Chemesthesis, the ability to detect chemical stimuli by the somatosensory system, enables the avoidance of potentially dangerous substances and is of considerable importance to an organism's survival.
He was a man of considerable substance.
This low profitability has not stopped Amazon EU growing to become a business of considerable substance.
Black's performance is a revelation: foregoing his usual repertoire of jiggling, tics and head-waggling craziness, Black ensures Tiede is a satirical creation of considerable substance.
Wolf Hall requires an actor of considerable substance, and provides Mark Rylance with an opportunity to showcase his talents to a far wider audience than his usual theatrical one.
Less visible, certainly less well attended, but of considerable substance was Anne-Marie McDermott at Alice Tully Hall on Monday playing the C minor and B flat Partitas and the G minor English Suite before intermission and music by Brahms after it.
In the good old days, especially in 18th- and 19th-century England at the high end of the social scale, afternoon tea was a ritual of considerable substance and extensive accessories.
Because the function of breakwaters is to absorb or throw back as completely as possible the energy content of the maximum sea waves assailing the coast, they must be structures of considerable substance.
But it is as a religious figure of considerable substance and power that he really made his mark.
Musicologist Julian Mincham notes that "Bach attached personal significance to this particular day and consequently sought to parade a work of considerable substance".
