Sentences with phrase «little substance»

That's a subjective statement with little substance behind it.

As information, it was wonderfully obscure, with very little substance.

Some experts on disaster preparation aren't happy with some aspects of the report, and many feel there's little substance behind international pledges to cut risks.

They're good for a laugh, but typically one - note gags, with little substance beyond the ridiculous premise.

Is it just a «trendy» term in education these days with little substance backing it up in the classroom, or are we really heading somewhere with this?

Truth be told, the story had little substance from the beginning itself.

We are treated to a list of candidates, and very little substance indeed.

Very little substance emerges in this praise - packed promo program.

It offers exceedingly little substance; you won't miss anything if you skip it.

For all its initially impressive energy, the revival feels dated, its lack of chilling terror creating an evening of strikingly little substance.

But even a glance at their article shows how little substance there is to any of these promises.

It has little substance about the career of the job seeker and provides a lot of detail on hobbies unrelated to the job.

They now seem to have had very little substance.

The question to ask then, is if today's games have become the victim of all flash with little substance?

It was said with such bite yet has little substance behind it.

He can only hear an argument in defence of abundance as an argument for environmental destruction and death based on some mathematically impossible concept of «infinite growth», no matter that the claim he makes finds little substance in reality.

However, Justice Robert Mainville at the Federal Court of Appeal found little substance in their arguments.

Fincher himself has called Panic Room a film of little substance — a «guilty pleasure.»

The article by Ben Brogan provides little substance for believing that serious efforts will be made at deselection, however.

Although there was too little substance use among the adolescents to look at changes in substance use, we were able to examine changes in several critical parent - child relationship domains in the current analysis, including parental bonds, family conflict, and adolescent sexual behaviors.

Consequently, such reckless opining can be given little substance.

It must be a luxury indeed to be able to call upon Robert De Niro to play a supporting character of such little substance.

The Devil's Advocate is a very watchable but highly flawed film that definitely delivers on flash while offering little substance.

It is a sad commentary on the media that this presentation had so little substance other than anecdotal «evidence» that climate change is adversely affecting vineyards in the Great Lakes.

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.

Robert P. George's recent «On the Square» takes apart what little substance there is in the statement, and he does so with his usual force and precision.

However, before explaining how this nasty little substance is produced by your beloved Chile plants you first need to have a little chemistry lesson.

Roger Goodell's much anticipated (and much overdue) press conference delivered little substance.

However, when you actually look at the message, rather than the messenger, it becomes clear that increasingly little substance remains in the Blair project.

Oh sugar, that tricky little substance.

Ingrid Bergman won an Oscar (her third) for playing the role of the missionary caring for «little brown babies» in Africa, but there's precious little substance here for a dowdy, de-glamorized Cruz to waste her prayers on.

One would hope that these films will rise above their own tropes and not turn into a lumbering ball of self - referencing with little substance like the James Bond series.

Its level design, too, looks and feels like a Borderlands game, but it bears little substance in comparison to its close cousin.

Even if readers don't believe the testimonials were made up, they are likely to carry very little weight if they are packed with superlatives but contain little substance or detail.

It's great too see the movie's characters like Mumble and Gloria but the Wii controls are used in a gimmicky way that adds very little substance to a game that could have been really fun.

It is a sad commentary on the media today that this presentation had so little substance other than anecdotal «evidence» that climate change is adversely affecting vineyards in the Great Lakes.

While singles could gain from an increasingly - accessible dating pool, in many ways we've been assaulted with too much choice and too little substance.

I cared not a wit for the four self - absorbed, self indulgent, neurotic pousers, and found little substance in this clumsy, heavy handed, film.

In addition, they demonstrated support for the PS3 by showing off some brilliant upcoming titles - Gran Turismo 6, Puppeteer, Rain, Beyond: Two Souls - and even managed to squeeze in some token «we still support the Vita» talk in there (although that's all it really was, all talk, with very little substance beyond indie games).

It must be a great luxury indeed to be able to call upon Robert De Niro to play a supporting character of such little substance.

While I initially thought additions like the Villager (Animal Crossing) would offer little substance it proved a decent choice in some matches.

Demonstrating only a surface - level understanding of survival horror, RNC drapes its game with all the aesthetic trappings but has very little substance backing up its style.

In short, Obama is a global warming «believer» but has provided little substance to back his conviction and seldom talks about it.

Overhype with little substance behind the workings has undone many companies..

While it can offer an additional opportunity for people to raise their concerns and highlight issues emerging during the course of a Parliament, the risk is that it, instead, becomes a focus for populist campaigns of little substance or merit.

Fleeting postcard images of Rome's landmarks fade behind a movie with little substance, much less an adequate amount of cognitive cohesion.