Surficially

The prevalent feeling on this poll in most media is that "all three candidates" have "lost support," and surficially that's the case -- Rasmussen's poll two weeks ago had John Hickenlooper at 43%, Dan Maes at 31%, and Tom Tancredo at 18%, a consistent decline obviously more attributable to greater indecision among voters than it is any one candidate peeling support from another. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Jack Vance's "The Moon Moth," for example, contemplates a world obsessed with something we at first see as surficially silly. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They are another of many 1970s bands I knew first surficially and did not really appreciate until I dug into the tracks the radio stations did not play. ❋ Alan Levine Aka CogDog (2010)

This volume takes on a once verboten topic -- can surficially beneficent or altruistic behavior sometimes be motivated by more unsavory drives like aggression, egotism or even rapacious self-interest? ❋ David Brin (2010)

National Treasure = The DaVinci Code or any formulaic, surficially entertaining but shallower than the average puddle, book, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is self representative, Catwoman and Sin City = comic books, Harry Potter and LotR as themselves, and Skinemax = vampire erotica? ❋ Neth (2006)