All 3 Uses of
superficial
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
- We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost.
Chpt 6 *superficial = shalloweditor's notes: In this context, forlorn means alone or pitiful.
- I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow.
Chpt 10superficiality = shallowness
- ...we live a closed, hard existence of the utmost superficiality, and rarely does an incident strike out a spark.
Chpt 11
Definition:
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(superficial) relating to a surface rather than to anything deep or penetrating (often of injuries or thinking)