Sentence examples for substantive forms from inspiring English sources

This volume (three more are promised) auspiciously begins with two notes from Beckett to James Joyce, in the second of which (from April 1929) this 23-year-old lecturer at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris politely briefs the maestro on the distinction between the infinitive and substantive forms of a Greek phrase.

Based on fundamental studies of knowledge theory and epistemic game theory, it discusses the role of institutions in substantive forms as societal artifacts that cognitively mediate agents' strategic interactions and their individual beliefs in societal games.

While apologies are considered by some to make a significant contribution to reconciliation (Brooks 2004, M. Murphy 2011), others worry that, in political cases, apologies may be used as a substitute for more substantive forms of redress (Corntassel and Holder 2008).

While these are often more structured and more substantive forms of communication, dashboard metrics often focus on outcomes not within the direct control of the employee, while most periodic performance reviews are notoriously lacking in effectiveness.

… [God] gives all creatures substantive form, that is, specific form, by which the thing is distinguished from something else" (Jospe, Torah and Sophia, 468).

Robert Vischer was the first to introduce the term "Einfühlung" in a more technical sense and in using the substantive form he indicates that it is a worthy object of philosophical analysis in his "On the Optical Sense of Form: A contribution to Aesthetics" (1873).

What the Philippines needs isn't tyrannical rule, but instead a deepened and substantive form of democracy, which can end the grip of the oligarchic class on one of the most under-performing nations on earth.

However, whether the substantive form of the doctrine is protected in Singapore is not clear due to the dearth of cases and lack of definite pronouncements by the courts in judgments that have been rendered.

(That attitude, or something like it, has got him in hot water, on occasion, as when he quipped that hip-hop was not the most substantive of art forms).

The murmurs and musings have burgeoned into a fully formed, substantive and fascinating drama: Chris Paul, one of the N.B.A.'s top point guards, wants to be traded out of New Orleans.

"She has been key in the museum's growing success over the years and has been especially adept at forming substantive partnerships in New York, in Washington, across the nation and, indeed, around the world," the Smithsonian secretary, Wayne Clough, said in announcing the appointment.