Sentence examples for Substantiality from inspiring English sources
noun
The state of being substantial
Declaring that he could not smile and weep with the multitude, he singled out "substantiality" and "honesty with oneself" as the chief prerequisites of a good writer.
With less documentary substantiality, Martin Amis's novels, angled somewhere between scabrous relish and satiric disgust, offer prose that has the lurid energy of a strobe light playing over vistas of urban sleaze, greed, and debasement.
The Canadian sculptor Robert Murray (1936– ) is notable among other artists working in the monumental stabile form; his lofty curved and folded aluminum sheets, while usually more geometric and less "penetrable" than the stabiles of Calder, nonetheless share the latter's paradoxical blend of lightness and substantiality, motion and stasis.
It's a wonderful thing, memory, and even more wonderful to dream it back to substantiality on the page.
Each essay is evaluated for the total impression it creates, and readers are trained to take into account such aspects of essay analysis as complexity of thought, substantiality of development, and facility with language.
The added substantiality makes Mr. Noble's landscape a trifle cruder and more present.
They are traces of the hosshin's omnipresencing non-substantiality, emptiness as the "primal non-originating" source of these thing-events in their beginningless and endless interrelations.
Signification then for Kûkai is nothing but differentiation (shabetsu), which is another way of speaking of the non-substantiality, i.e., emptiness, of phenomena.
So the hosshin in its somaticity designates the ontological ground of all beings but also designates their underlying de-ontologizing (or: me-ontologizing; or even better: anontological) emptiness, their non-substantiality.
The interrelationship amongst the elements signifies their non-substantiality, i.e. the fact that they are not ontologically independent, and in Buddhist parlance this means "emptiness" (śûnyatâ, kû).
5th state: "The mind freed from karmic seeds" (batsu gôinju-shin): The state of the pratyeka-buddha, who, masterless on his own, attains insight into the chain of dependent origination to recognize the impermanence, self-less-ness, and non-substantiality of all, thus preventing new karma to arise.
