Under the impulse of ideals, much that is untoward or superficial in one's bearing will disappear.

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.

I may have been superficial from mere superabundance of materials; sometimes mistaken as to facts and dates; the tastes, the feelings, and the faith of my readers may not always go along with me; but if attention and interest have been exitedif the sphere of enjoyment in works of Art have been enlarged and enlightened, I have done all I ever wishedall I ever hoped, to do.

Bolingbroke was a more important figure, and he was in close personal relation with Voltaire; but his controversial writings were clumsy and superficial to an extraordinary degree.

It is true that he was superficial with tin-tags and did not know the difference in value between a Steam Engine tagthe rarest of them alland a common Climax, but we forgave him as one forgives a friend who is ignorant of Persian pottery.