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On a surface level, Sapio looks a lot like Tinder .
And I don't mean at the surface level of thought.
"On a surface level, it sounds quite valid," he said.
I have a very vague surface level awareness of Metallica.
The improvements you are seeing here are at the surface level.
This is what could achieve that which surface-level regulation can't.
His primary interest, he said, is capturing her surface-level appearance.
On a surface level, it was pretty simple: balsamic dressing, not caesar.
Even more important than design language are the surface-level hardware upgrades.
It's worth emphasizing at the outset that these are surface-level tweaks.
The Walking Dead has never really touched sexual violence beyond surface level.
At the surface level, Pixel Buds are Google's answer to Apple's AirPods.
"We didn't want this to be tokenistic or surface-level," he explains.
"We didn't want this to be tokenistic or surface-level," he explains.
They touched on racism in a way that wasn't just surface level.
But dig beyond those surface-level pleasures, and there's not enough there there.
The text it generates has surface-level coherence but no long-term structure.
"The major problem with it is it's all surface-level modeling," he said.
But it pays to have frank conversations that go deeper than surface level.
It's also the most superficial, but let's attend to this surface level first.
In the end fashion doesn't go deep, it sits on the surface level.
"Ideology will always be a surface-level justification for conflict," he told me.
But garbage patches only provide a surface-level glimpse of the issue — literally.
There's a kind of surface-level understanding of him as just a hardcore gangster.
"The differences, in regards to the visuals, feel surface level to me," says Zork.
The second Surface level is at night, with a red tinge to the sky.
And crown fires are much more intense and spread faster than surface-level blazes.
It will recede dramatically, and its already shallow surface level will drop 20 feet.
It really does want to engage with its subject matter beyond the surface level.
On a surface level, it sure looks like Oldman is working harder than Chalamet.
Retconning characters into surface-level LGBTQ relationships is often a red flag for queerbaiting.
You'll also at least have a surface level understanding of how computer hardware communicate.
Even on a surface level the current crop of confusing consent mazes look problematic.
At least on a surface level, it looks and sounds like it should work.
"These struggles are not against pipelines more than at the surface level," says Foytlin.
What emerged as you dug in past the surface-level mythology of the gulag?
At no point does he dig deeper than surface level critiques of the establishment.
That's what's so great about Tyranny—its choices aren't about surface level moral decisions.
" The touring lifestyle was especially unmooring: "Your connection to other people becomes surface level.
Where Tchaikovsky's concerto dazzles with surface-level pyrotechnics, Mozart's calls for more understated virtuosity.
But the conversations, which sometimes stay surface level, also let people off the hook.
We've gotten to a level of research so that it's not surface-level coverage.
Surface level conversations won't satisfy us on Saturday when intelligent Mercury sextiles powerful Pluto.
They should, like regular cars, be able to be understood at a surface level.
They said they discussed their debt before the wedding, but only on a surface level.
It's an image that offers, on a surface level, physical identifiers that racialize the character.
In my friendships, I have a strong tendency to keep discussions on a surface level.
You also manage to comment on more surface level societal ills, like what's going politically.
One of the big questions in Westworld is what's beneath the surface-level theme park.
Or, more likely, I know how to use it but only at a surface level.
The sea's surface level is dropping at a rate of about 4 feet per year.
"Men are starting to see skin care as more than just surface-level," Pollak says.
On a surface level, it's a happy ending for a person who didn't get one.
Everything is kind of surface level for the most part when you listen to music.
In general, the viewing experience of "Last Christmas" is best left at the surface level.
It's very surface-level: hip-hop as a culture rather than as a musical genre.
Ordinary people contain valuable thoughts and ideas, but they're not often stored at surface level.
Surface level attachment does not create the fulfillment that all human beings eventually look for.
Your first instinct may be to inquire about the company values from a surface level.
"At the surface level there is a lot of competition in this space," Tan admits.
Pete Olson's (R-Texas) bill slowing down the regulatory timeline for surface-level ozone pollution.
On a surface level, the House Judiciary Committee's resolution establishes procedures for an impeachment inquiry.
Our phone conversations had been deep, but now we talked only about surface-level topics.
It's heartbreaking and disappointing to see how my relationship was depicted as something only surface level.
Trouble is, dirt, rocks, and other surface-level contaminants make it hard to study the stuff.
And what am I carrying around that I'm not necessarily thinking about on the surface level?
But whether Clarke is lying a lot or a little, Tickled has more surface-level problems.
Do you think Hollywood is getting the memo or just doing it at a surface level?
Of course, we're only seeing the surface level of things, so I could always be wrong.
But none of those surface-level bells and whistles will be what makes Charmed 2.0 soar.
That's the question that The Kindergarten Teacher — on a surface level at least — seeks to address.
However, what was most impactful for me was something a bit more surface level: Black beauty.
The result is an intriguing series that goes beyond the surface-level coverage of the genre.
On a very surface level of watching [the show], he's pixie dust and yellows and brights.
Scientists have said that there is no way they can observe Antarctic glaciers from surface level.
Podiatrists handle topical/surface-level and surgical problems with the foot and many are paid generously.
Yet it was the composer's way of combining these surface-level traits that proved most memorable.
But I always felt that they only at a very surface level dealt with Black identity.
It's still — I don't want to say superficial, it's not superficial — but it's still surface-level.
Maybe you're skeptical about this kind of surface-level touristic immersion in a complex musical culture.
" When it came to Spacey's behavior on the set, Egerton said, "On the surface level, he's flirty.
His use of sequins and glitter bring a surface-level attraction to each piece, inviting deeper interpretations.
It looks like Justin Bieber approves of Kanye West's style … on more than just a surface level.
What Nixon had once dismissed as surface-level "gimmicks" Ailes recognized as the future of American politics.
What good does it do to just point out the surface-level absurdity of rent-a-foreigners?
It sabotages the genre's truly timeless aspects, stretching out surface-level tropes like an ill-fitting skin.
Kimmy Schmidt's first season clicked because its characters had plenty to offer beyond their surface-level absurdity.
Often, surface-level perception of this complex region throws off policymakers, political leaders and the public alike.
The two men do have their surface-level similarities, be it their ardent followings and nationalist impulses.
When she wore an actual message, she later denied that a surface-level reading carries any meaning.
The series' tentative jabs at exploring race relations in Georgian England are unfortunately surface-level, at best.
The story is vague and surface level, but heightens the visceral experience of otherwise standard endless runner mechanics.
Samreth asks us to not accept the surface-level stories and to not be wooed by the legends.
It's got to work on a surface level — this is just a prologue to the movie I'm watching.
There wasn't much—just surface-level blog posts with cloying resolutions and cursory links to mental health sites.
With these fairly surface-level relationships, donors could flee if he fails to prove himself on bigger stages.
As a result of moments like this, Life of Kylie feels almost strict in its surface-level content.
First, at the surface level, Mari is issuing a rallying cry via iPhone to all of her followers.
That communal relatability was part of the reason SpongeBob memes proliferated past the average meme's surface-level reaction.
On the surface level, WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, looks to have a pretty big security flaw.
On a surface level, that feeling comes from the fact that Apple had a lot to talk about.
Sure, Scorpio's symbol of a Scorpion is easily dismissed as a surface-level representation of a complex sign.
On a surface level, Ford's treatment was kinder and gentler than what Hill faced from senators in 1991.
At this time, my acne was very surface level — lots of small little pimples, mostly on my forehead.
They add to the film's intrigue and desire to draw out something deeper than surface-level criminal banter.
Some critics (like me) took issue with the movie's surface-level tribute to diversity that's only skin-deep.
Davis commands the screen when she pops up, but Sandy hardly becomes more than this surface-level archetype.
But these puzzles often appear to be either lacking significance, or so surface-level as to be pointless.
And Democrats said the shifts were surface-level, doing little to change the partisan course of the trial.
"What that message does is it reduces fandom to a very surface-level metric on Spotify," she said.
Uber absolutely tried to cover up or "Band-Aid" the issue through surface-level fixes from the beginning.
As with most speeches of this kind, it touched on a lot of subjects at the surface level.
Eventually, the report veers into a surface-level dismantling of Ansari's comedic persona in conjunction with Grace's account.
This is another reason why boardroom quotas may not work — they can easily operate at a surface level.
Chalk that up to jealousy or just to old-man grumpiness — but whatever you settle on, it's surface-level.
Buoys can provide measurements of the storm at the surface level, but they are sparsely located and often unreliable.
And this is just the most surface level explanation of how deep these parallels between sound and science run.
