For in the end, there is no substitute for the experience of a performance.
Still, it's no substitute for the experience of watching him propel this working band, in a fast and furious present tense.
Still, she added, nothing the museum does before it reopens will substitute for the experience of confronting, head-on, an artwork that may seem small on a screen but actually looms larger than life.
There's no substitute for the experience of seeing film prints projected big in theatres — film is tactile, and the very size of the image entails the effect of being engulfed by it.
While I have followed the Katine project closely since its inception, no amount of reading can substitute for the experience of seeing what is really happening in the area with one's own eyes.
An electronic dictionary, interpreter or guide is no substitute for the experience of immersing oneself in a culture and negotiating life in a foreign country in a foreign language.
But … but, well, there's still no substitute for the experience of close reading as we've come to understand and appreciate it – the capacity to imagine entire worlds from parsing a few lines of text; the ability to achieve deep and meditative levels of absorption in others' psyches.
Those of us for whom books are a faith in themselves — who find the notion that pixels, however ordered, could be any kind of substitute for the experience of reading in a chair with the strange thing spread open on our lap — will love this book.
