Sentence examples for was given substance from inspiring English sources

This taut 36-work summary of his development shows an artist whose artistic virtuosity was given substance by a religious vision of nature and an equally deep faith in the autonomy of paint as an expressive material.

Its reality was given substance when the BRICs held their first summit meeting in Russia this week.

On drug policy, measures in the District of Columbia and Ohio would require that certain nonviolent drug users be given substance abuse treatment rather than face jail.

The manager believes his team can reach Warsaw in May, the captain Phil Jagielka claimed likewise and their words were given substance by a convincing victory over Lille.

Such suspicions appear to have been given substance by an as-yet-unpublished SEC report into trading violations by the specialist firms that trade on the exchange.

Shakespeare of course had no need of such apparatus; the moon's "wat'ry light" is given "local habitation" (as the play's duke says) by Shakespeare's poetry; the insubstantial is given substance without need of lanterns and almanacs.

Rumours that Bambi was once a successful recording artist who studied at Central St Martin's School of Art have been given substance by her few interviews and by the comments of her manager, an Islington picture framer named Leonard Villa.

The contemporary setting – a night shelter for homeless women on Los Angeles' Skid Row, according to Sellars – is given substance in the razor-wire-topped fences and billowing canvas of Georges Tsypin's set.

Suspicions that Djokovic was out of sorts or carrying an injury after a desultory press conference on Thursday evening were given substance in a slow start, but he repaired the damage of an early break.

His statement is given substance by remarks of actors on the Hasidic side of the drama, like the man he calls Lazar Kamzoil whose home he visited on the Sabbath.

The fanciful menagerie is given substance by the beauty of Sanders's descriptions: we see "water fight itself down the drain"; curtains curl "like the toes of waves"; teeth become "torn bits of paper" capable of "thinning the dark".