Sentence examples for insubstantial thing from inspiring English sources

The author maneuvering for love is commonplace and ordinary, and the work of fiction that seductively asserts the brilliance or importance or easy affability of its creator is an insubstantial thing.

Inside the four walls of the Achike household there is a war being fought everyday between the father, the children and the mother – even the most insubstantial thing of scoring second best in school can switch the mood from 0-100, and this is what causes Kambili to be pushed further and further under her father's regime.

That's not an insubstantial thing.

In a bit of natural alchemy called photosynthesis, for example, trees turn one of the seemingly most insubstantial things of all — sunlight — into food for insects, wildlife and people, and use it to create shade, beauty and wood for fuel, furniture and homes.

To get back to my original point, it's only natural for people to treat it like the insubstantial, fictional thing it has become.

It had been a curiously insubstantial affair, thought Alfred.

The transitory, insubstantial way of things (suchness or emptiness) cannot be adequately captured by the fixed meanings of conventional language.

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.

The whole thing feels strangely insubstantial — like sitting in front of a never-ending edition of QI".

In this, Milton builds on a philosophy called Vitalism, which holds that all animate things — including plants and insubstantial beings, like angels — are made from "thinking matter".

IV Your breath precedes you on a winter's day, An insubstantial cloud, as if to say, All solid things are blown to vapor soon.