Sentence examples for substantive taste from inspiring English sources
Election enthusiasts who've been gleefully gossiping for months about the narratives that will frame November's midterm contests got their first substantive taste of the season this week, sparking a predictable, if misguided, assault on the young voters who defined the country's historic engagement levels in 2008.
I had grown up listening to music oblivious to the domineering constructs of ubiquitous genre definition, the invisible architecture of non-substantive taste.
Whether it's a Belizean getaway offering chocolate-making seminars grounded in Maya traditions or a remote Amazonian complex that began as a scientific research station and supports visiting scholars on wildlife surveys, a few jungle ecolodges are distinguishing themselves from the rest by inviting guests to get a taste of the local culture and environment in substantive ways.
Rather than a carefully chosen appetizer followed by a substantive entrée and (usually frothy) dessert, the concert was an eclectic tasting event, featuring 19 wildly divergent styles, influences and texts, which gave a listener the dizzying sense of newly discovered marvels -- and future possibilities -- in the art of song.
The idea is that these substantive judgments are aesthetic in virtue of a special close relation to verdictive judgments of taste, which are subjectively universal.
There are substantive issues.
It felt more substantive, deeper.
The candidates discussed substantive issues.
