Sentence examples for insubstantial it from inspiring English sources

Initially considered gimmicky and insubstantial, it gradually developed a reputation for higher quality while increasing its circulation and advertising revenues at a time when few papers were experiencing growth.

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

When the charges proved insubstantial, it was revealed that de Villepin had been aware of their falsity, but had allegedly used the affair to taint his rival.

But the dialogue in the scene is minor, forgettable, and insubstantial; it had me recalling the other great laundromat scene of yearningly romantic youth, the one from "Masculine Feminine," filmed in 1965 (one of the subjects was Bob Dylan).

But with Lord Justice Leveson's report into phone-hacking pending, if the BBC review is seen as insubstantial it will provoke charges that there is one law for the tabloids and another for Auntie.Was it simply a case of behaviour being accepted in the star-struck, newly liberated 1960s and 1970s that would not be allowed today, as some claim?

It makes a little more sense when you consider that software, possibly the greatest generator of wealth and innovation, is completely insubstantial; it may reside on tape or a disc, but it is really just a series of statements about how something should be organized.

Although it's little more than insubstantial froth, it has a unique taste.

This one is pretty insubstantial, but it linked the neat demo video above so it's worth mentioning.

The amount is not insubstantial, but it appears to fall short of targets originally envisioned by Obama fund-raisers.

On this insubstantial evidence it has been claimed that the Chinese anticipated Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the blood.

Liveliness, precision, weight: these old-fashioned mimetic virtues, and the broad sympathy that calls them into being, cannot be taken for granted during a time when the producers and consumers alike of fiction have had their sensibilities early deadened by an incessant barrage of visual entertainment as insubstantial as it is eye-catching.