There is no total isolation or complete difference between substances.

Throughout the day, there was an alternating between politics and substance.

The trade-off with him is always between style and substance.

There is always an organic connection between style and substance.

Even so, it was hard to discern between shadow and substance.

But the disparity between surface and substance goes deeper than that.

Another difference involves the never-ending battle between style and substance.

He states that "there can be no distinction drawn, save in reflection, between form and substance."

"I know the difference between slander and substance and I'm sure you do as well."

The opposition between substance and relation was given a theological perspective in the Christian era.