Or as if he were a ghost with no material substance.

Aquinas maintains that a human is a single material substance.

No material substance in the universe could have resisted it.

It was not a material substance which could be touched.

The material substance of the bodies will be so light as to cast no shadow.

There are various particular material substances such as gold and lead, of which we have various ideas.

More than metaphors for life, they embody the material substance of birth, growth, aging and death.

If there are no material substances, then it must be an immaterial substance.

And yet both photos show the same body, the same material substance.

The most persuasive works in the show are essentially silhouettes with a lot of material substance.