Sentence examples for insubstantial things from inspiring English sources

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.

It tunnelled underneath my old one, which looked the same to the untrained eye, but was revealed, now, to be the insubstantial thing I'd always guessed.

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.

It had been a curiously insubstantial affair, thought Alfred.

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

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".

The gold wrapping is not even made of foil, there's a distinctly soft and insubstantial centre and the whole thing is presided over by an ageing ambassadorial figure who some suggest is spoiling everything.