Sentence examples for insubstantial to from inspiring English sources

Infuriatingly insubstantial to start with, this is a grower.

Meanwhile, a backlash contingent argued that Pym's work was too insubstantial to merit serious attention.

Blood Relative is frothy fun, though too insubstantial to merit the epithet Hitchcockian despite its gestures in that direction.

Grief made her insubstantial to herself; she felt as if she were flitting lightly from room to room like a moth.

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.

He displays flashes of irritation at suggestions that he might be too young or insubstantial to be the leader of the nation.

Clearly I feared an ominous diagnosis but, at the same time, I was reluctant to report such "insubstantial" complaints to my doctor.

It added, "No copyist need now fear the doctrine of equivalents and only a fool would fail to make an insubstantial change to avoid the literal terms of a patent claim".

I had been careless enough to say that his gift to the Clinton Foundation was insubstantial compared to the kindness of his Canadian partner or certain Arab businessmen.

It's the unrelenting power of the two-chord drones, though, that is the real draw here, bass and drums throbbing hard enough to add a real heartbeat to songs that might otherwise seem insubstantial enough to melt away.

As the two-component models explained almost all the total R, adding more components yields little difference to results, i.e. insubstantial changes to the estimated regression coefficients.