Sentences with phrase «tone 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.

I think the main point I was getting at was that your piece seems to be a critique more of Daniel's tone than its substance.

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

It struck me as a form of the appeal to «civility», a well - worn tactic for derailing debates about important things into arguments about tone rather than substance.