Sentence examples for insubstantial ideas from inspiring English sources

As he sees it, Chicago is about theory, deep thinking and big ideas, while he is about empiricism, clever thinking and "cute but ultimately insubstantial ideas".

It is better than they reject insubstantial ideas after a few weeks of trying, rather than wait months to discover their lack of viability.

It had been a curiously insubstantial affair, thought Alfred.

Thomas did not believe in such things, of course, though it was hard not to try to imagine them, if only to savor the impossibility of the idea: the two insubstantial souls greeting each other in the ether, the airy embrace.

They lived in the world of ideas, where Clifford's insubstantial writing had brought him a certain celebrity among the well-to-do London literati.

To anticipate the onslaught of standardized tests (ASK, GEPA, HSPA) by helping students comb insubstantial texts in search of "main ideas" that aren't worth finding.

I lament the idea that this very simplistic and insubstantial version of games has enjoyed such success.

But, even judged in these terms, many of the ideas that the administration has come up with look insubstantial or worse.

I thought he was light, frothy, insubstantial".

Most other proposals have tried to delineate in some other way the Aristotelian idea that the logical expressions have some kind of "insubstantial" meaning, so as to use it as a necessary and sufficient condition for logicality.

At best, it can be framed as a necessary corrective, but the whole PR 'brand Africa' shtick is boring, patronizing and finally insubstantial in its attempt to transform the West's time-honored way of imagining the continent, ideas that are thoroughly tangled up with ingrained and much beloved supremacist notions of Euro-American culture and identity".