It's Creative Writing 101, the basic stuff of "show, don't tell".
To all of this, Reznor added the basic stuff of rock: loud, distorted guitars.
The art is about the basic stuff of sculpture, isolated and recast: mass, weight, volume, material.
Proteins are the basic stuff of organic tissues, and nitrogen is an essential element of all proteins.
Numbers, addition, multiplication — the basic stuff of grade-school arithmetic — are suddenly the excited talk of cutting-edge mathematicians.
This most basic stuff of life is denser when liquid than they might have expected and lighter when solid.
One was the basic stuff of postmodern art: exploding genre and format, breaking down the fourth wall, making the private public, exposing process and the self.
Northern Ireland's universities turn out top-notch graduates in physics, life sciences, computing and the like the basic stuff of start-ups.
It is a breathtakingly broad list, including "economic and social cohesion", security and justice, social policy, transport and public health: in other words, most of the basic stuff of national politics.Those who like the draft say soothingly that its sweep should not be exaggerated.
The subject of the movie is the passion for art, but the filmmakers' casual way with the basic stuff of the cinema when it gets in the way of theatrical flourishes suggests that, while using the cinema as a vehicle for the ballet and a feast for its devotees, the one art they seemed to have contempt for is the cinema itself, which, in their view, needed the ballet to ennoble it.
