Both Uses of
superficial
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- To Boldwood women had been remote phenomena rather than necessary complements—comets of such uncertain aspect, movement, and permanence, that whether their orbits were as geometrical, unchangeable, and as subject to laws as his own, or as absolutely erratic as they superficially appeared, he had not deemed it his duty to consider.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- In the worst attacks of trouble there appears to be always a superficial film of consciousness which is left disengaged and open to the notice of trifles, and Bathsheba was faintly amused at the boy's method, till he too passed on.†
Chpt 43-45
Definition:
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(superficial) relating to a surface rather than to anything deep or penetrating (often of injuries or thinking)