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form and substance

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form and substance
structure and meaningful content. The first act of the play was one screaming match after another. It lacked form and substance throughout. Jane's report was good. The teacher commented on the excellent form and substance of the paper.
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Lest we worry that small children may not fully grasp the presence of irony or ambivalence, the contributors speak primarily to adult readers, describing the evolution of form and substance in children's picture books, defining the role of the artist in such books, and applying radical change theory.
There are also significant changes in both form and substance that make the Reform Treaty an entirely different proposition to the old Constitutional Treaty.
As Professor Jared Sexton of UC Irvine says in "The Rise of the Ghetto-Fabulous Party," participants of racist play "rely on the dynamics of racial segregation that have produced the ghetto for the very form and substance of the most public and the most intimate aspects of their social lives.
 
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