Sentence examples for the insubstantial from inspiring English sources
adjective
Lacking substance; not real or strong.
- The bridge was insubstantial and would not safely carry a car.
Quietly, they roll under the insubstantial archway of the rainbow.
Dazzle and evanescence is everywhere: the evening twists continually between the actual and the insubstantial.
(And the insubstantial signs of Aimée's mother are the flimsy stuff of ghost stories).
The wind that day caused the insubstantial thoroughfare to undulate wildly up and down and then disintegrate.
By the time FSG published her "Collected," in 2009, American fiction had more fully accommodated itself to the insubstantial.
Ms. Coppola's movies tend to take the insubstantial form of reveries: ethereal, languid, apt to evaporate on contact.
The freer the self, the more insubstantial nature will appear to it, and the greater the possibility of rationalizing it through external means.
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.
Chipper yet irritating, like a pet squirrel, he was always the most insubstantial figure in the saga, played by the most callow of the actors.
He hears himself say "actor", and for the first time understands the sheer, insubstantial pathos of his calling.
If this was really the rootless, insubstantial sequence that marked the start of an extraordinary political career perhaps it was better left unsaid.
