As for the remainder of these pieces, they are little more than insubstantial shadows, as ghostly, in many ways, as the specters they describe.
Her rape by an unknown intruder is recorded in "June 15 , 1998" an uncharacteristically pale, sparse painting in which she renders her attacker as an insubstantial gray shadow on her upper torso and turned-away face.
Which is why Meyronnis tells us infinitely more about the onrushing disaster than do the self-proclaimed scholars of economics who, for a long time now, and like the object they study, have been as insubstantial as shadows.
His disengagement left her feeling insubstantial, marginalised, a shadow.
At the same time, because they're just roughly sketched in black, they look insubstantial, even accidental, like shadows or spreading stains.
Shadows are insubstantial.
Still, Ms. Rowling is very much a phenomenon of this era, and in the counterview her work is in the same league as the other fleeting shadows of an insubstantial, market- and celebrity-oriented age.
The shadow theatre is a medium of great delicacy, and the insubstantial character of shadow puppets exemplifies all the truest features of puppetry as an art form.
In many of Shakespeare's plays he reminds us that what we have witnessed is insubstantial, conjured up by his magic and our imaginations – Macbeth's "walking shadow", Prospero's "airy charm" and many more.
