Browning knew the sensitiveness of her nature, which responded to the touch of affection, and he could not fail to discover her true self, veiled though it was by a superficial reserve.
Such a grouping of the works of the period is of a superficial nature, and it can be readily dismissed.
What is diffused through many of the letters is gathered up and is delivered from the alloy of superficial circumstance in the "Sonnets from the Portuguese.
And perhaps it is not certain that the genius of Browning was wholly a gainer by the superficial excitations of the dinner table and the reception room.
No person trained to the superficial execution of modern water-colour painting, can understand the work of Titian or Leonardo; they must for ever remain blind to the refinement of such men's pencilling, and the precision of their thinking.
Savages--hiding under a thin veneer of superficial culture.
After all, the superficial attributes of good breeding are not too hard to counterfeit.
But his connection with the movement is of the flimsiest and most superficial kind.
The least suspicion would inevitably cause inquiry; and the most superficial inquiry would as inevitably bring the whole house of cards tumbling about my ears.
He pronounces it "a superficial highly ferrugineous sandstone, with concretionary veins and aggregations.
To those who are content with superficial glitter electro plate is as good as sterling metal.
Had this man made even a superficial study of the hand he would have been spared much profanity and the pupil much heartache and disappointment.
He has done a great deal to undermine that superficial and "rose-water" view of Christianity current in official and academic Protestant circles.
The dominant fact that German medieval civilization was a civilization of free cities is driven home to the most superficial tourist.
A superficial reading often gives him knowledge of many of the main facts, and a mistaken idea that he knows the story.
The long story of the quarrel between the Colonies and the Mother Country is known to them in a superficial way.
Such, I say, are my own unambitious mental pastimes, but I am aware that less superficial spirits could not be satisfied with them, and I can not pretend that my wedding-journeyers were so.
Alma writhed internally, but outwardly remained subordinate; she examined the other girl's dress, and decided in a superficial consciousness that she had made her own bonnet.
He went and asked about the train to the Hague, but only to satisfy a superficial conscience; for now he knew that they were both of one mind about going home.
Doubtless when a mind arose, insensible by natural constitution to the superficial aspects of things, and having withal a great stretch of identifying intellect, such a comparison would then be possible.
They paint pictures of country folk attracted by thesuperficial allurements of the city, a poor exchange for the wholesomeness and freedom of life in the country.
The West Australian gold fields present an especially prominent example of this type of superficial enrichment.
The really superficial character of ore-deposits, even outside of the region of secondary enrichment is becoming every year better recognized.
I am often asked if I have heard him--I say no; but from the opinions of my acquaintances who are capable of judging such things I could tell that he has agility indeed, but otherwise is a very superficial person.
Those who see more than superficial playfulness in the relations between Beethoven and Amalie Sebald will of course see her name in the letter.
Of course, it took time to perceive this distinction between fundamental and superficial resemblances.
In a sense this may be true, but only in a superficial sense; the real issue is between the personal self as a social entity and the crowd.
The general, abstract, andsuperficial come to be exalted at the expense of that which is unique and personal.
It is indispensable as an auxiliary and a reserve, but as such only, and on condition that the general, superficial culture is accompanied by one or more sections of intensive culture.
They are two states, each of which has but a superficial knowledge of the other, and the flesh which thought always represents to itself as eternal is certain of dissolution.
Moral discord can be cured only by radical and not by superficial remedies.
Now the Signale and other superficial papers may abuse them as they please.
Before and behind all such superficial considerations, however, I suspect that early in his career the idea had taken root in him, right or wrong as it may have been, that to visit England would not further his artistic development.
A superficialknowledge of languages rather accentuates than removes limitations, multiplies mistakes and embitters them.
The matter is more difficult than a superficial Utilitarianism perceives.
Beyond the superficial utilitarian comparison of the two classes we have to consider also the welfare of society as a whole.
Habits graduate from the essential processes which constitute life rather than maintain it, and which are, for the most part, automatic, to the most superficial and transitory.
They occur singly and in groups, and are carried down to a depth of from seven to ten feet through the superficial gravel into the chalk, each pit, or cluster of pits, having a circular shaft for an entrance.
We do not know how copper was mined; the probabilities are that this was done in a very superficial way.
It is odd for me, who have so derided our Anglomaniacs and superficialimitators of the English, to come so hotly to the defence of England.
You have a superficial acquaintance with the facts.
In that way I accounted for the mere superficial change in him, at the time.
Once more I felt, what I had felt already, that there were hidden reserves of strength in the character of this innocent young fellow, which had utterly escaped my superficial observation of him.
I now looked back in amazement and self-reproach, at my own superficial estimate of the characters of the twin-brothers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "superficial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
