Sentence examples for the substantial things from inspiring English sources

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.

Strictly speaking, the only substantial things to exist at any level of reality are simple substances.

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.

He told presenter Hayley Millar: "I think the most substantial thing that I am proud of, and the administration should be, is the establishment of a social contract between the Scottish government and the people of Scotland in extraordinarily tough times.

Get in touch with all the small, silly and substantial things that make you smile.

Is this the last substantial thing you want to say about George?

People are objecting to tactics -- that's not the most substantial thing.

As the junkie Harry, a wasted pretty boy, he seems kept aloft by his eyelashes, the only substantial thing on his frame.

In today's New York Times friends have reported that Palin's hair, which had been the most substantial thing about her, has been thinning.

I mean take Obama and that big meeting he had in Latin America: what becomes the big substantial thing that we talked about is that Obama shook hands with Chavez; he had a smile on his face when he shook hands.

The article talks about how instead of craving attention she has been doing substantial things in the past few years.