The sculptures resemble heads, held up on rods, balanced on insubstantial, make-do wooden plinths.
Here, the dens were insubstantial constructions made in the boys' down-time.
Although Ukraine's insubstantial statehood makes it particularly susceptible to outside interference, the main source of its troubles is the diminished superpower next door.
These advertising men and women work hard to make insubstantial perceptions harden into realities that everyone takes for granted; their jobs revolve around turning malleable opinions into perceived facts.
It added, "No copyist need now fear the doctrine of equivalents and only a fool would fail to make an insubstantial change to avoid the literal terms of a patent claim".
Their bodies are at once wraiths, made insubstantial by technology, and corporeal, aching with feeling.
And I strongly question Mr. Elie's conclusion that today it is "music played live that seems insubstantial and elusive, made somewhere once for a little while and then allowed to go away".
These stories warn that if the real becomes mutable or untrustworthy, our experience of ourselves (not to mention each other) may become insubstantial, that what makes life meaningful is a certain intractability, a resistance to our desires.
This particular variation on the caper formula is a revenge drama in which a team of honorable thieves led by Mr. Wahlberg plots to steal back the stolen gold that was hijacked by a traitor (Mr. Norton) after an earlier heist: insubstantial but well made for its type (Holden).
But if you look below the hearty performances of Cillian Murphy, Jim Broadbent and Brendan Gleeson, actors who can make the most insubstantial blarney seem significant, what you discover is a hectic, ultraviolent romp that is inordinately pleased with its own sardonic nihilism.
The sums involved make Russian weightlifters look insubstantial.
