There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life.
Experience has shown us that virtue puts down only shallow roots in those who are there for just a short time
I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
A conditioned mind may be inventive; it may think up new ideas, new phrases, new gadgets; it may build a dam, plan a new society, and all the rest of it; but that is not creativity. Creativity is something much more than the mere capacity to acquire a technique. It is because this extraordinary thing called creativity is not in most of us that we are so shallow, empty, insufficient. And only the mind that is free can be creative.
But, in fairness to them, too, the popular song per se is really a pretty shallow medium to perform in.
Is your perception of 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine' so shallow that it's violated by dancing raisins?
One of the disadwantages of school and learning, he thought dreamily, was that the mind seemed to have the tendency too see and represent all things as though they were flat and had only two dimensions. This, somehow, seemed to render all matters of intellect shallow and worthless.
If our shallow, self-critical culture sometimes seems to lack a sense of the numinous or spiritual it's only in the same way a fish lacks a sense of the ocean.
The lips know only shallow tunes
I have a really shallow idea about what Australia is.
Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime-if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more-was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter shallow, superficial romance, where the top priority was how beautiful a person was on the outside.
Honestly, I'm a shallow performer. I just go with the text and feel my way around it. There's not a whole lot of shaping.
There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!
Shallow believers prefer a shallow God.
There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.
It sounds deeply shallow, but for brief spells every member of the public can be fascinating.
The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching.
There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.
Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.
Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder