial estimate of the results of daily experience.

That is the reason why qualities which are merely acquired, or learned, or enforcedthat is, qualities a posteriori, whether moral or intellectualare not real or genuine, but superficial only, and possessed of no value.

Superficial people, to be sure,and, for very good reasons, commonplace people too,will be of the opposite opinion; for if anything fails them they will thus be enabled to console themselves by thinking that it is still to come.

Instead of trying to explain away the fundamental truth of Fatalism by superficial twaddle and foolish evasion, a man should attempt to get a clear knowledge and comprehension of it; for it is demonstrably true, and it helps us in a very important way to an understanding of the mysterious riddle of our life.

The most superficial glance points out a contrariety in external appearances, which leaves little doubt that here peoples of entirely different blood live near and among one another.

At any rate, the apprehension of Semper, which rests on somewhat superficial physiognomic ground, is not confirmed by searching investigations.

Strike at less superficial melodies.

It has been suggested that Lamb favoured this old word also on account of its superficial association with agnus, a lamb.

P.G. Patmore's Rejected Articles, 1826, leads off with "An Unsentimental Journey" by Elia which is, except for a fitful superficial imitation of some of Lamb's mannerisms, as unlike him as could well be.

Owing to the absence of rain and rivers, denudation such as we experience would be unknown, though the superficial scoriaceous crust might be partially broken up by expansion and contraction, and suffer a certain amount of atmospheric erosion.

The result would be that very early in the process great superficial tensions would be produced, which could only be relieved by cracks or fissures, which would initiate at points of weaknessprobably at the craterlets already referred tofrom which they would radiate in several directions.

On such occasions men lose the superficial, worldly distinctions; they become human beings working together for a common end.

Those writers who have called the Inca religion a "sun worship" have been led astray by superficial resemblances.

The process of education has been going on rapidly in the Southern States since the Civil War, and yet, if we take superficial indications, the rights of the Negroes are at a lower ebb than at any time during the thirty-five years of their freedom, and the race prejudice more intense and uncompromising.

A superficial observer would have called the slaves happy.