This is an election which is fundamentally
about lack of substance.
Not exact matches
Percy conveys the postmodern, post-Christian Tupperware partygoer's disappointment in the randomness
of a world «
lacking mystery and
substance» as he employs a playful literary technique involving human «looniness» to explore the dilemma
of man's uncertainty
about the nature
of existence.
Indeed, if we're not clear and articulate
about what we stand for, we'll be pushed out
of the way because we'll
lack the
substance to stand our ground.
The
lack of mercury warnings reflects the sometimes contradictory and often confusing information from the federal government
about a toxic
substance found in seafood.
U.S. Rep. John Katko says he's undecided
about which Republican presidential candidate he'll support this year, and blames frontrunner Donald Trump for a
lack of substance in the campaign.
«When you think
about it, it masks his
lack of leadership, his
lack of substance and perhaps most important, his
lack of any really meaningful accomplishments,» Katko said.
To complain that The Neon Demon
lacks substance or that it doesn't have anything to say
about our cultural obsession with beauty is to miss the crazy, cracked pageant unfolding in front
of you.
The various personalities
lack much
substance, as we learn little
about them and never get a good feel for any
of them.
In fact, if there's any complaint
about the film at all, it's that the Susan segment feels a little cold (no doubt a reflection
of the characters that inhabit it) and
lacks the
substance and nerve - wracking tension
of the other storyline.
Nothing feels authentic (the less said
about the accents the better), and Cooper doesn't pony up nearly enough style to make up for the
lack of substance.
This is a fundamental assumption present in the overwhelming majority
of commercial products, to the point where games like Style Savvy can be described as vapid or
lacking in
substance not merely because it's read as a «girl game» and is
about fashion, but because there isn't this process
of mastery involved.
But he continued his tired analogy, just as Roberts and his ilk trot out the same old lines
about oil - industry - funded - corporate - shills, the scale and the
substance of the «scientific consensus», and
of course, the equivalence
of climate scepticism and conservatism, all
of which, many times, have been shown to
lack foundation.
Avoid vague statements
lacking any actual
substance, and keep the document to
about half
of a page in length.