Sentence examples for rather insubstantial from inspiring English sources

"I think it is slightly cynical in its timing; it is rather insubstantial in its content and it is not part of an overall approach," Cameron said on GMTV.

"I was standing there behind a rather insubstantial wattle screen," Jowell remembers, "and I thought, 'I am 60 years old.' And I looked up at the sky, and I threw a bucket of cold water over myself, and then I thought: 'This is what 60 is.

"This Budget looks like being the rather insubstantial filling between two pretty chunky slices of bread".

It's only 0.39″ thick, which is impressive, but when your competitors are only tenths of an inch thicker, the benefits are rather insubstantial (except for bragging rights).

Hence its arrival suggests itself as a potentially useful calibration point for the mtDNA molecular clock, although the archaeological evidence for the colonisation time is rather insubstantial [ 21].

Unlike pure HAp, typified by the initial burst release of the adsorbed drug and the rather insubstantial release in the subsequent, sustained release phase, PCL has been used to ensure extended release profiles both alone and in composites.

In person, those same tics make him seem, if not overwhelming, at least real rather than insubstantial.

At times, it plays like a series of TV skits, some of them funny and incisive, some rather larkish and insubstantial.

Smith had acted as F.D.R.'s patron but had always had a hard time taking him seriously; Roosevelt appeared to Smith, as he did to many in Albany, to be clever and charming but also rather ditsy and insubstantial.

It's the same safe-from-harm ideology that the internet also shores up – it's best to just accept this insubstantial, rather corrupted world where no one really believes in anything any longer except themselves and their friends".

Let's also hope we have learned to dig deeper into the facts behind economic change, rather than revert to catchy but insubstantial slogans.