Sentence examples for substances but a from inspiring English sources

This is a restatement of the position developed by Stein (1968) in his famous exchange with Grünbaum, according to which spacetime is neither a substance, not a set of relations between substances, but a structure in its own right.

This summer is a reminder that water is not a neutral substance but a powerful solvent.

His style isn't substance but a decoration of substance; its essence is in tropes, not in compositions.

It's just a carnival of vacuity, a shimmering mirage, not just a victory of style over substance, but a total hammering.

On closer examination, though, privacy proves to be the Cheshire cat of values: not much substance, but a very winning smile.

So far, trials of delivery drones for everyday folks have been rather more hype than substance, but a new service in Iceland may change that.

The difference between natural and spiritual freedom is not a matter of metaphysical substance but a difference in the practical self-relation exhibited by human beings and other animals.

Hamby said that the Romney campaign's open disdain for his tweeting press corps was borne largely from the belief that what they wanted was not substance, but a gaffe or meme-worthy moment to blast out to followers.

Republicans have offered precious little of substance but a lot of bromides ("A free world is a more peaceful world!") meant to convey profundity and take passive-aggressive digs at President Obama.

The idea of the immortal soul is challenged by the anatta ("no soul") doctrine, with its claim that the personal mind or soul is not an enduring substance but a succession of fleeting moments of consciousness.

For Whitehead, an actual occasion (or actual entity) is not an enduring substance, but a process of becoming.