"Everything that happened the day before becomes insubstantial when you come home".
When these scientific advances are translated into popular belief and cultural stories, they are often stripped of the complexity of the science and become comically insubstantial narratives.
For many Afghans, as a result, Mr. Karzai has become an insubstantial figure, clearer for what he stands for than for who he is or what he has done.
If his resurrection is merely a myth to imbue our lives with meaning, the meaning is spoiled by its lack of veracity and it becomes as insubstantial as stories of the Easter Bunny.
In 1972, in Ways of Seeing, John Berger described how, "for the first time ever, images of art have become ephemeral, ubiquitous, insubstantial, available, valueless, free".
I was covered in the dark, haemorrhagic blotches of the illness, feeling as though I had become my own insubstantial shadow.
As he starts to uncover more of his real family history, the substitute family he has collected around himself – his stepmother, racist Major Charge next door and gentle Miss Keene, tatting enthusiast and possible wife material – all become colourless and insubstantial compared to his aunt's stories and the travelling he undertakes with her.
The antique tradition of illusionistic naturalism continued in painting in Rome through the early Christian period; but toward 600 it weakened, and figures became flat and insubstantial.
Taylor deftly illustrates the dynamics at play between these three characters: Cressy becomes slighter and more insubstantial as the novel progresses, her early edge of wilfulness almost totally blunted, while Midge becomes increasingly dominant.
Sometimes, like an enraged tethered bear, Mr Brown fights back, howling that Mr Cameron is merely a "shallow salesman", an insubstantial con man.It has become a platitude of political commentary in Britain to envy the drama that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton brought to American politics.
