Due to superficial changes, the child was unable to comprehend that the properties of the substances continued to remain the same (conservation).

Though genuine iconoclasm is rare, the networks are brimming with superficial changes.

What he discovered was a company that desperately required a complete reinvention - not simply superficial changes.

This is an attitude which will block attempts to bring about anything other than token or superficial change.

"It was just a superficial change in title."

Even so, analysts said such superficial changes represented only minor tinkering to a brand in need of a second wind.

Why do I cavil over what might seem like merely superficial changes in the external structure of nonprofit theaters?

"There have been superficial changes," he wrote in 1984.

They apparently realize that the popular mood will not accept superficial changes, but demands real ones.

The government has only made superficial changes which will have no real lasting effect on the situation.