Sentence examples for insubstantial air from inspiring English sources

Burke also associated republican principles with alchemy and insubstantial air, mocking the scientific work done by both Priestley and French chemists.

The movie is alluringly insubstantial, like the light and air of the Luberon.

Unlike prick, which is so insubstantial, it flies away in the air.

Robert Fulford of The National Post hailed it as "eccentric and deliriously funny", while Rolling Stones Phil Whitman remarked that the director's "bracing, original comedy may be mostly smoke and air, but it's not insubstantial".

Their machine was a fragile piece of minimalist engineering, an insubstantial butterfly compared with the eagles of technology that later took to the air.

I would guess her influence is not insubstantial; partially because of her fame, but also because she gives off an overwhelming air of sanity, the same tsk-tsk, eye-rolling, meritless gravitas assumed by so many of the more vehement anti-Corbyn lot.

Money is insubstantial now.

So far, so insubstantial.

'I want to paint the beauty of the air around them… to grasp the intangible.' Atmosphere, vapour, air tinted with smoke: he registers the slightest nuances in this insubstantial world between him and the object.

This insubstantial pageant has faded.

It is papery and insubstantial.