Those terms sound sophisticated — but they're really just linguistic carnival barkers, void of substance.
But after the Long Beach City Council voted last week to duplicate many of Mr. Nyman's responsibilities in a different office, some of his constituents wonder whether his job had become so void of substance that he might as well spend his days on the white sandy beach just a 10-minute walk from his office in city hall.
It looks blurry and weak, void of substance and plain.
The president applauded Romney as a savvy businessman, but said he would never have accepted a plan as void of substance as the one he was currently pushing.
He currently has two light pieces exhibiting at the Zadok Gallery in Miami in a show called Void and Substance, which features Cracked and a glowing race car F-1.
As absolute both duration and void are substances in the sense that they have an existence independent of anything else and thus in principle could exist if everything else failed to exist.
But often these products aimed at being affordable and, well, void of any substance.
By Richard Brody February 22, 2018 "Game Night" feels like a throwback to the showily crafted entertainments of classic Hollywood, voided of its substance and symbols.
Whereas atoms are primary principles of material substance, voids are non-substantival principles of separation in which bodies are located, and by which they are separated and have their particular sort of supra-atomic structure.
Histochemical and surface analyses revealed the presence of calcified deposits within a void in the optic substance.
As reported previously by FORBES's Darren Heitner, the daily fantasy sports operator Draft Ops, which seeks out of its exclusive endorsement contract with the Minnesota Wild, has argued in court documents that a contract that it had previously signed with the Minnesota Wild is void because the underlying substance of the contract (daily fantasy sports in Minnesota) is, in itself, illegal.
