Sentence examples for Form over content from inspiring English sources

Modernism in the arts meant exactly this victory of form over content.

I can't stand a manicured plate, a thoughtfully placed arrangement, form over content, concept over taste.

Frazer was a Victorian and his view of Turner predates the modern preference for form over content.

The evening news, in a triumph of form over content, restores order in a discrete half-hour.

When Londoners re-elected him against the anti-Tory trend, they were choosing form over content, character over narrative.

I'd seen a few Beckett productions that seemed to be all about style and form over content.

Form triumphs over content.

"It's form over substance".

They stressed the importance of form and technique over content and looked for the specificity of literature as an autonomous verbal art.

Although form's dominion over content is no longer as prevalent today, Larsen attributes many contemporary artists' vocations to that former aesthetic climate.

"In the final analysis, form can never win over content when it comes to the audience," he said.