Sentence examples for insubstantial compared from inspiring English sources

All of this work seemed oddly insubstantial compared to the found photographs presented by French curator Daine Dufour, which centre on the popular uprising in Turkey in 1968.

"People worry about side effects from staying on medication for a lifetime, but these effects seem insubstantial compared with the lethality of undertreated depression.

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.

I had been careless enough to say that his gift to the Clinton Foundation was insubstantial compared to the kindness of his Canadian partner or certain Arab businessmen.

In his tome, a definitive work on depression, Andrew Solomon quoted Robert Post of the NIMH, whose words still ring true: "People worry about side effects from staying on medication for a lifetime, but the side effects of doing that appear to be insubstantial, very insubstantial compared to the lethality of undertreated depression".

However, in our opinion, based on experience as scientists and microbiologists, we deem the possible consequences described by Cox et al. as insubstantial compared to the clear and present danger to human health of continuing fluoroquinolone use in poultry.

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

She felt insubstantial, especially compared with Mr. Baussan, so successful and "so rooted in Provence that he smelled like citrus and sandalwood".

Insubstantial, at least, compared with another new book that has its roots in the same ambitious-young-writer-looking-for-a-subject impulse.

So how, one wonders, does the man who brought the first major Picasso retrospective to the United States now seem so insubstantial a figure when compared with his contemporary at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Alfred Barr (who was a great admirer of Austin)?

The flesh is dense and sweet compared with the tender, insubstantial flesh of immature zucchini and summer squashes.