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745 examples of Substance in a sentence

The picture is missing substance.
this attempt at a "thriller" would have no substance at all!
The feeling I get (same with Elephant)is that Gus Van Sant tries too hard to make an "artistic" movie which causes the movie itself to loose substance.
I think the movie was one sided I watched it recently and find the documentary typical of western movie makers that was biased without substance.
The creatures look pretty good but after seeing them for a few seconds, they don't seem to have any substance other than the look.
It lacks substance and style!
The substance part could have been forgiven if the acting was any good and if the director tried to do something original!
Without the substance you at least have to bring some style or decent action!
But in Madrid, a professor she knows has conducted some experiments on animals with a substance which regenerates cells.
Because the professor won't allow Dr. Bannister to be the first human guinea pig, she kills him and consumes the substance.
The only reason I give this a 2 is that Jeffrey Jones is ok as the priest and there is a bit of style (albiet zero substance) in the camerawork.
This movie simply had no substance.
The scenery is beautiful and the sex scene is hot -- but underneath his clothes, this king has no substance.
Aside from a few clever techniques employed, the movie rarely connects the dizzying thematics with the dull script, ultimately coming across as a cheap exploitation into the cult genre, substituting hollow imagery for genuine substance.
I do applaud the makers for at least trying to take the genre into more supernatural, metaphysical realms and understand the rough losses lost-in-translation, but with zero substance to back any of it's freakishness up this will likely be relegated to obscure fanboy's bong-ridden basements.
No real substance to it all happy and shallow.
the atmosphere was well drawn up, but the movie really lacked in substance.
I admire them for the try, but the "actors" in the movie at times seem to be trying to hard and no single character has substance or says anything mildly intelligent.
This documentary is a lot like many modern documentaries - there is a lot of flash but no real substance.
After the first virtually unwatchable 40 minutes, the film does improve (relatively), but it remains WAY too far-fetched (not to mention unfunny) to be successful as a satire, and has too little substance to succeed as a drama.
Some reviewers have been gulled into assuming that because perversion is depicted, the film is psychologically deep; actually, considering the salacious material, it is surprisingly tedious and shallow, with no motivational substance.
I only recently began reviewing films for the IMDB, and it was my initial intention to concentrate only on my own personal favorites, examining those which I believe are of substance and of lasting value to the horror genre.
As a serious movie, it lacks any sort of substance.
This new version lacks substance and feeling.
no substance, or even any sparkling show of emotions, drama , or even intriguing, stormy sex like in Lolita, this shallow movie has no wonder, fallen flat on it's face, and had to be wound up from the screens during first weeks !
The plot is very generic and has no substance that I could see, not to mention it had a major flaw in my eyes.
Nothing moved the story forward, it lacked substance, and the scares that made Halloween and H20 so good.
The characters were weak and often stereotyped and the story lacked substance.
It has failed on both style and substance.
"Hero and the Terror" is a fairly dull thriller - a la: no real character substance, predictable plot, and... Boring.
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