Neither film goes beyond surface level to examine systemic racism, or white privilege, and how that affects power dynamics.
But these are all just surface level things, as those of us who have delved into the scene know.
It produces text that has surface-level fluency, but which usually misses the deeper meaning of words and sentences.
Once he saw a way in beyond the surface-level horror, he signed on as a writer and director.
And it makes every other standard approach of picking out hair color and skin tone look comically surface level.
I, however, am surface-level deep and focus on aesthetics… He whips me into shape and we compromise, though.
It starts off fairly surface-level, with rape threats and insults like "slut" being thrown around in Kat's mentions.
These sequences are unquestionably, on a surface level, fan service, but they're also the best scenes in the movie.
But could our go-to, surface-level reassurances be sending the wrong message, potentially doing more harm than good?
The episode—banal, surface-level, but most importantly price-obsessed—already reflects how some investors and speculators view Bitcoin.
The anecdote, while quirky and comical at surface level, sheds light on the chaos that consumed Theranos' final stretch.
There's just so much going on, especially for a song that's kinda slow and meandering on its surface level.
But outside of the surface level articles I had read about her, I had not done my own homework.
"High-capacity efficient transit corridors are definitely the most efficient way to use that surface-level space," he added.
There are plenty of surface-level similarities between the men, like a penchant for populist nationalism and ardent followings.
The second season of Narcos: Mexico wants to make a point about consequences, at least on a surface level.
Discovering an affordable version of Differin in my mid-twenties helped me manage surface-level bumps within two days.
Their story stays shallow, surface-level, and sentimental, with most of the focus on Jojo's coming-of-age story.
Mr. Stone has said any contact he had with Russians represented only surface-level exchanges with no broader import.
I valet parked easily in a surface-level lot just next door and made my way into the lobby.
People were longing for relationships that have meaning and the experience of belonging rather than just surface-level relationships.
The real test for the game is whether or not it possesses depth to match its surface-level flair.
"I barely told her the surface-level details of what he did, only that he had touched me," S. said.
Looking at this past week, one thing is clear: competition is good for consumers — at least on the surface level.
"But you also don't want to respond to the surface level features of your partner's passive-aggressive behavior," he says.
The racism is much more surface-level in Fukunaga and Palmer's iteration of It than in the version in theaters.
He has a surface-level-at-best understanding of most policies, so going in for arcane policy discussions doesn't work.
They warrant more than a surface-level investigation and a punishment that goes beyond just a slap on the wrist.
All of this is to say, don't push play expecting a cut-and-dry narrative with a surface-level interpretation.
While these two shows might sound similar on a surface level, they're not exactly identical — and that's a good thing.
Some elements have aged badly in the real world, particularly its often stereotypical and surface-level depictions of mental illness.
But it's all surface level, and Far Cry 5 never deals with any of these themes in any notable way.
While the surface level plot is about figuring out what happened, the answers always remain inscrutable — inviting only more questions.
On the surface level, affected iPhones show a flickering gray bar at the top of the screen and unresponsive touchscreens.
But his aides have not briefed reporters on the content of the discussion beyond a surface-level list of topics.
A surface-level solution to this privacy dilemma would be for people to decouple their online lives from these companies.
While the term "super gonorrhea" might, at surface level, sound quite funny, there's a much darker side to this story.
This is evident even on the surface level, even in the absence of water in the Los Angeles Aqueduct Monument.
I always wish for a resurgence of a sort of academic body of work that goes beyond surface level thoughts.
But beyond surface-level camaraderie, the study examines whether handshaking actually promotes cooperation when parties' incentives are aligned or opposed.
What's striking about these images, he said, is that for the first time, significant surface-level details can be seen.
Elite media and water cooler dissection of this phenomenon seem to begin and end with a surface level demographic analysis.
Person of low social class sees the surface-level glamour of the mob lifestyle and dedicates his life to it.
At surface level it's sensible that Peter, a science nerd randomly imbued with superhuman strengths, is still coming into his own.
While these solutions provide surface-level responses to the complexities surrounding fake news, it is imperative to add a human element.
"This is an agency that just does surface-level or perfunctory investigations on all of these complaints," McKinney told BuzzFeed News.
Since then, Musk has grown increasingly frustrated with surface-level transportation, as evidenced by his tunnel project dubbed the Boring Company.
That is the surface level of the book, the purely descriptive part, the part with which many photographers would be content.
Another surface-level reason is that Apple announced a few features that are quite similar to products Google is working on.
Dog Parkers are also fitted with a UVC sanitation light, which handles surface level cleaning of the Dog Parker between visits.
On a surface level, you might go to a city in China and see all the same stores you see here.
Backstreet Boys gives us surface level subject matter (love, loss, heartache, fucking, dancing, more fucking) but set to genre mixing sounds.
According to Facebook's help page, the suggestions come from some pretty common, surface-level data like mutual friends and school networks.
In 2011, temperatures at sea surface level off the coast of Western Australia reached more than 2 degrees Celsius above average.
And, yes, money helps — I earn a salary adequate to buy me surface level credibility in the eyes of American society.
There was no detailed discussion of the nuances of immigration policy, and the Medicare-for-all debate remained near surface level.
Overt impugning of masculinity is still only the most surface level at which ideas about gender play out in strategic thinking.
Even though people may realize our stories are valuable, it remains difficult to be seen or respected past the surface level.
But the moisturizing effects aren't surface-level; the serum is designed to increase the moisture levels of your skin over time.
This is a brilliant transit for convincing others to support your goals, research difficult topics, or get beyond surface-level conversations.
But that's just the surface level connection and it obscures the backdrop of ongoing political warfare against Latinos in the state.
Ultrasound sensors see deeper than the other two, which focus on the surface level, and are more expensive and thus rarely used.
Interestingly, this is similar to the constraints we've seen in AI text generation, which captures surface-level coherency not long-term structure.
Surely, no one would need an explainer on one of the most enjoyably surface-level sci-fi analogies of all time, right?
After all, Burch's actions have only a surface-level effect on the ostensible heroes; he's the character equivalent of a speed bump.
When you start to put in that care and effort, you will love yourself, because it's not just a surface level thing.
"It's heartbreaking and disappointing to see how my relationship was depicted as something only surface level," the business owner wrote on Instagram.
It uses its seemingly surface-level story about country dances and true love to tell a much deeper allegory of America itself.
A thin, surface-level critique would be that Dear White People is about privileged Ivy League students vocalizing think pieces about microaggression.
Stashing it in temporary, surface-level containers works for now, but this problem exists on a geologic timescale—and requires geologic solutions.
As anyone with even a surface-level knowledge of Giggs will know, his ascent has been far from easy, or even usual.
Those regulations set limits on carbon pollution at power plants, establish federal control over small waterways and limit surface-level ozone emissions.
Hers is a surface-level feminist stance that gets more difficult to parse the deeper you go beneath that pop culture veneer.
A new camera in the ball pit is surface level with the balls so people look immersed in a sea of plastic.
And in truth, the Academy may be demonstrating a short-sighted or surface-level understanding of its purported inclusivity in this category.
After two weeks conducting a surface-level security review of the DTEN D5 and D7 connected displays, the team found five bugs.
You can't escape the recipes for cozy meals, and as surface-level as it sounds, home-cooked meals are laced with nostalgia.
I wonder whether the movie's attempts to celebrate our differences are rendered merely surface-level by what it dropped from the plot.
Much of what passes for "creative" in the workplace seems suspiciously surface-level (beanbag chairs at work, unlimited sushi lunches and the like.).
Yet her script is direct to the point of didactic, offering only surface-level insight into an event that understandably traumatized her family.
These surface-level tweaks are the first changes you'll see after installing iOS 211, but Apple's also strengthened its core apps and services.
They are typically too long while somehow also remaining surface-level and not going into much detail about the plans and proposals mentioned.
While it is easy to focus on the surface-level absurdity of the phenomenon, the economic realities underneath the spectacle remain enormously complicated.
The hardness of this layer may explain why only one of Philae's legs was able to anchor itself to this lower surface level.
Instead, Big Little Lies deep dives into the psyche of these women and reveals that they are more than their surface-level stereotypes.
Weirdly enough ... they've posed together at events before, and there doesn't seem to be any surface-level bad blood between the two stars.
Small talk is surface level, the conversation won't be important to you tomorrow, let alone in a month or a year from now.
The characters and the language, they're really speaking to you, and they're revealing a lot more than having these very surface level conversations.
The donor class, people like me, should start taking an active role in fixing structural inequality, not rewarding ourselves for surface-level charity.
