Sentences with phrase «triumphing over substance»

Directed by Kari Skogland, «Men with Guns» is a prime example of style triumphing over substance in desperately thriving for an offbeat rhtythm in its depiction of underworld denizens while being overboard with the sometimes literally flowery dialogue.

Dr Newman, of the ANU Research School of Psychology, said the results showed when it comes to communicating science, style can triumph over substance.

Style doesn't triumph over substance in The Neon Demon.

Not exact matches

Diller, a media magnate in his own right who currently runs IAC / InterActiveCorp and created Fox Broadcasting among other properties, sees Trump's rise as the triumph of image over substance.

Among the high - profile changes was a decision to have Peter Mansbridge stand up while presenting The National, which was derided as a triumph of style over substance.

To those most appalled by the prospect of a President Trump, it's an ugly manifestation of America's bigoted id, or the triumph of celebrity culture over substance, or a product of a broken information ecology in which acceptance of facts is optional.

If the mind is the active agent in knowledge, then the principle of mind itself triumphs over the vast, messy array of material substances awash in the world.

But even if it weren't being marketed to suggest a nonexistent Tim Burton connection, it already looked the part, causing me to fear a triumph of style over substance.

Gigi is a triumph of form over substance.

I think it gets tiresome to refer to certain movies as triumphs of style over substance, but that cliché truly applies to 300.

Overall, Alien is a triumph of style over substance, of lean over fat.

He called the previous Labour government's «bash the rich» experiment a failure, a triumph of spin over substance.

Cuphead looks like a triumph of style over substance to me.

And they will ask themselves why it is stacked, being entirely familiar in political contexts with the idea that stacking is a symptom of the triumph of spin over substance.

It said the deal was «a triumph of spin over substance.

If you are a regular follower, you have probably seen these before, but two of my recent essays have been published and are now available for free download and citation: The Unfortunate Triumph of Form over Substance in Canadian Administrative Law (2012) 50:2 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 317.

Paul Daly, «The Unfortunate Triumph of Form over Substance in Canadian Administrative Law» 50:2 Osgoode Hall LJ [forthcoming in 2012].

The Unfortunate Triumph of Form over Substance in Canadian Administrative Law (2012) 50:2 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 317.

[iv] Adrian Vermeule, Judging Under Uncertainty: An Institutional Theory of Legal Interpretation (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006) and Paul Daly, «The Unfortunate Triumph of Form Over Substance in Canadian Administrative Law» (2012) 50 (2) Osgoode Hall Law Journal 317.