Sentence examples for insubstantial volume from inspiring English sources

The movements back and forth from the simple drawing to the explosion of imagination, all keyed to particular colors, garments and actions, make what at first seems an insubstantial volume a source of sustained delight.

By contrast with these three works, Stephen Roberts's Sinfonia for Brass, Percussion and Strings, ostensibly a personal view of American minimalism, was all the more disappointing: vulgar in its sheer volume, yet insubstantial in content.

Catherine Foster, the Brünnhilde, also showed power on the high end, slicing through the orchestra with a pure and brilliant tone, but she tended to sing flat, and made a pale, insubstantial sound at lower volumes.

Look in a baby name book for names that sound insubstantial.

Money is insubstantial now.

So far, so insubstantial.

Working with pixels rather than pencils, animators can now create volumes, textures and spaces with a three-dimensional solidity that has come to make the old methods suddenly look flat and insubstantial.

This insubstantial pageant has faded.

It is papery and insubstantial.

And the girls remain sort of insubstantial.

The story seems superficially insubstantial.