Sentence examples for about as substantive from inspiring English sources

Jonathan Alter, whose got a new insidery chronicling of Beltway grabassery that will probably be about as substantive as a fart wrapped in a doily.

The 1970s production design by Jules Cook and costume design by Kate Carin is spot-on period specific, but the story of "Action Point" is about as substantive as a Schlitz.

As substantive talks begin, take time to discuss ground rules, including your basic beliefs about trust.

Such rhetoric is as substantive as a loud fart.

Most of it has to be as substantive as possible".

They thought he treated them as substantive inferiors; they were.

Sometimes, he will talk about someone after a thoughtful 12-minute interview of Senator John Kerry or Senator John McCain that is as substantive or illuminating as any on programs like "Meet the Press".

Hereafter, we refer to these categories as substantive BMI loss, substantive BMI gain, and stable BMI.

The adjective 'rapax' is used as substantive noun.

This article reassesses the place of concept-based explanation in semantics in light of these developments, concentrating on the explanatory power, scope and uniqueness of the conceptual hypothesis as a substantive proposal about the mental architecture supporting meaning.

Other philosophers claim that the latter is not envy at all.5 Like many disputes over the nature of emotions, this one threatens to devolve into competing stipulations, but it can be understood as a substantive question about the character of an empirical phenomenon.[6] Some of the examples advanced on behalf of the suggested bifurcation threaten to obscure the issue.