So a four-movement, 20-minute string quartet emerges as a rigorous, interrelated and organic whole, as substantive as any symphony.
Reform in Ireland took a whole century before substantive results were achieved, in the mid-1930s, after Ireland was divided into Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State.
This was the substantive whole of the "voodoo economics" phrase.
There's also a handful of other players involved in LENR research and development but their stories are, on the whole, lacking in substantive detail... either they are intentionally flying "under the radar" while they develop their products or they are doing something else such as research.
It's still the Silly Season in Washington, so we don't have a whole lot of substantive political talking points this week.
That's not the result of any flaw in the way the summit was run — while there was more speechifying than dialogue, in general the whole event was more substantive than one might have imagined, and Barack Obama was, on the whole, a effective moderator.
"There is not a whole lot of disagreement on substantive issues, so every little thing -- police shootings, gasoline prices, marching in parades -- becomes a big thing," he said, adding, "I am not saying that a shooting is a little thing, only in relation to what one normally thinks of in terms of issues surrounding an election of national importance".
Asked by reporters if Ukraine would come up, Peskov said: "This is the first telephone contact since President Trump took office, so one should hardly expect that (it)...will involve substantive discussions across the whole range of issues.
But aides to President Fox said the informal appearances belied the substantive discussions that lasted through the whole meeting.
The family papers are not especially substantive, and the collection as a whole does not contain much material of a personal nature.
