Ideally he would be — "Is it one of them what you see through?" A hand, lousy with blue veins, reached out for the light encircling the boy's head, as if it were a substantial thing, to be grasped like the handle of a mug.
More recently, Klemetti's daughter Solja, aged 23, shared the sense of excitement that her mother had once experienced, when she took possession of the "first substantial thing" prior to the baby itself.
"The problem is that Iran is stuck in its position: it has to give up substantial things — trump cards — for talks to proceed substantively, and it needs serious concessions in return".
Former Gov. Brendan T. Byrne, the person who, above anyone else, is credited by history with bringing major sports to New Jersey, said that the state's national profile was owed to "more substantial things" than its role in primary elections, mentioning its top universities, major tourist destinations like Atlantic City and, yes, its sports teams.
It is only now that I can think of the luxury of a man's children choosing to dispose of the substantial things he might have left for them, choosing to keep only the recipes for pies and cuttings of old roses — choosing memories, as opposed to the real thing, the house.
You start on the weather, speculate on whether the bus will be on time, then move on to more substantial things.
'Had he lived,' says De Cadenet, 'he would have wanted to do substantial things.' In the end, he did not leave much behind, apart from a mixed bag of mem.
The real "Unsung Heroes" deserves better, though Poirier is bound to write far more substantial things.
