Sentence examples for shape and substance from inspiring English sources

Her biodynamic planting calendar has given shape and substance to our past five years of gardening.

Coincidentally enough, I looked, in texture, shape and substance, more or less like I got dressed right in the store.

Originally led by the witch-king of Angmar and the easterner Khamu, they were given rings to bind them into obedience to Sauron, and their character, shape and substance are gradually subsumed until they become spectral Nazgûl, "ring-wraiths".

With no single party expected to get a simple majority of seats in the 543-member Parliament, the shape and substance of the next administration will depend entirely on who locks arms with whom.

As a conceit for a drama, an architectural derby to design the first monument on the moon carries a pleasant-to-ponder and satiric set of metaphorical implications: the attempt to give shape and substance to dreams, perhaps, or the desire to stake a claim in the universe of ideas -- grand human urges rendered tacky by the element of competition.

Two new books look at the lengths to which Americans will go to change their shape and substance".Better Than Well" examines the fascination with "enhancement technologies", such as cosmetic surgery and "lifestyle" drugs, and public debate about the morality of artificial aids.

The first program, rather than simply being a medley of lighter works thrown together willy-nilly, had some shape and some substance: a sugar coating of Strauss around a substantial Lisztian core.

The Greek polis and the Roman res publica gave shape and concrete substance to the Aristotelian definition of perfect freedom of the citizen of the ancient world, who was neither sovereign nor subject, but on different occasions "governor" and "governed", and capable, therefore both of commanding and obeying.

More than just a work in progress, the whole complex of thoughts and actions associated with voluntourism, volunteerism, volunteering, service learning, charity challenges, travel fundraisers etc. is constantly shifting its basic shape and its substance.

The story has a shape, and that comes first, and then the story and its shape need substance and nourishment from the haunting past, clear memories or incidents suddenly remembered or invented, erased or enriched.

Holz, who originally trained in scientific lampworking in his native Germany, began his love affair with organic shapes and amorphous substances while studying at the Royal College of Art; for his thesis, he produced a backless chair that looked like liquid mercury.