Seriously Funny: From the Desk of Jon Stewart offered the intellectual antipode of the FBI exhibition, but it was just as surface-level.
"There's not a discourse that's present among opinion-holding elites that even invites" discussion of anything more than surface-level reform, Perlstein said.
Schur and Jones's commentary on the way we construct our lives online and how superficial it all can be is surface-level stuff.
It's rare but it occurs when divers ascend too quickly and do not give the body time to slowly adjust to surface-level pressure.
Beyond the poll's surface-level silliness, however, it also appears to reveal some insights into how audiences correlate the ideas of "goodness" and beauty.
If people are reading only the surface-level information, it's easy to miss something that may be off about a story or an outlet.
The surface-level similarities of a sneaker-wearing, snapchatting age group also feeds into a false narrative of social mobility unique to our generation.
In New York City, one bomb blast detonated and caused mostly surface-level injuries, while officials believe another in the city was inadvertently disabled.
The surface level of Lake Bracciano, about 30 km (19 miles) north of Rome, has dropped by about one metre, revealing dry sand spits.
This is probably naïve, but I'm hoping the ineffectiveness of this surface-level alignment with noble causes dawns on the world's collected brands soon.
Critics of the Obama administration's tightened standards on surface-level ozone have endorsed a House package to reform how the government regulates the pollutant.
Even if it's just a sentence, give me the most surface-level sense of who you are and why we might work well together.
At a barely beneath-the-surface level, Trumpism is about restoring old hierarchies: the powerful over the powerless, whites over minorities, men over women.
Today the word can tend to connote some surface-level sheen at once bold and unattainable — an antidote to gravity, artifice without the art.
But Wiener's focus on mostly surface-level descriptions often reduces people to a collection of consumer choices or data points – not unlike predictive advertising.
While it bears surface-level similarities to "What Belongs to You," it is not even really a novel, nor is it a story collection.
As we dig a little deeper, however, it's clear that there are certain details in his execution that made the surface-level advantages possible.
What happens if instead of focusing on developing deeper cognitive proficiency in any language, we focus on the surface level of one specific language?
But this is much more than a surface-level study of a popular musician, said Lynn Sacco, the associate professor who teaches the course.
Those tools, Cohen said, make Our Revolution more potent than people may realize if they're paying attention only to traditional or surface-level politics.
Ideology will always be a surface-level justification for conflict — people come up with narratives to justify whatever they're doing in the political world.
"It was specifically off of very surface level things," she says, observing that Kuhn was "literally the male version" of her at that time.
But Hall is actively interested in documenting "the soul and the grit" of the city, and sometimes that stuff is coarse on the surface level.
It's the culmination of a tension built throughout the show, which is otherwise tricky to identify beneath our surface-level fear of ghosts and ghouls.
Sounds fancy, but in reality nothing changes at the surface level — the app will send your messages securely over an end-to-end encrypted connection.
The fear, of course, is that Hollywood will copy the most obvious surface-level things about Deadpool, thus producing more obnoxious films about wisecracking superheroes.
Luckily, the recent profitability of surface-level body positivity and corresponding content boom has allowed a few true gems to shine among the costume jewelry.
Zuckerberg testified before the joint Senate judiciary and commerce committee today, capitalizing on the lack of knowledge of the politicians and their surface-level questions.
Guests would take an elevator down from the surface level into the main lobby, which would also have a restaurant, event rooms and observation areas.
But apart from a few heartbreaking moments of revelation, Raphina is a surface-level character whose talents focus on makeup, hairstyling, and enigmatic model expressions.
The authors of the report recommended a nationwide web of interlinked state networks, each comprised of surface-level observation stations — the titular network of networks.
Like a duck on water, little appears to be happening at surface level; meanwhile, the would-be candidates are paddling furiously just out of sight.
That's why this new wave of bands leaning on this style is so moving, because it does offer some surface level comforts, it complicates it.
Some of them have succeeded by virtue of being conventionally attractive, or good at video games, or in possession of some other surface-level attribute.
It's about the evils of capitalism at a very surface level, and how he's pitted against a good, honest cop who wants to bust him.
I think even Ramy [Youssef] would admit that he has more freedom than his sister in the show, even in a very surface-level sense.
In fact, everything we know from even the most surface-level study of Trump's 71 years on Earth suggests he absolutely, 100% said "shithole countries."
In an interview with Elle, she explained how her comments in the press used to be very surface-level as a means of self protection.
I always felt like there was some writerly unmet-need-driven Bad Mommy anger operating there, beyond the surface-level attack on pre-feminism housewifery.
Now, there is a surface-level irony in a department responsible for developing housing being hauled up for developing its own housing rather too well.
Pretty much anyone can take criticism at a surface level, but being able to really engage with and grow from it is a rare trait.
Nor is it something we can chalk up to coming climate catastrophe, necessarily—rising surface-level temperatures do not substantially affect how hot stations get, either.
A company's DNA comes to life both on a surface level by how they look, but also how the brand interacts with people in the world.
We can extend this idea further: surface-level characteristics are often times just a proxy for deeper attributes, so why not go straight to the root?
Wiped out from late nights and a lot of surface-level conversations on the job, she craves deeper connections, but also needs time alone to recharge.
But a mixture of surface level winds and high-altitude wind trajectories pointed to tomorrow being a more favorable launch opportunity, so we're going with that.
It's reasonable to assume that Slate and Evans didn't break up because they couldn't get past some surface-level differences like their favorite movies or hobbies.
I hoped that if I was more selective I might have a better shot at meeting someone who would want to go beyond surface-level conversations.
In theory, such a system would fill the informational gaps left by top-down apparatus, like satellites, and those unaccounted for by existing surface-level stations.
Let's stop thinking of technology as a trendy tattoo — a surface-level commitment best kept on a conspicuous but not often used part of the body.
HOUSE SAYS 'NO' TO OZONE RULE: The House on Wednesday voted to delay new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules governing surface-level ozone standards, or smog.
Your goal is to build deeper relationships with real context, and that requires knowing how to have conversations that go far beyond surface level small talk.
Whether in private groups or on my personal page, I've learned so much from being vulnerable on a platform designed for cheery surface-level life updates.
A robot vacuum or stick vacuum can clean your floors on the surface level, but to really get a deep scrub you need a carpet cleaner.
When they lifted a sewer cover at surface level 40 minutes later, they were inside the barricaded campus and set off looking for their trapped friends.
His criticism of the war reflects a surface-level look at the conflict: The war was obviously going badly, so Trump said it was a failure.
Yet despite the surface-level similarities, A Year In The Life doesn't quite feel like the same show I remembered, re-watched, and yearned for more of.
I was still right on the larger point: AirPods did end up having an outsized cultural impact for something so small and uninteresting on the surface level.
The false translation received applause at the Oscar ceremony for an admirable sentiment, but his quiet subversion illustrates that advocating unity on a surface level isn't enough.
So if you're into comics and you want to see that, you gotta go beyond the surface level for that diversity unfortunately, because it absolutely is there.
We know little to nothing about Ivanka's comedic skills, but we'd argue that her carefully curated, surface-level persona proves she has the secrecy thing down pat.
On surface level, it was a high-risk shopping decision: final sale, non-returnable, and tight next-day shipping to make it in time for the wedding.
There are a few surface level enhancements, most notably to Safari and Photos, but the fundamental updates to the operating system are almost entirely below the surface.
Because it seems like, on a surface level, the company with the best possible domain name for such a service already proved that the idea doesn't work.
The EPA sets limits on surface-level ozone and has a "good neighbor" provision to help states that struggle with smog caused by emissions from other states.
Likes are only "surface-level," while metrics like engagement and click-throughs of URLs in posts show more about the relationship an influencer has with their audience.
If you limit your progress to the surface level, you will end up undoing the progress you've made and reset back to what has become your normal.
You can adjust the height of the stand itself as well, from as tall as 8.4 inches above the desk all the way down to surface level.
Sure, it hurt to get smacked a bit, but the pain felt very surface level, while the pleasurable sensations were felt longer and deeper within my body.
The breadth of the film sacrifices any chance of engaging with the question of artificial intelligence and its implications at anything deeper than the absolute surface level.
Even if you're not typically a dog person, the presence of a dog provides solutions to some of the surface-level anxiety triggers involved in social gatherings.
But series devotees had told me that the real joy would be found in preparation, which was something that I'd only ever done at a surface level.
Dorsey said that much of the commentary around financial innovations like bitcoin is very surface level, and that bitcoin research could have wide-ranging and "seminal" implications.
