Sentence examples for insubstantial form from inspiring English sources

Ms. Coppola's movies tend to take the insubstantial form of reveries: ethereal, languid, apt to evaporate on contact.

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

For many people, Mr Bush has always been an insubstantial figure.

Reviewing the poem in the Times Book Review, Mary Lefkowitz noted, "References to the ancient past, brief and insubstantial as they may seem, form the foundation of Mr. Walcott's poem.

This prevents associations from being formed based on insubstantial overlaps.

A mycelium (albeit a relatively insubstantial one) can even be formed in the absence of septa, for example in an ftsZ mutant (McCormick et al., 1994; McCormick, 2009).

By the end — which, true to form, feels cheerful but insubstantial — the film is relying on the charms of its cast.

And the girls remain sort of insubstantial.

Although the stem is hollow, the cap has an insubstantial layer of white flesh.

(Jacobi, 1792: 156ff) Allwill thus moves in his social circle as an insubstantial being, one who appears now under one form, now under another, all the time giving the impression of an inner core that he in fact does not possess.

Catchy dance songs can come in all forms, and often they can be utterly insubstantial, but sometimes remain annoyingly cool, perhaps because of the sound, or simply because we associated them with a soft toy.