Word: shallow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matter." She asked me what I thought about death. I dodged the question. I could have given her the drop-going-back-to-the-ocean line, but I mostly wanted her to talk about it. Besides, all that trippy theorizing and intellectual speculation about death is, after all, pretty shallow compared with the feeling you get at the most unlikely moments that you, too, are going home to that big ocean one of these days. With that intense witch of a girl, surrounded by that awesome desert and those miles and miles of highway, and those screaming blasts...
...terms of raw talent, the Eagles can't quite match Harvard, B. C. has only one line that can skate with the Crimson, an untested and shallow defense, and instability in the goal. But it has the ability to throw Harvard off its style and there is always the Snooker fight talk. It may just be another overtime game...
...complex personality. In one gambling house de Witt, hunting "the Great Unknown," is distracted by the sight of an extraordinary woman, the Countess Tolst. He leaves the card table to walk to the couch on which she reposes. In two minutes Lang gives us her soul. We see no shallow temptress, no abstract sentimental heroine. The countess is sophisticated and very intelligent; she has come to watch the colorful characters of the casino because polite society no longer interests her. Yet her sophistication and present boredom do not preclude intense love. We feel the truth of this character...
...When this country cries out for a unifying force that can only come with thoughtful and perceptive leadership, Mr. Agnew responds with shallow invective and inflammatory theatrics...
...many books. How long did it take Hua T'o [the father of Chinese medicine] to learn what he knew?" Mao, who has succeeded in destroying the Chinese educational system in order to radicalize it, has this to say: "Schools are small tombs with great evil emanations and shallow ponds with many snapping turtles...