Both Uses
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A Sketch of the Past
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- If I could remember one whole day I should be able to describe, superficially at least, what life was like as a child.†
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- This influence, by which I mean the consciousness of other groups impinging upon ourselves; public opinion; what other people say and think; all those magnets which attract us this way to be like that, or repel us the other and make us different from that; has never been analysed in any of those Lives which I so much enjoy reading, or very superficially.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(superficial) relating to a surface rather than to anything deep or penetrating (often of injuries or thinking)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)