In just a cursory way

Usage examples of superficially.

The ball entered the right shoulder, immediately over the suprascapular notch, passed superficially upward and forward into the neck, wounding the esophagus posteriorly at a point opposite the thyroid cartilage, and lodged in the left side of the neck.

On the contrary, the fleshly element in his composition seemed, superficially, to enjoy a luxurious preponderance over the spiritual.

These names refer to the morphology of the hip joint and ostentation of the pubis bone, which is more typically reptile-like in saurischians and is superficially like that of a bird in ornithischians.

And no one can doubt that the transcultural nature of the experiments -- the tendency to globalize and rationalize human interaction without a proper foundation within the depths of the human being, without a true meeting of persons across the superficially breached cultural barriers -- has contributed to the massive regional disasters that have afflicted former colonies in recent decades.

It has always been one of my unclerical sermons to myself, that that remark which Peter made on seeing the vision of a single hour, ought to be made by us all, in contemplating every panoramic change in the long Vision we call life--other things superficially, but this always in our depths.

Agendath Netaim, unfolded the same, examined it superficially, rolled it into a thin cylinder, ignited it in the candleflame, applied it when ignited to the apex of the cone till the latter reached the stage of rutilance, placed the cylinder in the basin of the candlestick disposing its unconsumed part in such a manner as to facilitate total combustion.

It is indeed a very subtle pleasure to perceive the effect of lines which are unmetrical superficially but which yet confine themselves to a fixed structure below, by varying the stresses and compensating for them.

Russian life than the more superficially verisimilar and equably average presentation of them favored by his literary contemporaries.

Within recent years we have witnessed an extraordinary development in certain studies, which, though superficially different from those pursued by Agassiz, have an underlying bond of unity with them, but which are generally carried on without reference to principles governing the investigation of every organism and all organic life.

But the Byronic spirit was only superficially assimilated by Pushkin, and the two poems must be regarded as further impersonal exercises on a borrowed theme.

His superficially passionate heroes, with their Byronic pose, are rather cheap.

Superficially, it would have seemed, their presence could be more than justified, but as the pilot had firmly stated that he had no intention of setting his Chinook down in floodwaters and the experts, portly gentlemen all, had indicated that they had no intention of descending by winch or rope ladder only to be swept away, it was difficult to see how their presence could be justified.

But he was a good mathematician and a fair topologist, and we published most of his submissions, so that he and I remained superficially friendly.

Contemporary with the economic historiography, there was a new intellectual criticism reminding one superficially of the Voltairean, but in reality founded far more on Darwinian ideas.

He rarely ventured deeper than 100 feet and he penetrated wrecks only superficially, but he was hooked on the history that wafted from these ships.