Sentence examples for insubstantial as from inspiring English sources

On the other side lay the fact that in doing so I, and we at TreeHugger, might be in some way signing on to Gershon's speech act and one that in the content of it was fairly insubstantial as far as commentary goes.

But in the end, Dano's dream girl is still as fuzzy and insubstantial as a dream.

It is a start, but ultimately as insubstantial as a Pray for Gazza hashtag.

His speeches become dull and mechanical, his arguments as insubstantial as his eyebrows.

In this place, truth, certainty and faith would always be as insubstantial as the sands.

Brand recognize Brand, and Cruz is happy to cross-promote one as insubstantial as his.

He advises parents to cushion the upset by giving a "not insubstantial" gift -- as soon as the prenuptial is signed.

Discussing "The Discomfort Zone," a "thin and insubstantial" essay collection, as well as the novelist's peevish response to being selected for Oprah's Book Club, Mendelsohn attributes Franzen's habit of "snide superiority" to a case of arrested adolescence so severe it amounts to a "political and aesthetic autism".

As for the remainder of these pieces, they are little more than insubstantial shadows, as ghostly, in many ways, as the specters they describe.

It will likely be as insubstantial and ineffective as Brandis and Turnbull's anxious presser.

Christian Fenouillat's charming set is made up of cool, sliding paper screens, as insubstantial and changing as Pinkerton's devotion to Butterfly, all bathed in Christophe Forey's wonderfully evocative lighting design.