But I think, as it became more apparent that I wasn't just going to be some aloof person who was fine with surface-level conversations, he panicked.
And despite the obvious surface-level disparities—age, skin color, points in their careers—the two head coaches shared plenty in common besides their first names and initials.
Part of me wants to respond to those facts—just a surface level survey of a black hole of Bad Shit—by giving in to my escapist impulses.
It's a surface level portrait that some might find satisfying if they think a Tidal subscription and a love of Kanye equate to an understanding of Black culture.
On a surface level, while playing similar games might help showcase preferences for one approach or another, what it's really useful for is building vocabulary for those preferences.
I knew only the very surface level of those facts, yet it truly dawned on me that I wasn't safe from such a horrifying thing happening to me.
And finally, we wanted to wrap up with a few of the more surface-level trends we noticed at the VidCon expo hall and in the "community" sessions:
Though many may know of Abloh, considering he was a high profile creative partner of Kanye West's for years, their knowledge may not go deeper than surface level.
White House officials warned Tuesday that the Obama administration opposes a House GOP bill to delay implementation of a new federal standard on surface-level ozone, or smog.
Some industry officials, though, have said he needs to expand his platform beyond surface-level promises to, for example, help coal miners in distressed parts of the country.
But the attempt never goes beyond the most surface-level homage, resulting in something herky-jerky and listless, incapable of doing anything interesting with its eye-catching premise.
I don't know if there's a director who captures soul-soothing warmth and tranquility better than Meyers, who wrings genuine emotion even from her more surface-level stories.
To have a fully balanced social diet, we need a little bit of everything: Deep connections, surface-level chats, and alone time, Hall found in a recent study.
You might think that all the attention to the humanness of fakery — to the regularity and reliability of surface-level inauthenticity — would make everyone seem shallow and false.
"Most people die from sharks pulling them down and drowning them," she said, but Johnson was at surface level the entire time, breathing out of her snorkel tube.
The best they can do is highlight the basic inequality they see, but because they can't feel it, "The Gang Turns Black" is just a surface-level experiment.
No prerequisites are required, but we may suggest doing a little surface level research before starting the class, as Dr. Dunbar gets pretty scientific with some of his explanations.
What sets the The Blanchards' world apart from the Preaker-Crellins is that The Act is missing the surface-level glamour purposefully radiating from Adora's towering manor of horrors.
Queer-baiting refers to the marketing technique in which creators use queer sexuality in a teasing surface level way rather than embracing it to get attention and make money.
This is a super simple way to make sure you're at least somewhat on the same page as someone and gets the surface-level things out of the way.
Yes, that conflict is between two completely surface-level political philosophies of a more open society and a more rigid one, but it's there, and it's impossible to escape.
A person can tell you that they identify as Republican or Democrat, religious or not, but that only provides a surface-level understanding of what values they might hold.
Braithwaite has a lot of fun playing with these surface-level characteristics, masterfully directing the reader's assumptions about both Korede and Ayoola to mask their individual propensity for anger.
On a surface level, Halt and Catch Fire is about the rise of computers in the late '80s, and the lives of a few fictionalized people who built them.
"We're doing a water challenge to see how much water we can drink in a day, because pimples signify more than surface level issues, but something internal," she said.
Aglit Italy, which opened its NoHo storefront in May, specializes in luxury laces, a concept so surface-level preposterous it seems like material for a Funny or Die sketch.
The surface-level ripple effect of Teague's injury is that Minnesota will need to replace a dangerous pick-and-roll presence who can get into the paint at will.
These accounts are usually true on a surface level, but in another sense it's important to remember that this is the same system that allowed Trump's candidacy to flourish.
The benefit of using this device is that it opens up your pores and infuses serum from the masks deep into your skin, taking the benefits below surface level.
"There's a difference between living here and being of and with the people who live here and caring about people more than just on a surface level," she said.
Yet, despite that surface-level commentary, the movie finds its footing when it dares to pose tough questions about female allyship, and how it can fail to protect us.
The press release is almost too knowing; perhaps editor-in-chief David Velasco is making a nod to the criticisms of any transformations at Artforum being merely surface level.
I mean, there are some kind of surface-level things and some things that I think we could talk about and I'd love to talk to him about it.
It tends to reduce a series to its most obvious elements, setting aside the considerations of theme or meaning in favor of the most surface-level plot and character stuff.
Feminism is already enough of a deeply misunderstood ideology — and that's even before dragging the Kardashian-Jenner family and the fraught, surface level discourse that surrounds them into the fray.
Waiting to Respawn Based on a surface-level reading of the research, it would seem that older players are just doomed to be owned for the rest of their life.
Mental health professionals told CNBC that these apps are helpful for managing surface-level problems, but that the scientific research is inconclusive on whether they can replace in-person visits.
There will surely be criticism of the aforementioned twist (again, don't Google!), which does — on a surface level, at least — undermine the message that the film is trying to convey.
Considering everything the surface-level sci-fi drama actually is, the only way to fairly assess the Kinnaman-led show is by breaking down all the genres it actually covers.
It's a sadistic "peace and love" collective with a surface-level adherence to apocalyptic scripture, full of drug addicts who are — as an actual game mechanic — controlled with rock music.
While it sounds simple on a surface level, learning it is tough, and there are sequential belt levels you have to overcome to become a full-fledged Six Sigma master.
The probe, which was built in cooperation with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will measure the ocean's surface level, to help forecasters better predict major weather events like hurricanes.
Press coverage of the cousins has so far been mostly surface level; about their fashion, the drama on their shows, a reflection of the kind of fame they have now.
Even the points of contention on tax reform were largely papered over during the meeting, senators said, in favor of a more surface-level discussion of areas of common interest.
At a surface level, it may seem like there aren't any non-oil aspects of Saudi Arabia upon which a strategic ally like the United States could build a relationship.
Daredevil bored me, despite the surface-level fun of a lawyer running around NYC beating up bad guys, and then it got too silly to even pretend to take seriously.
On a surface level, the film is a beautifully directed, tropical set, nostalgia-inducing piece that so happened to have Glover's musical alter ego, Childish Gambino's music soundtracking the story.
"Senator we run ads," was the almost startled response, as if the Facebook founder couldn't believe his luck at the not-even-surface-level political probing his platform was getting.
Unravel is another game where surface-level appeal is a given, but digging deeper into the experience, it isn't something to immediately drop whatever else you're playing right now for.
So a lot of lounge music, especially the uncomplicated nostalgia of 90s bands like Pink Martini, can feel a bit wallpaper-y, a surface-level pleasantness hiding very little underneath.
Nicky knows he's innocent and about Beck and Joe's more surface-level relationship troubles, so it would have made sense for him to urge the police to investigate the boyfriend.
Even on the surface level of names, When I Get Home sounds more comfortable than A Seat at the Table: The hometown references cement the idea of the personal being political.
A lot of folks have such a surface level understanding of the Asian diaspora, so the access point of 'Where are you REALLY from' feels like I can never be American.
The elements of Mad Men that other shows have copied — the '60s setting and the period clothes and sets — are some of the least interesting, most surface-level things about it.
But where Sparrow (or even The Lone Ranger's much-derided Tonto) is the real deal, a character grounded in something deeper than the surface-level whimsy, the Hatter is all frippery.
Capcom's own videos on each weapon were surface level, so I turned to YouTube video tutorials from past games and Monster Hunter: World preview content from YouTube video makers like Arekkz.
They recycle well-known material — say, the fact that climate change is pernicious and that there are engineering solutions at hand (Nye) — and draw on surface-level history and biography (Mlodinow).
Her understanding of why 2015 went awry seems to be surface-level — as if addressing every criticism we've had of her will help usher in her comeback a little more smoothly.
Watching The Real L Word gives me a sense of queer friendship and sex and drama—a surface-level exploration to be sure, but something I haven't yet found off-screen.
"At least at the surface level, companies in Silicon Valley are saying they want women and they want diversity," but the next challenge is getting firms to act on that, she said.
A lot of the events that follow push on with surface-level happenings that go with any shady night out; edibles, weird pickup boys, "thotty" happenings, and the whole "bad decision" extravaganza.
On a strictly surface level, the strangest thing about California, Edan Lepucki's 2014 novel—which became a runaway best-seller after Stephen Colbert's recommendation—was that the book's name wasn't already taken.
It feels typical — exploitative, like every other show using women's trauma for gruesome window dressing, surface level shock value or drama, and false stakes (yes, we're looking at you, Game of Thrones).
This offers a dynamic change in scale and encourages me to see this work as its own solar system, as if there is another universe below the surface level of these paintings.
