But I had to turn around a massive emphasis on style over substance.

The contrast between the women is used to examine a society that values surface over substance.

"Do you think this is an era of style over substance?"

It is also a society that often values form over substance.

The focus was said to be on 'economic reality', and form over substance.

A. They make it a point to stress style over substance.

There seems to be a lot of style over substance.

I'm someone who's always been seduced by style over substance.

In an interview last week from his Boston office, he said the case was "a triumph of form over substance."

If this sounds like the triumph of politics over substance, it is.