Sentence examples for in tone and in substance from inspiring English sources

In tone and in substance, the liberals were sending the message that they were in charge.

John McCain talks about new kinds of threat sometimes, too, but his views on foreign policy are completely different from Obama's, in tone and in substance.

Mr. Cheney's aides insist that any miscalculations by the vice president were in tone and not in substance, and that at any rate he is now back on course.

They were different in tone and substance, in form and content, in intention and energy – not perfect mirror images, but with opposing moods and visions: dark/light, fear/hope, me/us.

… [T]he White House is preparing a major shift in tone and substance in the hopes of reasserting Obama's leadership abilities heading into the next election.

In discovering the inner worlds of such directors as Hawks and Hitchcock, Nicholas Ray and Anthony Mann and Douglas Sirk, his writing foreshadowed in tone and substance, in insolence and depth, in rapture and creative fury — and in interpretive freedom — the movies he would make.

The rest of the speech was similarly moderate in tone and substance.

There are several possible explanations for the change in tone — and, we hope — substance.

"This address was surprisingly similar to what we are used to hearing from Iran, both in tone and substance".

Compare that in tone and substance with the following statement made four years ago by Louis Farrakhan in reference to American Jews: "You are wicked deceivers of the American people.

In tone and substance, it is nothing like what one finds in presidential libraries devoted to Truman and Hoover, for example.