When it comes to that richly comic sequence where the dogs run round the parade ring to be judged, with their owners holding the lead, trying to keep up, often wearing clothing entirely unsuitable for a vigorous jog, and the commentator Frank Kane says, "Beautiful substance, strong shoulders, lovely outline, slight slope from the withers," there is very little chance I will be looking at the dog.
When beautiful, substance-abusing people treat their children negligently, they scar them with legacies of doubt, pain and self-loathing.
In the past he has produced works with trendy undertones (his 1994 "Divergence" was, in his words, "a grunge-tutu ballet") or with more flash, however beautiful, than substance (as in "Orange," a piece he created for the New York-based DanceGalaxy last summer).
Constructed almost entirely of travertine stone, a beautiful, marble-like substance, the hotel has 140 guest rooms, including eight suites and 65 junior suites, arranged in an airy semi-circle around the thermal pools.
In his 1996 companion volume to the American Museum of Natural History's exhibition "Amber: Window to the Past," curator David A. Grimaldi puts it in botanical perspective: "It is ironic that such a beautiful and mystical substance as amber is…just a by-product of trees defending themselves against insects and disease".
Pipes eyes are opened wide to a beautiful world without substances.
This is a man in sumptuous robes with nothing of substance underneath; beautiful to look at, but as ephemeral and menacing as smoke.
At first sight you may think that something so beautiful couldn't possibly have substance.
The substance of The Beautiful Struggle – a kind of hip-hop Portrait of the Artist, denser in its poetry than the new book – is the story of their relationship.
An inveterate partier and ladies' man, he had as much of an affinity for mind-altering substances and abundant, beautiful women as any of Atlantic's musicians ever did.
The scene you describe is but a trivial element of the society, missing the real substance of Miami Beach's beautiful lifestyle.
