Sentence examples similar to insubstantial stuff from inspiring English sources

The main web we have for holding experience together, the novel suggests — for recreating a past in the present — is language itself, which in Ms. Smith's hands seems at times to be arbitrary and insubstantial: the stuff of jokes and puns, the airy lightness that keeps her little construct aloft.

Pop is often dismissed as insubstantial and emotionally vacuous and this stuff is not.

(And the insubstantial signs of Aimée's mother are the flimsy stuff of ghost stories).

Minds, of course, are not bodies, and The Tempest is a play about disappearances – the "insubstantial pageant" of the world, and we humans who "are such stuff as dreams are made on".

There was a curious choreographic phenomenon at the Performing Garage on Thursday night: a dance absolutely stuffed with sights and sounds that nevertheless seemed insubstantial.

In certain respects, Neo-Confucian philosophers such as Zhu Xi and Razan affirmed that ki was the stuff of reality in order to counter the Buddhist claim that all things are insubstantial or empty.

Others were totally insubstantial.

Money is insubstantial now.

So far, so insubstantial.

This difference, however, is insubstantial.

The accusations are not insubstantial.