"We hope, and will do our best to see to it, that the time of merely formal, superficial contacts without contents is over."

But if, similarly, in putting the lanes together, superficial contact is allowed as an alternative to linear, that method will give them bodies which are not any element nor composed of elements.

She was an expert at keeping people at a distance, blocking any but the most superficial contact.

No Street Directions As late as the 1970's, it was almost impossible to have anything other than the most superficial contact with Chinese.

The guidelines recognize that most medical procedures pose no risk at all because AIDS is not transmitted through superficial contact.

Her casual admirers, from whom she obtains the greatest benefits, are those with whom she has the most superficial contact: the restaurant host, the cab-driver, the nightclub owner.

These were mostly superficial contacts, but they reflected a spirit of relaxation unlike anything since Israel occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the 1967 war.

Rather than becoming deeply involved with the total personality of every individual we meet, he explained, we necessarily maintain superficial and partial contact with some.

Often one could hear far more affecting singing from the pit than from the stage, where the principal characters managed to make only intermittent and superficial contact with each other.

To what extent are we maintaining more than just superficial contact with government bodies?