Sentences with phrase «than substance»

There is some difference in how you present arguments on paper as opposed to in oral argument, but the distinction is largely one of style rather than substance.

Beyond doubt, we are more styled than substance in this 2019 project.

The press response to their study has therefore been almost totally dominated by the error at the beginning of the report, rather than the substance of their work on the impacts.

Readers have to learn to discriminate between reliable sources of information and those offering more spin than substance.

It is quite sad that media hype is much more than substance in today's world.

Sometimes the keywords are more important than the substance in the resume.

That's because at this moment, AI is more hype than substance.

Conversely, the typical addiction counselor has little or no training in any mental health other than substance abuse.

When it comes to the ketogenic diet, we might be seeing more flash than substance.

As with accountability, however, there is more symbol than substance here.

While these terms may be popular now, they often lack a real meaning, and are more filler than substance.

In the case of technology, competence has more to do with the tools you use than the substance of your legal arguments and strategies.

While that move was more symbolism than substance, it was important symbolism.

For sure, the most valuable company crown is more psychology than substance.

THE Jewish advantage in the professions, then, is rather shadow than substance, and so, but much more so, is the Jewish importance in politics.

Granted there is a lot more to the biblical witness than our substance.

The idea that process is more fundamental than substance is a metaphysical notion.

Certain mushrooms do this more powerfully than any substance known to man - acting within hours of consumption.

The polished, muscular pilot is more concept than substance.

The problem is, it's more about tricks than substance.

There's perhaps more fluff than substance here, but that's not always bad.

Therefore, people who buy cars on style or flash rather than substance probably will not like it.

The second error is more an error of persuasion than substance and it is the habit of slipping into the language of hurt feelings.

Like video resumes, they are more gimmick than substance.

Sexual addictions are just as devastating, if not more so, than substance addictions.

These days we pay more attention to sound bites than substance.

Still, support for vouchers does not match public willingness to back tax credits, even though most economists think the difference between vouchers and tax credits more a matter of style than substance.

It's bad form in an era where form, like optics, is more important than substance.

A «thing» is thought of as a constant pattern through repetition rather than a substance or a material object in the old sense.

As with software, too, features may add more flash than substance.

The evening debates which sometimes drag on as late as midnight are more about show than substance, Mr. Bryant said in an interview yesterday, so changes are needed to attract more people to public life by modernizing the hours of legislative business.

Speaking to BBC South's Political Editor Peter Henley, Mr Cameron defended her decision and criticised the BBC for covering the row, which he said was more about form than the substance of the campaign.

Albany is an incestuous conglomerate of incompetent fools more concerned with appearances than substance.

But Bungie has already gone into serious detail on Destiny 2, so this showing will be more about spectacle than substance.

But the gap between his platform and the platform of Villaraigosa, his closest Democratic rival, was more about tone than substance: both emphasized early education and child welfare, increased school funding, and better access to college.

Honestly he is a hero in today's America where flash is greater than substance, and financial success determines who is right and who is wrong.

In his chapter «Events, Individuals and Predication: Defense of Event Pluralism» Hartshorne shows how the process conception of events answers to the problems of predication better than the substance conception does.

The small business tax cuts unveiled by Cuomo in Rochester were also panned by some of those targeted to benefit, including the owner of a Binghamton accounting firm who called them «more window dressing than substance.»

It further argued that «it is not possible scientifically to determine whether cats view one substance to be more or less malodorous than another substance.»

It should now be easy to understand the sense in which I claim that the Bible is more about processes than substances.

Women have a long history of being ghettoized in lower - paying service and clerical jobs, vulnerable to layoffs without warning and often placed impositions that require them to display more image than substance.

Although this seems promising, because previous Nokia phones were equipped with Zeiss lenses, it's important to recognize this as more marketing than substance.

But for all the firm's high - toned, West Coast cool, Lunar's success is, in part, more surface than substance.

More Spray Tan than Substance Start - Ups offers a handful of genuinely valuable moments — an insider's peek at when employee - turned - entrepreneur Kim Taylor decides to leave her job and start a business of her own, for instance; or when the unfocused upstart Ben Way mentions to an investor that he has over 40 companies, which comes off as amateurish bragging.

A Being was taking form in the totality of space; a Being with the attractive power of a soul, palpable like a body, vast as the sky; a Being which mingled with things yet remained distinct from them; a Being of a higher order than the substance of things with which it was adorned, yet taking shape within them.

But there is further teaching that develops other topics than our substance: the life and existence of our community, and our identification with either the seed of the snake or the seed of the woman.

The categories other than substance [Entity] are, as it were, mere «offshoots and concomitants of being.»

In general, if we consider the two main sources of Christian theology as the Bible and Greek philosophy, we can say that process thought is more characteristic of the Bible than substance thought of the Greeks.