At the surface-level, data on things like rainfall, wind, and humidity was being collected from state to state in a chaotic, non-standardized fashion, using a hodgepodge of poorly coordinated networks.
This even-handed tone rang through many of the conference's presentations, with scholars serving up shade where it was due while avoiding falling into the lazy critic's trap of surface-level distaste.
A lot of things he'd say, you'd view as surface level and dumb, but if you really thought about his statements, they made a lot of sense, just with a different perspective.
And because for many, this country's admiration for its military members is surface-level at best and only awarded to specific types of men and women in uniform, controversy and backlash followed.
You have to have so much knowledge and experience to be able to effectively—you know, beyond just a surface level—handle a lot of what we talk about on the air.
The unfinished hallways, filled with vibrant posters of cartoon animals, are nothing but cheap diversions attempting to combat their true bareness, just surface-level platitudes meant to distract from its deep misery.
Which makes it seem fairly ridiculous that a professional pitcher can be felled by something as paltry and mundane as a finger blister—something that is, by definition, a surface-level injury.
Your best chance to get a glimpse into the fighter beneath the surface level technique will always be when their A game is complicated or stifled by natural attributes or tactical decisions.
These narratives about the divide between surface level illusion and a deeper reality have stayed with us over the millennia, although now the stories are often couched in the language of high technology.
The parallels between music and story are fairly surface-level here: the scene needs a disco track, and CJ & Company's song overtly references the violence that caps off our time in Les Inferno.
The "outrage machine" on the internet and in the media is often fed by a fixation on bite-sized, surface-level readings of cultural artifacts that don't take into account the fuller context.
But a 2017 film adopting the iconography of a character as historically problematic as Lara Croft should offer more than the surface-level shrug of LOL, that's just how games were back then!
My review of the first half-season liked some aspects of the show (particularly the acting) but found its attempts to dig into the world of high finance too surface-level and obvious.
Surface-level changes suggest otherwise — like the shift from a third-person perspective to first-person and the "torture porn" vibe of its backwoods horror tale — but fans can put their worries aside.
Eventually, I came across the Haruki Murakami short story[ the story that the film is based off of], and though it's not necessarily about anger on a surface level, it's connected to it.
While Precious Art offers enough catchy rock riffs to be enjoyed on a surface-level, to truly appreciate the record is to look past the jokes, the self-deprecation—and yeah, the boogers.
The surface-level pleasures of Ready Player One are abundant and crowd-pleasing, and Art3mis and Wade's journey is good, clean fun that nonetheless has big implications for the future of the OASIS.
My experiences with friendship has made me aware that many people only care for you on a surface level, but these experiences have also made me appreciate the real friends I do have.
In the beginning, this conflict may stay at the surface level but it is quite possible that it will delve more deeply into core issues related to the institution's real function and purpose.
What I get tired of is people thinking they understand the work and my purpose as an artist on a surface level without questioning why they have those associations in the first place.
The trees have thick bark that make them typically good at surviving surface level fires, but they can't survive the more intense fires that move through the canopy, like this region has seen.
"We have a lot of surface level servers like CentipedeCentral, but beneath that we've got a lot of private servers where we take the best meme creators and put them into a workshop," .
The second member of the House to endorse Sanders, Ellison — also the first Muslim-American Congress member — argued that the surface-level discord represented a healthy and necessary working out of underlying divisions.
"Jeff Sessions was very against cannabis, so to have Jeff Sessions not in the picture anymore on the surface level seems great for the industry," says Karson Humiston, founder of cannabis recruiting platform Vangst.
" Still, he explained, his interactions with Mack — a decade his junior — were largely surface level while they worked together: "I really didn't hang out with Allison but maybe a couple times throughout seven years.
As for the derisive tone of the phrase, I think it's a side effect of the larger problem, which is that many film critics (though not all) display a surface-level understanding of games.
"I was thinking about things that represent mobility and travel from more of a surface level — the costuming, the idea of moving around to identify certain aspects of leisure and the route," Adams said.
The only thing proven was that senators -- for the most part -- have nothing beyond the most basic and surface-level understanding of how Facebook works, what it does and the problems it presents societally.
"At a very surface level, mindfulness helps us with distraction," says Lori Brotto, professor of gynecology at the University of British Columbia, co-author of the study, and author of Better Sex Through Mindfulness.
Because the exhibition doesn't go beyond surface-level critique and illustration, it fails to compound the emotion inherent in such horrific events and doesn't manage to connect with the present in any meaningful way.
I'd since built relationships, albeit shallow ones, with several professionals I admired, yet I didn't have anyone I could turn to with the deeper-than-surface-level questions that constantly played in my head.
At surface level, it was a special-effects demonstration, a bonanza of texture and timbre: quavery drones, like an oscillating synthesizer; delicate ghost tones, hovering in flute range; sharp, plosive rivets of percussive airflow.
Despite the two families' surface-level attempts to form a loving mini society, Travis's affinity for the new family alarms Paul and sparks a steadily building firestorm of interfamilial tensions, mistrust, and growing dysfunction.
Despite its surface-level placidity, the Israeli feature "Working Woman" unfolds like a psychological thriller — a procedural that, as it tightens its grip, captures how workplace sexual harassment slowly takes over one woman's life.
Researchers Stephen Clarke and Dan Tomlinson looked at the effect of income on Trump's support — and, at a surface level, found a correlation between income in a particular area and support for Donald Trump.
While the News Feed can feel like a circus dominated by one-way broadcasts about surface-level themes and daily ephemera, Groups are more like a café where deeper discussion on esoteric topics can thrive.
That surface-level wise-guy mentality, even if Trump is unlikely to have ever been in a physical altercation of any consequence, does fit the in-real-life mobster mold—at least to a point.
At the surface level, this means you'll be able to run a Bash shell on Windows 10, without having to install a third-party interface like Cygwin, which many seasoned veterans remember as a nightmare.
More casual players can also dial down the difficulty and safely ignore these for the most part, dabbling in the RPG aspects with a more surface-level enjoyment that doesn't detract at all from gameplay.
"It's telling the story of how you can be attached to people that only have love for you from a surface level because of fears they may face," he says, in an email to Noisey.
The fact that Bush had these surface-level virtues have led some liberals and leftists to discover sympathy for Bush—but that just makes one wonder what these people really dislike about the current president.
And a surface-level look at the facts — the US withheld a payment $400 million in secret cash until Iran released US prisoners — confirms the narrative of the Obama administration making absurd concessions to Iran.
This exhibition brings together works by David Hockney and Vincent van Gogh that focus on rural scenes, and the two painters' shared themes and approaches are made immediately apparent, at least on a surface level.
"The thing about that is, I wanted to access something a lot deeper than I feel like those installations ever really get to, because they're tailored for a surface level interaction, a photograph," he explained.
Worse, the "singles bouncing in and out of love" genre has a tendency to immediately devolve into a conflictless "hangout sitcom," the sort of show that rarely pushes its characters beyond the most surface-level tension.
It's unlikely you have much in common with your node mates on a surface level, but you may very well share core values with each other, from how you define success to what you deeply fear.
It's not just the surface-level tech that's wonderfully different — Xiaomi also went out of its way to figure out how to hide things like the earpiece and proximity sensor that usually litter the top bezel.
The title, Logos, is a reference to the Greek concept of logic or reason, which on a surface level undersells the project of Chavez's lyrics, which occasionally take big concepts, but finds the humanity in them.
If you can get through the cringe-worthy meltdowns and surface-level romantic scenes, Nappily Ever After has something to offer in the way of exploring parents' responsibility in crafting their children's perception of their hair.
Most of the 'women in music' commentary the show offers is fairly surface-level for now, but if there's another season of I'm With the Band, it'd be cool to hear about this in more depth.
"A social movement is a reservoir of silent support and a surface level of active, vocal participation," says University of North Carolina sociologist Andrew Perrin, who's studied the political and cultural dimensions of Tea Party activism.
Sure, there's a gaming fest going on all week at the Marriott next to the convention center, but most of the actual gaming panels tend to be thin on the ground and a bit surface-level.
But despite the surface-level similarities, the duo left the capital feeling deeply transformed: "This trip changed the shit out of me, and I'm sure I can speak for Jey and say the same," reveals Esparza.
Because no company wants an app that looks identical to a competitor's, much of what Kraftful produces is built to be tailored to each company's branding — all the surface-level stuff, like iconography, fonts, colors, etc.
While even the most surface-level Archie Comics follower knows Josie wishes for a music career as big as Beyoncé's (she was the leader of the Pussycats, after all) Katy may be more of a mystery.
