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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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Topics include the tensions between form and substance in reform, the art and science of universities protecting and promoting themselves, and the particulars of business schools and doctoral programs.
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.
The young choristers take up the musical challenge with aplomb, paying no attention to the difficulty of the score and clearly responding to both its form and substance.
 
 
 
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