The Left Bank, Rhys's debut collection, which Ford Madox Ford helped bring to publication, comprises a series of modernist fragments in which hard-up bohemians get mournfully smashed in Paris: "But there she was stony-broke and with a hand that was rapidly losing its cunning, seeking oblivion in a cheap Montparnasse café." Much of it resembles the most insubstantial parts of Maupassant.
Western intelligence agencies' knowledge of which rebel groups occupy which neighborhoods is insubstantial, in part because the groups often come together and then break apart.
It's a showy but insubstantial piece.
However, the contribution to Aβ clearance by the CP is not insubstantial, owing in part to the high levels of Aβ degrading enzymes present [ 33].
While the lists may come to seem more insubstantial and shadowy as the first part of the book progresses, they also offer the novel's narrator Jack Gladney something solid to cling onto, helping distract him from the thing he fears the most.
The appeals court called the portion "not insubstantial".
"I think it is slightly cynical in its timing; it is rather insubstantial in its content and it is not part of an overall approach," Cameron said on GMTV.
Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat former deputy prime minister, appeared on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday making the case for staying in the EU but saying that parts of Cameron's renegotiation were insubstantial.
Some commentators during the Revolution detected prerevolutionary sentiments in The Marriage of Figaro, but the evidence is too insubstantial to argue for any intention on the author's part.
The story is told – or part of it – in this intensely enjoyable, entirely insubstantial movie featuring glorious performances from Kenneth Branagh and Michelle Williams as Olivier and Monroe, participants in a love triangle of two stars and a nobody.
It quantifies the not insubstantial costs associated with overweight and obesity currently in both parts of Ireland.
