Sentence examples for to insubstantial from inspiring English sources

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to insubstantial

adjective

Lacking substance; not real or strong.

  • The bridge was insubstantial and would not safely carry a car.

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The research on sensory-based treatments is limited due to insubstantial treatment outcomes, weak experimental designs, or high risk of bias.

Hoyer says the pledge to America is basically to insubstantial to get upset about.

These men include the male directors who exploited her sexuality, a controlling first husband who kept her at home, and a studio executive, Louis B. Mayer, who confined her to insubstantial roles when she wanted more.

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When it opens at the beginning of the 2016-17 season, the new 60,000-capacity stadium will seem airy and impressive to some, insubstantial and windswept to others.

The leaders who went to Rio were so resigned to an insubstantial outcome that they allowed their sherpas to agree the basic communique before they had even arrived.

The mass slaughter at an LGBT nightclub in Orlando was performed by a man known for years to federal law enforcement but whose connections to terrorism were found to be insubstantial, highlighting a vexing problem for counter-terrorism investigators and privacy advocates.

It's both a boast and a shrug, and — true to her theme — a risky choice for an opener, daring the reader to disapprove, even raising the concern (at least among the more decorously inclined) that the essays to follow may amount to an insubstantial collage of you-go-girl actings-out for the sheer, and mere, hell of it.

In his tome, a definitive work on depression, Andrew Solomon quoted Robert Post of the NIMH, whose words still ring true: "People worry about side effects from staying on medication for a lifetime, but the side effects of doing that appear to be insubstantial, very insubstantial compared to the lethality of undertreated depression".

The effect size was ES =.04--an effect which, being lower than.20, proved to have insubstantial practical significance according to criteria propounded by [ 19] and [ 20].

But if one asks, why markets should be reformed so they reward the deserving, the notion of desert in play here looks under scrutiny to be too insubstantial to justify the demanded changes.

After a hearing, Judge Matsch independently ruled the evidence concerning a larger conspiracy to be too insubstantial to be admissible.

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