According to Sherry, Nixon "indulged the rituals of cultural empire... but had no investment in their substance".
In their substance, her poems are often obsessed with the violence in the world to the exclusion of other areas of human experience.
Trump's comments about immigrants from Mexico drew condemnation from many Republicans for his impolitic tone, but, in their substance, his views are widely shared within the Party.
Both in their substance and in the circumstances of their writing, Grant's memoirs offer answers to the big question of Civil War history: Why did the North win?
The Stones camp in 1971 was divided between burgeoning addicts Richards and Taylor, but also most of the production team (Jimmy Miller, Andy Johns) and the sidemen (Bobby Keys)—and Jagger, Bill Wyman, and Charlie Watts, who were more moderate in their substance abuse.
Chazelle strives to impress, to wow, to dazzle — but not to inspire; his musical ideas and visual sensibility are jolting neither in their surfaces nor in their substance, neither in their action nor in their images; they close off the imagination rather than opening it.
Medieval theology, especially as it appears in St. Thomas Aquinas Summaa theologiae, contained and fashioned syntheses from ideas about man and society ideas indeed that may be seen to be political, social, economic, anthropological, and geographical in their substance.
Mailer may well be best remembered as an author of essays and, above all, of a sort of literary journalism that is one of the enduring and fertile inventions of the time, but the novel was his touchstone of artistic experience and achievement, and the letters show, both in their substance and in their style, how he got sidetracked.
We're also opening anonymous send-ins to Spain, so anyone, anywhere in the world would be able to send in their substance and have it evaluated," he says.
