Sentence examples for and substantial as a from inspiring English sources

There is no looking back after the grand but stunningly simple Barker House of 1911-12, and the smaller but equally disciplined Miltimore House of 1911, in which he achieved the goal he would later articulate in a gentle essay, about building a house as "simple, plain and substantial as a boulder" that would become decorated only with the vines of nature and the patina of time.

It is reasonable to concede that a collective, guided enterprise could serve to devise solid and substantial datasets, as a result of a collaborative effort, in the same sense as the open software community does.

Pierce Butler, a future Supreme Court justice, suggested in his 1908 biography of Benjamin that the newly elected senator likely declined these offers not only because he preferred active politics, but because he could maintain his law practice and substantial income as a senator, but could not as a justice.

We ask the Board to recognize the.ART gTLD's unique and substantial value as a world cultural monument and to dedicate its management to trusted, proven organizations that have introduced and guided the arts to the World Wide Web since its inception.

Although the Court held the woman's rights were not absolute, her right to elect an abortion did have real and substantial protection as an exercise of her liberty under the Due Process Clause.

The play and its ideas remain as substantial as a soggy tissue, but the talk and action are fluid, the mood menacing — Mr. Polanski, as evident from films like "Rosemary's Baby," has a feel for domestic horror — and the cast is very fine.

The wine list here is substantial, as are prices.

This is substantial as a merit, and one of the strongest attributes of the model.

Simultaneously the divide between cross- and slip-links becomes substantial, as an extensibility grows sharply.

The discounts are nearly as substantial as a good traditional sale.

These deceptively simple tales of life in the Central Asian borderlands are rendered with such poise and power that each felt as substantial as an epic poem.