Sentence examples for almost insubstantial from inspiring English sources

Andy Warhol refined the image of Marilyn Monroe till it was almost insubstantial, a hieroglyph in place of a likeness, with neither age nor identity nor expression.

Three oysters marinated in a rice-vinegar mignonette are small and almost insubstantial, but a terrific chive-and-red-onion crème fraîche bring them to life.

Speaking of her installation here, she makes reference to an almost insubstantial compositional ambition: "I am preoccupied with trying to find ways to float material, form and colour at eye level".

Heard live in the Albert Hall, the music seemed elusive, fragile and almost insubstantial, but the Radio 3 broadcast gave a much better sense of the world that Holt builds around the solo instrument in the opening movement, in which a cimbalom adds a threatening edge to some of the textures, and the lower strings leave the flute suspended in its own space.

Apple then contrasts that with what the judge had to say about the Galaxy Tab: "very thin, almost insubstantial" with "unusual details on the back" — and the conclusion: "not cool".

From the front they belong to the family which includes the Apple design; but the Samsung products are very thin, almost insubstantial members of that family with unusual details on the back.

Each Caprice is an ambitious, virtuosic showpiece that's almost exclusively made from the most insubstantial of violin sounds: ethereal, whistle-like harmonics.

But taken strictly as a display of photography, it feels awfully thin, mostly because Warhol's output in the medium was almost willfully insubstantial.

Mrs. Sheridan melts into the landscape, while Lady Bate Dudley, a symphony in blue and green, is an insubstantial form, almost an abstract.

There is something fundamentally facile and insubstantial about a forced expression of regret.

It is believed that spring (mineral) water looses most of its insubstantial properties when far removed from its source.