There's nothing an ad can (or intends to) do to ameliorate any of the actual problems that harm people's self-perception, but that doesn't stop brands from taking enormous credit for their newfound surface-level wokeness.
Sporting a reusable, rinseable filter and an easy-empty, bottom-release dirt cup, the WindTunnel 2 Rewind features three separate channels of suction that make it capable of eliminating both deeply embedded dust and surface-level debris.
You just don't have the mental energy to catch up on something you're already so far behind on when instead you can curl into a metaphorical ball and only let it graze you on the surface level.
Like, Flaco has no remorse if you look at it on the surface level, but after watching the film, I would hope you would see the sensitivity and the vulnerability that was also in somebody like that.
Sure, Codecademy, Code School and countless others offer a nice, surface-level understanding of what the tag does and the difference between a class and id in relation to CSS, but these are mere baby steps.
The goal is that the digging take place without any noticeable disturbance to anyone on the surface, and the dig site will be continually tested to make sure the surface level never shifts while it's in progress.
Well, as we've said, on a surface level there's not a huge difference between them at the moment—Chrome (Blink), Firefox (Gecko), and Safari (WebKit) all render most websites in very similar ways at very similar speeds.
Instead, artists who make these works favor aesthetic, surface-level intervention, which documents well for exhibition and (hopefully) sale later, upon return to an art-world setting, be it via a gallery or a coffee table book.
And because of the surface-level thrills each can offer, both hip-hop and martial arts films are often fetishized and misunderstood by those who don't make an effort to understand them within their own unique contexts.
Ellen's defense might make it seem like people were expecting her to shove Bush out of his box seat on sight, when in reality the majority of her dissenters aren't advocating against surface-level agreeability and politeness.
Although vastly outnumbered, the militants have used the urban terrain to their advantage, concealing car bombs in narrow alleys, posting snipers on tall buildings with civilians on lower floors and making tunnels and surface-level passageways between buildings.
The last thing a Black Mirror episode should feel—or any work of speculative fiction, really—is predictable and even antiquated, but "Striking Vipers" only gives a surface-level view of a subject that had much greater potential.
As the series went on, I wanted a more intimate story and not just fleeting moments of the homeless and white-collar workers interacting on a surface level — I was interested in the stories people wanted to share.
Islamic State has used the terrain to its advantage, concealing car bombs in narrow alleys, posting snipers on tall buildings with civilians on lower floors, and constructing underground tunnels and surface-level passageways between buildings to avoid detection.
But this doesn't have a ton to do with the season's ideas about womanhood, performance, and navigating spaces built by men (outside of the very surface-level idea of the network itself being a space built by men).
The entirety of Trump's plan to deport our way to prosperity flies in the face of both theory and evidence, but in the larger context of Trump's bragging on the economy it doesn't even make surface-level sense.
Current proposals instead present surface-level solutions that ignore the underlying root cause of the student debt crisis: the misalignment of expectations between schools (subject matter mastery) and their students (acquisition of skills to get a good job).
Inhofe also co-sponsored two amendments to delay an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule limiting the acceptable amount of surface level ozone and another to "ensure EPA adheres to existing regulatory standards" as laid out in the law.
Though this might sound negative, but a placebo effect, or a change in a person's symptoms without direct medical treatment, is a major player in many wellness methods as it can alleviate some surface-level symptoms and feelings.
They followed the formula of a rom-com on a surface level — aspirational jobs, fancy clothes, beautiful people — but they were made with a palpable contempt for both their characters and the people who enjoy watching romantic comedies.
That's partly because the "singles bouncing in and out of love" genre has a tendency to immediately devolve into a conflictless "hangout sitcom," the sort of show that rarely pushes its characters beyond the most surface-level tension.
It's a question most musicians are asked far too often and their answers rarely are often pretty surface level—of course a person that enjoys both twang and guitar solos is going to be big on Neil Young.
But the science behind the claims was impressive: It sends teensy, electrical wavelengths deep beneath the surface level of skin to boost collagen production (when used on the highest setting) and kill acne-causing bacteria (with the lower setting).
And being able to extract this sort of data, even with only a surface-level understanding, could be useful in a number of domains — from better search engines to software that digs through long documents for lawyers and doctors.
It's one of those topics that permeates the activist and lawmaker layer and engages the broader community at-large, but too often the discussion focuses on surface-level reform items while doing a disservice by not broaching deeper issues.
While the surface-level purpose of the game's narrative is to find main character Tim Goodman's father, who's gone missing in Ryme City, Creatures says the larger mystery for players to unravel is the origin of the titular character.
A surface level search such as this did not, of course, uncover any of the inconspicuously named or hidden groups attached to white nationalist hate groups—tactics which Hankes said he's seen employed by these groups to evade detection.
President Trump can't offer tangible gains for ordinary people by challenging elites, but he can offer a surface-level valorization of "the worker" and stoke anger at the alleged causes of national decline — migrants, bad trade deals, cosmopolitan globalists.
Atlanta, whether purposeful or not (though likely intentional, given Donald Glover's unorthodox nature) dissociates itself from its most surface-level audience (black folks) by neither pandering to white audiences nor to people of color, but by landing somewhere in the middle.
Are casual fans taking surface-level callbacks — Jakku looks like Tatooine, Starkiller Base is a giant Death Star, there's an interrogator droid off to the side in the scene where Poe Dameron gets tortured — and blowing them out of proportion?
Founded in 2015 by IIT Kharagpur graduates Pushkar Singh, Sudarshan Ravi and Ankit Parasher, Bangalore-based LetsTransport has surface-level comparisons with Uber and other on-demand services, as it pairs companies with trucks to carry out their last-mile distribution.
Part of that is due to how snarky the show's humor can be, easily lending itself to memes; but another part of it is due to how the show's messages are never preachy, even as they go beyond surface-level treatment.
If you disregard the surface-level imagery, many elements of Eden's Gate feel less like a right-wing cult and more like a fever-dream rendering of the Manson Family, which is a prime conservative example of radical left-wing violence.
For now, her success may look good for the Saudi Kingdom, but it's surface level compared to the inequality between women and men that will remain long after she makes good on her plans to move to Italy in September.
These are called "firn aquifers," and occur when surface-level glacier ice melts in the summer, then keeps its liquid state year-round—thanks to snow that creates a blanket on top of it, trapping it beneath the surface, Poinar said.
When he speaks, his voice is calm and deep, a bit like how shrinks sound on TV. These surface level attributes wouldn't lead you to believe that Deem is one of New York's most exciting young rappers, but he is.
My instinct is that the ideal review might be drifting toward something that draws together the usefulness of both formats, pushing aside both the surface-level analysis of the capsule review and the writerly self-absorption of the more essayistic review.
In fact, other than The 1975's Matty Healy—who read from a piece written by the Guardian's Laura Snapes, citing the double standard in the perception of male and female musical genius —t was all fairly unchallenging, surface level stuff.
The EPA in October tightened the acceptable amount of surface-level ozone from 75 parts per billion to 70 parts per billion, a move opposed by businesses and states who say they are still struggling to adopt to the old standards.
This sounds positive at the surface level—the harms of sex trafficking are well-known—but critics say the law is both too vague to help actual victims of trafficking, and too broad to avoid widespread harm to consensual sex workers.
"I think what each team has seen, and we've seen now, is a set of pitches with underlying metrics that indicate he can be a successful major league reliever, maybe more so than his surface-level stats," the Twins' Falvey said.
"What people have done is taken exactly my model, skimmed it and they have a very surface-level kind of thing," Bunn told Make It, who pointed out that some of these museums even charge the exact same admission fee.
However, these pieces, seemingly easy to report out because of their surface-level levity, often eclipse overarching, unexplored narratives about labor, health care, education, and more, indicated by the lack of public or private support detailed in these stories themselves.
Mirrors open up the spaces they're in, and can be beautiful decorative pieces, making it a great gift for Libra: Mirrors are revealing on a surface level, but an astrology reading with a qualified practitioner can take you so much deeper.
And the ignored, rotting corpse of the siblings' father becomes a potent symbol of all that the siblings can't bear to face, all of the greater tragedies they ignore so that they can focus on the surface-level injustices against them.
At a surface level, some issues do appear to unite current conservatives: disdain for anticonservative and anti-Republican bias in the mainstream media; support for conservative judges like Neil Gorsuch, who joined the Supreme Court in April; and support for Israel.
Part of what drew the pair to this particular song, is that though on the surface level it's just a story about some birds, it is full of strange lyrics and "metaphors about journeying through half-real states and worlds," says Nuut.
