Sentences with phrase «left little substance»

Standing in front of business and government leaders from around the world at what is being coined the «Asian Davos,» President Xi Jinping delivered China to the world stage but left little substance last night.

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But, nowadays, there is little real confessional substance left in parish or denominational life, certainly not enough to have kept me Lutheran.

I am not in love with the board nor overly enamoured with some of Wenger's dealings / decisions but I still find myself disagreeing with nearly everything you say — and if it is not the content of what you say then it will be the manner in which you say it which will leave people non-plussed — all fire and brimstone with little substance or logic.

Is «Big Data» the latest vaporous marketing trend that'll wash across the land, leaving little of substance behind?

The paper explains that these pills were provided by the National Cancer Institute, but i also did a little more reading on the internet and found that it's made by a japanese company that makes these pills available to institutions for research (apparently Polyphenon E is the preferred means of studying standardized quantities of tea catechins, as opposed to extracting the substances from tea leaves oneself).

That lack of substance leaves you little to engage with, unless you really like people falling off things or blokes with floating trainers.

Long gone are the origins of comic books which served as allegory to modern social situations, these films are only about violence, hero's repeatedly saving the day and leave the intelligent moviegoer with little substance.

Of the other competition buzz films leaving Sundance with distribution deals that guarantee their release: Peter Hedges's Pieces of April is a silly sitcom with a Guess Who's Coming to Dinner twist; Tom McCarthy's The Station Agent is little more than a three - character, metaphorically burdened off - Broadway play, but Peter Dinklage's understated performance gives it a bit of substance; Catherine Hardwicke's thirteen captures the hysteria of teenage girls, and its depiction of how a good girl can go bad overnight will give parents nightmares, but the script, co-written by Hardwicke and Nikki Reed (who also plays one of the two teen leads), is as overexcited as the girls themselves, and its affirmative ending is unearned.

But Gomo has taken this too far, leaving absolutely nothing of substance within its plot, and that's a shame because through the silent protagonist a heart - felt little story of pure love and emotion could have been told here, subtle yet effective.

Some partial grants might eliminate one minor claim, while others might cut out the heart of a case leaving little of substance to the litigation.