Sentence examples similar to a non substantive from inspiring English sources

PAUL KRUGMAN: I think it was meant mainly as a technical cleanup — just a reduction in the aid to banks, not a contractionary policy; and maybe also as a non-substantive sop to the inflation hawks.

(A) The similarities are coincidental and non-substantive.

Where ordinarily we take ourselves to be dealing with an ontology of substances, natural things, intrinsic properties, we're in fact dealing with an ontology of social things, relations, and non-substantive (and often normative) kinds.

The State Of The Union speech was one of the most boring, rambling and non-substantive I have heard in a long time.

It was an occasion, he concluded, when Oman's "positive but non-substantive" relationship with Tehran actually proved useful.

"The involvement of the White House was very limited and non-substantive".

"He said that the Rudd government had done non-substantive things," Abbott said.

Responding to the speech, the billionaire said it was "boring" and "non-substantive".

"Because the current President is still in office, calls made during the transition period should be high level, non-substantive, and consist largely of diplomatic pleasantries," they wrote.

Off-topic stuff and non-substantive stuff will be weeded out when caught; this is not the place to talk about how much you hate visiting your aunt.

In saying that "He is the Subject, he is the Absolute She is the Other," part of Beauvoir's point is that although it may appear that our distinction between subjects and non-subjects is a purely descriptive demarcation of a specific category of substances (selves), in fact, the distinction in use is normative and non-substantive.