The surface-level commentary on loss of individuality and the background noise of the Information Age seems quaint by 2017 standards, but maybe it's best to see it as part of the other quirky, minimal, tech-anxious visuals that accompanied OK Computer.
Much of the discussion remains surface-level, though, revolving around the publicly appealing aspects of it and not how Nike reckons with its being the official brand of the NFL while leaning fully into a campaign with a player blacklisted by the NFL.
If Drake's previous albums suggested emotional depths and sky-high pettiness that contained multitudes,  Views is all surface-level texture—a pristine, gigantic lake on an airless day, one that exists in its essence whether you pay any mind to it or not.
Refn's death-black vision is definitely not for everyone, but I found myself entranced by its (thematically appropriate) commitment to surface-level stylishness, and by the way it, like Swiss Army Man, charges headfirst into the realm of the grotesque and ridiculous.
All the flashbacks and the in-your-face opening montage are surface-level at best; they show Jenny and Nate sharing physical chemistry and big life moments like job updates before eventually missing each other more and more as their schedules get packed.
"Those of us who were in the Obama White House, that was always sort of our critique of the Washington political conversation: That it was surface level, and it was a way of relaying talking points and repeating conventional wisdom," he said.
Figuring out how to handle a particular situation is often a matter of deciding what the expectations and end goal of that friendship is; maybe it's just keeping in touch on a surface-level, or maybe it's about setting certain kinds of boundaries.
"The piece of the puzzle we see happening less, and that's the next phase of this work, is wellness that's beyond skin deep, beyond the surface level, and more towards young men caring for their emotional health and well-being," she said.
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On a surface level, it looks similar to what it was before: The brand still sells its most iconic styles, and its Instagram still features the high-flash photography for which the brand was known (though its newest photos lean more toward soft, natural light).
Harmon urged anyone listening who might hold positions of power to consider their own values, and what constitutes fairness, and to recognize that someone "can cause a lot of damage that is technically legal and hurts everybody" by not thinking beyond surface-level values.
Big idea 2: It's difficult for humans to produce analogies that drive some of the disruption Evans observes in small teams, in part because we fixate on the surface-level details of a problem, says Niki Kittur, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University.
After losing more than a 1,000 seats in statehouses, governors' mansions and Congress throughout the past eight years, Democrats should be focused on rebuilding their party, not protesting or making surface-level arguments because they didn't get their way in the 2016 presidential election.
He has been far too favorable and lenient on the VA during a period of some of the biggest scandals of our lifetime, does not personally connect with the veteran community beyond a surface level, and frankly, has significantly less experience than Mr. Walz.
Indeed, it is easy to criticize the show for slack morals — so long as you only watch it on a surface level, and know less about the actual human history on which the show and books are based than Jon Snow knows about, well, anything.
"I've never met anyone in this town that didn't say they had a genuine interest in helping vets," the source said, adding that beyond that surface level interest, there was no way to know what the true intentions of the Mar-a-Lago crowd were.
Even the most cursory glance toward the internet showed that the reaction toward West failed to look beyond the surface level of what may be going on, to approach him with empathy, as a human being, rather than a totem of something larger than life.
Instead of judging the book on its own merits—literarily, it's a surface-level memoir brimming with defensiveness and platitudes, and politically, it's about what you'd expect, for the record—critics on both sides have been arguing whether Clinton should have written it at all.
The desire to flatten and redefine works that were already bursting with their own histories made the show feel like the "Accidentally Wes Anderson" Instagram account: It had Mr. Anderson's surface-level aesthetic, but none of the underlying narrative or emotion of his movies.
On a very rudimentary level, Raising Dion works in the same way that DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl, or Cloak & Dagger do: They're mostly surface-level investigations; they dig only so deep and resist thematic, structural, or narrative risks in the name of form.
And even if you can find new ground to break (as I would argue both Ozark and Gypsy have — at least on a surface level), it's far too easy to confuse the antihero drama for the "people do bad things to garner our cheap thrills" drama.
Drake's main obsessions may seem surface-level, but it's worth noting the very personal way he relates to women, money, fame, vulnerability, and bravado that connects to something larger, and surprisingly resonant—a Drake concert is one of the most diverse events you may ever attend.
A little dissonance need not be destructive, if you can harness its potential productively, and that in turn will help affirm the language of storytelling in video games: both for those who know it fluently, and others who've previously been alienated by its surface-level indecipherability.
An urban renewal program in the 90s—including a minor league baseball stadium and Tennessee's largest aquarium—started to turn downtown around, but there's still a surplus of old hollowed-out buildings and largely empty surface-level parking lots that take up entire blocks of the city.
Taking a few molecules of metal as evidence that Kepler was an alchemist seems analogous to taking a few lines of dialogue about nobility as evidence that Shakespeare's plays were written by the Earl of Oxford: an interpretation based on surface-level findings, lacking in historical context.
On a surface level, that means that Samir is still glued to his Game Boy and that Portishead's "Glory Box" is playing during a scene in which Ali, stressed out by the need to relieve his sexual urges before getting married, goes to a prostitute named Angel.
It doesn't help that she has usually chosen to let the work speak for itself, avoiding interviews that rise above surface-level promotion — not a bad thing for an artist to do, to be sure, though it allows plenty of room for doubters to deny her credit.
In addition to the surface-level data on the buying and selling tabs, you can take a more granular look at all of your purchases in your portfolio and manually add other shoes you have in your collection, even if you didn't purchase them all on StockX.
The party's presidential field reacted to the attack with a measure of unity, at least on the surface level, condemning General Suleimani's role directing violence against Americans but criticizing what they called the Trump administration's penchant for reckless action and the threat of all-out war.
That's a very surface-level, non-spoilery look at the complex situation unfolding in Death Stranding, but rest assured that over the course of the game, everything is explained very thoroughly, even though at moments it may seem like there's no possible way to tie all of this together.
Rather than model the discrimination faced by women in the workplace or investigate what might improve working conditions, Ms. Monopoly has created a surface-level fantasy world where women succeed merely by virtue of being women, and where all players are incentivized to be women in order to win.
Fans of gaming, science fiction, and even surreal horror will be able to point out the Easter eggs tucked away beneath the surface-level Star Trek parody here — nods to video games like No Man's Sky and fictional ideas like the OASIS from Ernest Cline's Ready Player One.
Where the right longs endlessly for a past that never was, an unchaotic 1950s that largely exists in its head, the cultural left seems trapped in hopes of a future that leaves out everybody who disagrees with it, where everything is okay because we've embraced a surface-level diversity.
So while Jackson's allegory offers layered warnings about the dangers of historically justified closed-mindedness and mob behavior — which, throughout time, has fueled violence against specific groups based on identity— at surface level, it uses a homogenous community to play out its point to its absurd, barbaric conclusion.
While vulnerabilities in those apps offer only an initial foothold into an iOS device—a hacker still has to find other bugs that allow them to penetrate deeper into the phone's operating system—those surface-level flaws have nonetheless helped to make the recent spate of iOS attacks possible.
Where one doctor might stick to subdermal injections just at the surface level of the skin for a patient who wants to reduce sweat (similar to an armpit injection) or oil, another might go a little deeper to also lightly paralyze the muscle for added fine-line reduction.
The hard part, of course, was not designing the robot (though that was undoubtedly difficult as well) but the logic that lets it understand, at a surface level so to speak, the currents and flows of the fluid system and conduct follow-up experiments that produce useful results.
And a surface-level look at the facts — the US withheld a payment of $400 million in secret cash until Iran released US prisoners, and then shipped over another $1.3 billion in the next few days — confirms the narrative of the Obama administration making absurd concessions to Iran.
The two founders met at a Women in Hardware event in San Francisco Given her background in human-centered design and engineering, Kayla Matheus specifically designed the device to be more than just technology and able to interact with the user beyond the surface level based on insight from behavioral science.
Like Girvin, I, too, can feel like I have to be "on" around others, or I put up a wall as a self-protective strategy to avoid getting hurt, so social plans wind up reminding me how hard it is for me to connect with people beyond a surface level.
In many ways, it's a very American thing to think about identity on a surface level — like that if you're a person of color, you have to tell an identity story, and it has to be based on what you look like, because that's what the mainstream sees in you.
I've ultimately decided "Miss Americana" is more than pop propaganda, but as with many things Swift, there's a lot of surface-level symbolism you can read into here, such as the decision to go with Wilson, whose first film, "After Tiller," is about the endangered doctors who perform third-trimester abortions.
