Sentences with phrase «take over from substance»

Not exact matches

Thanks to a hiring manager (also a supersurvivor, though he likely wouldn't claim so) who recognized my potential, I took a significant pay cut but gained a network of colleagues / friends who, it turns out, had all been through similarly difficult circumstances (rare and serious illness, complicated grief over a loved one's death, surviving — and rescuing others from — abuse and substance abuse) and come out better for it.

The film's condensation of the years that took Wiseau to get over his heartbreak regarding the unexpected laughter that resulted in screening his «drama», and finally embrace the comedic aspects of the film, takes a bit away from important character development that could have given the third act a bit more substance.

The movie «Sweeney» is merely an exercise in style over substance, apparently taking nothing from the show except for a few relationships and lesser moments of dialogue.

Excerpted from the Foreword (pages xii - xiii) Last year, Tavis Smiley took a lot of heat over his reluctance to rubber - stamp Barack Obama's candidacy simply on the basis of its symbolism as opposed to demanding to know exactly what the substance of a victory might potentially mean for black America.

By painting layer upon layer of whites and off - whites over silkscreened elements used in previous works — monochrome forms taken from reproductions, enlargements of details of photographs, screens, and polaroids of his own paintings — he accretes the surface of his pressurized paintings while apparently voiding their very substance.

The bill defined industrial hemp, excluded it from the definition of «marihuana» in the Controlled Substances Act, and assigned authority over it to the states, allowing laws in those states regulating the growing and processing of industrial hemp to take effect.

With China and South Korea taking a hardline stance on ICOs, no word from France, and a «substance over form» method from Canada, there's no one - size - fits - all approach.