Alas, though, there is a nagging insubstantiality to the most recent stories.
Not the least haziness or insubstantiality.
Though these works were sold and not destroyed, Wright considered them to be of a piece with the rest of his oeuvre, noting the inherent flimsiness and insubstantiality of paper as a medium.
In its former aspect, it asserts the fact that an individual is constituted out of five aggregates (khandas; skandhas); in its latter aspect it means the utter insubstantiality of all elements.
What was intriguing and unsettling about this unusual book were its apparent contradictions: the sensuality of its language and the insubstantiality of its temporal and spatial settings, its rhapsodic structure and style, and the coherence and unity of the theme of death that inspired it.
He says: "These feelings of insubstantiality and inauthenticity that plagued me as an adolescent have been transformed from existential fears into something to be revelled in: a great, bounding game of role playing, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, sometimes grave, but never earnest, always with a knowing sense of the absurdity and the fiction inherent in the idea of identity.
He and D'Ardelo may end trapped in a mutually spun web of fictions and lies, but Ramon accepts this insubstantiality as inherent to the human comedy.
It is the truth not, however, an eternal, everlasting substance like the atman of the Upanishads but the truth of utter selflessness and the insubstantiality of things, of the emptiness of the ego, and of the impermanence of all things.
For the record, this was the question that inspired Cruz's rant about insubstantiality: "Congressional Republicans, Democrats, and the White House are about to strike a compromise that would raise the debt limit, prevent a government shutdown and calm financial markets that fear of — another Washington-created crisis is on the way.
In Colson Whitehead's "Apex Hides the Hurt" (2006), a nameless "nomenclature consultant" sees his insubstantiality reflected in the labels he devises for products: "What he had given all those things had been the right name, but never the true name".
