Sentence examples for bit of substance from inspiring English sources

For the woman on your shopping list who likes a bit of substance with her style, there is the heart-shaped stainless steel pendant that opens to reveal a one-gigabyte flash drive.

"Requiem," set to a lush Benjamin Britten composition, has a bit of substance in its moody depiction of the crowd, which repeatedly sweeps up the individual in its sinister wake.

By using slideshow presentations instead of paragraphs, I felt that the pages felt a bit bare, and there definitely wasn't enough text on each page for me, as I enjoy books with a bit of substance.

It is all very well to make a show of keeping his inauguration simple and making his staff work on New Year's Day; but after four years of drift the good folk of New York hope to see a bit of substance, as well as a change of style.

Instead, Telewest merged with Flextech, leaving Mr Singer with a company that today is worth £6.7 billion ($9.9 billion) and another idea in need of a bit of substance.The problem for telcos, says Mr Singer (he regards cable companies as telecoms firms, since that is their primary business in Britain) is competition.

All told, the speech was a mix of style — rousing the base, hitting the right anecdotes — and a bit of substance around actual policy proposals like the immigration deal.

When he injected a tiny bit of the substance into cross-eyed monkeys, their pupils realigned.

He conjures an eclectic, intellectually charged time when a Hungarian anatomist gave lectures to artists, explaining that with "a drop of blood, a little bit of brain substance, you will be transported to a fairy-tale world".

A. Fish contains quite a bit of a substance that gives rise to two chemicals that make the rotten-fish smell, while red meat has hardly any, said Dr. Joseph H. Hotchkiss, a professor of food science at Cornell University.

In between ordinary Valpolicella and Amarone is another style of wine called ripasso, which is made by adding the squeezed remains of Amarone grapes to the juice, imbuing the wine with a bit of the substance and flesh of its bigger brother.

The flip-flop in billing is partly a nod to local bias and to the fact that Grant is, after all, buried right here in New York, where he was a bit of a substance abuser and lost a fortune on Wall Street — he was one of us, in other words — while in Richmond they prefer the white-bearded patriarch who seemingly had no faults at all.