Sentence examples for seem insubstantial from inspiring English sources

The milky mid-December light streaming into the apartment made them seem insubstantial.

When set beside this alarming vitality, his fierce instinct for survival, the other characters seem insubstantial.

Even though they seem insubstantial they carry a considerable weight of water – around 500 tonnes in a small cumulus cloud.

Or maybe it is Mr. King's story itself, not one of his best, that made reading onscreen seem insubstantial.

Those arguments seem insubstantial now that some top W.H.O. officials and other health authorities have called for opening the exclusive-access system.

"People worry about side effects from staying on medication for a lifetime, but these effects seem insubstantial compared with the lethality of undertreated depression.

My body had become strange to me; it seemed insubstantial.

For all the percolating rhythms and wailing riffs, the music seemed insubstantial.

The public became quite fond of Bacchus and other new "superkrewes," while the old-line krewes seemed insubstantial by comparison.

But raised above a swamp, with trains entering and departing through openings at its base, the building seems insubstantial.

But the autonomy granted seems insubstantial, especially since the central government split the region into two, creating a new province of West Papua in 2003.