Even on a surface level, it's pretty clear that Mystery Brand is shady — and that, along with the fact that many of the creators promoting it have an audience largely made up of children, is why many, many YouTubers have formed a chorus of criticism against Paul, RiceGum, and others.
You look at the interface, it feels like it's just one long DM or IM. And it's a sort of thing where you tap on it, you get more, you can go deep and narrow on a topic or you can get just sort of these surface-level news updates.
But if you can get past those (very real) surface-level problems, you'll be treated to a grand cosmic adventure that largely stops being a Marvel movie and instead becomes a surprisingly thoughtful treatise on what it means to have your memories stolen from you, at least for a while there.
Yet the moment Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is offered the rare treat by Serena Joy (Yvonne Strahovski), the wife of her commander (Joseph Fiennes), we are reminded that the cookie, and all of the things that add to the surface-level beauty in The Handmaid's Tale, is a signifier of something much more sinister.
He is typically blasé and unenthused about the work he's done, and life in general, but there are glints of real, actual excitement buried deep under his surface-level apathy when discussing Hunchback '88, which he worked on for six years, mostly writing it on his phone, and largely as a distraction.
It just sort of made it seem like you were signing in with Gmail at the most surface level, whereas after the fact, people went through and saw that it actually had full access, so it could theoretically see your emails or see the content of stuff that you have on your Gmail account.
I was very pleasantly surprised by a movie that was adorable, fun, and surprisingly funny, a much lighter and more self-aware take on the Avengers universe—excuse me, MCU—that hints, at the very tippy-top surface level some kind of awareness of the mega-privilege of main series heroes like Tony Stark.
There's a tendency in American progressive media to slavishly adulate whoever the latest politician was who successfully "dunked on" Trump, which shows that there's an enduring obsession with the kind of theatrical, surface-level politics that might excite and infatuate professional-class liberals, but don't have much relevance in the lives of most the public.
"As the United States escalated its global ambitions during and after World War II, that kind of global image-making was a very powerful incentive for policymakers to pay attention to civil rights for minorities and these kinds of issues and try to, at least on the surface level, make some reforms," Wu said.
And when you look at - - you know, what is being reported, as Juan just tried to distract back to you with all these other topics that we&aposre not discussing right now, there are very serious things going on in Iran, although we can focused on other topics on the surface level with the media in the United States.
In this regard, It joins The Shining and Carrie as the best of the Stephen King horror adaptations — films that understand that King's novels are never about surface-level scares, but about the countless ways in which individual small-time acts of evil coalesce into terrifying systems of violence, often aided by an increasingly indifferent society.
Williamson also called out the other candidates on what she perceived was a surface-level discourse: she criticized them for not discussing "American foreign policy in Latin America," called on them to "get deeper than the superficial fixes" regarding the health care system and underscored the "deep, deep realms of racial injustice" at play when discussing police shooting incidents.
Anything as simple as a complimenting a women daily, buying them a coffee/lunch, taking the time to speak to someone who's in a hard place, volunteering with girls who have been bullied, getting to know women deeper than surface level and making a point myself to not judge a book by its cover on a daily basis.
" Manigault-Newman goes on to claim that the 72-year-old Trump, whom she refers to as "Donald" throughout the book, "has only a surface-level understanding of the content he&aposs signing into law" and adds "Donald has always relied on his charisma, his street smarts, and trusted advisers to tell him what was in the paperwork.
Instead of selling insecurity, like they did in the past, corporations now sell "surface-level wokeness": In this system, corporate interests have a clear opening to insert themselves into the fray and emerge as heroes simply by hiring an ad agency or casting director who can read the room, and without changing their business's treatment of anyone.
Lathan has been cast in the lead role as Violet Jones, a woman with a high-powered job, a live-in boyfriend, and a seemingly perfect life which begins to completely unravel after an accident at the hairdresser forces her to shave off all her hair and realize that maybe there's more to life than just surface-level appearances.
The recent struggles of SoundCloud, streaming's most democratic and artist-friendly service, paint a picture of a listener base that continues to gravitate toward the surface-level trend hopping of playlist culture, putting more power in the hands of the major streaming services and giving artists less room to make a definitive statement with their music.
As an 80s baby, I'd gone into the concert worried that my surface level familiarity with the trio's catalogue would leave me unfamiliar and bored at points throughout the show, but just a few songs into his set, it was clear that Loggins, like Cross, would be giving this audience nothing but the comfort food they'd come here for.
Aside from the obvious differences between the Obamas and the Trumps in terms of surface-level indicators of the equality of their partnerships — age, education, and career experience — Melania Trump does not appear to have any expectations for her husband when it comes to feminism or becoming more respectful or supportive of her or any other women.
On another early B-side, 2005's "Big Infatuation," the references are all Bet Lynch on a dirty weekend in Blackpool, leaking surface-level glamour; "I'm the topper of the Holiday Inn / Smoking Russians and drinking Pimm's when he walked in / Static sheets of acrylic silk / My stocking tops clasped my thighs and held me in," Jackson wails.
No, but seriously, I think there's also something in the fact that even as UnReal hammers home the themes that make Everlasting run, the machinations around those explicit themes are much more complex, and anyone who can't get past the network executive who speaks in loglines is stuck on the most surface-level stuff the show is doing.
It wasn't a problem for me, as "white bald guy" seemed extremely on trend at War and Peace this year, but I can't imagine what it would be like for a Jewish person if he or she had to walk around, seeing what—at surface level, at least—sometimes looked like a very lackadaisical Nazi rally in a field in southeast England.
Which is not to say the two games are completely comparable— but, both are CCGs in the fantasy realm, spun-off from bigger franchises (Hearthstone, in case you're playing catch up, features characters from the Warcraft series), so there are surface-level similarities enough to warrant a deeper exploration of why Gwent has stolen me away from my Old Gods and Karazhan critters.
The book—a generously sized tome crammed with rare photos, diaries, and memorabilia documenting the rise of notorious Norwegian black metal icons Mayhem—is already looking to be an essential read for any fan of the genre, and an enticing prospect for anyone interested in learning more about the phenomenon beyond its sensational surface-level history of murder and church burnings.
The playful nature of her music, on a surface level, might appear as if it's just freaky music for the club, but actually, party tracks like hers are bristling with genuine political power, particularly during a climate ruled by those hell-bent on sucking the fun out of everything, sniffing out then neutralising any scent of rebellion or anarchy and turning the volume down on certain communities.
And sure, there's nothing wrong with drawing such aesthetic influence from someone––I, for one, wish more rappers would try to sound like Z-Ro, and will never be mad at a band for ripping off Modern Life Is War––but if an artist's frames of reference never go beyond surface-level touchstones it's hard to imagine them achieving any sort of innovation or depth.
And when it comes to her policy, she&aposs always talking on the surface level about bringing back middle-class jobs, fighting for the little guy, but actually the thing that she votes for and supports like minimum wage hikes and not taking down Dodd-Frank, actually bring robots in to take minimum-wage jobs that people can then get into and then build their careers from there.
But that figure only gives a surface-level view into the success and current challenges of Amazon's loyalty program — chief among them, how to keep growing in the country where Prime is the most popular and the biggest money-maker: Right here in the U.S. Various Wall Street analysts have pegged Amazon Prime's penetration at between 245 percent and 503 percent of all U.S. households over the past year.
On a surface level, this installment is concerned with some of the bleakest events in the story to date: the discovery of the old-school phone hacker Romero's corpse by his confederate Mobley, the latter's increasing conviction that their group has been marked for death by the fearsome organization the Dark Army, Elliot's desperate attempts to overdose himself out of his Mr. Robot persona's clutches, his garrulous new pal Ray's tragic and violent back story.
Pardes is a Hebrew word in its own right—it means "orchard"—but as an acronym it encompasses four approaches to commentary: Peshat, the obvious, surface-level meaning of a verse or fragment of sacred text; Remez, the study of hints and allegories, seeking the symbolism beneath the surface; Drash, a form of exegesis that uses intertextual connections; and Sód, the reading of secret things, finding, in the holy letters, mystical resonances and shards of the divine.
Garland may not be ready for full-throated comparisons to Damian Lillard or Stephen Curry, but there are some surface-level similarities that make him intriguing, especially after the success Trae Young had following a fairly quick adjustment to the N.B.A. Garland's lack of physical strength shows up on the defensive end, and limits his ability to finish at the rim, but in moderate action last season he shot 11 of 63 from 3-point range and showed that he can move effectively without the ball while also finding teammates if a shot doesn't open up for him.

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