Sentence examples for all too substantial from inspiring English sources

Like most good Menippean satires, The Master and Margarita ends up feeling all too substantial.

To be caught somewhere between the malevolent if insubstantial will of the terrorists -- between their intention, their purpose, that is -- and the all too substantial destruction of buildings that defined what we take for granted in this city was the fate of most New Yorkers that morning.

Again, all the reasons the "Argo" bump isn't too substantial -- the Hollywood Foreign Press doesn't vote for Oscars, being a big one -- hold true in the opposite direction for "Silver Linings," but: It needs a boost.

And she has, since both Adair and the major prove much too substantial to throw all else to the winds.

But [the book's heroine] Roberta herself is too substantial to be a caricature.

And five whole grilled sardines -- briny, smoky, crunchy -- are almost too substantial to be an appetizer.

Wilson was tempted to sack him, but by now Healey was too substantial a figure.

Although perhaps too substantial for a first course, risotto with white truffle and porcini was splendid nonetheless.

Yet, despite his flameout over the prostitution scandal, Morris's success was too substantial to be so easily dismissed.

It is a ravishing dish, in its way, but far too substantial in flavor, texture and portion to qualify as a palate-tickler.

A wide assortment of pastas are offered as a first course -- an Italian custom I've never entirely understood, since they seem too substantial to work as appetizers.