All 10 Uses of
superficial
in
Middlemarch
- …to meet with this rare combination of elements both solid and attractive, adapted to supply aid in graver labors and to cast a charm over vacant hours; and but for the event of my introduction to you (which, let me again say, I trust not to be superficially coincident with foreshadowing needs, but providentially related thereto as stages towards the completion of a life's plan), I should presumably have gone on to the last without any attempt to lighten my solitariness by a matrimonial…†
Chpt 1
- Less superficial reasoners among them wished to know who his father and grandfather were, observing that five-and-twenty years ago nobody had ever heard of a Bulstrode in Middlemarch.†
Chpt 2
- He was a vigorous animal with a ready understanding, but no spark had yet kindled in him an intellectual passion; knowledge seemed to him a very superficial affair, easily mastered: judging from the conversation of his elders, he had apparently got already more than was necessary for mature life.†
Chpt 2
- And it were well if all such could be admonished to discriminate judgments of which the true subject-matter lies entirely beyond their reach, from those of which the elements may be compassed by a narrow and superficial survey.†
Chpt 2
- "My judgment was a very superficial one—such as I am capable of forming," she answered, with a prompt resentment, that needed no rehearsal.†
Chpt 2 *
- To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed.†
Chpt 3
- "He is not indeed an author adapted to superficial minds," said Mr. Casaubon, meeting these timely questions with dignified patience.†
Chpt 3
- Here were deeper reasons than the superficial talk of a new man, which appeared still flimsier in the drawing-room over the shop, when they were recited to Mrs. Mawmsey, a woman accustomed to be made much of as a fertile mother,—generally under attendance more or less frequent from Mr. Gambit, and occasionally having attacks which required Dr. Minchin.†
Chpt 5
- I was yesterday taken by surprise, and saw it superficially.†
Chpt 7
- She put out her hand to Rosamond, and they said an earnest, quiet good-by without kiss or other show of effusion: there had been between them too much serious emotion for them to use the signs of it superficially.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(superficial) relating to a surface rather than to anything deep or penetrating (often of injuries or thinking)