How To Use Unsubstantial In A Sentence
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There's nothing like emotional substance, even in an ostensibly unsubstantial thriller.
'Contraband': Almost Illegally Entertaining
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It would seem therefore with the new visa policy, Indonesia is likely to lose the majority of my annual spending; not a lot individually but I am sure there are many others in similar situations and the total loss will not be unsubstantial.
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With diligent and continuous practice, this formal processing of all our mental and physical experiences leads to progressively deeper insights into the essential characteristics of all things: impermanence, infelicity and unsubstantiality.
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Granting that panspermism may rest upon a purely fanciful and unsubstantial basis, it is but fair to concede that its great advocates have honestly attempted to explain by it all the vital phenomena occurring in nature, as M. Pasteur is conclusively attempting to do now.
Life: Its True Genesis
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The answer is that unsubstantiality does not depend on being manifest or unmanifest, but on the capacity to vanish when divested of existence.
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The following stipulation in the record shows the unsubstantiality of that statement just quoted from his opinion.
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You never report facts until unsubstantial claims contrary to the truth have been proven false, ( 'ie death panels, the public option is a government take over of health care), and then you want to do your so called fact check, it's more like, after the fact check.
CNN Truth Squad: Will health-care reform start right away?
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Most of the time, my debates of World War 2 will be met with allegations of unsubstantiality.
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So I have my porridge, while Mr.C. takes his more unsubstantial breadberry - so I call it - Anne calls it 'Master's pap'!
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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When I was in Bombay, I read the TOI and for me, what it gives is not news: I found the newspaper unsubstantial and slightly frivolous.
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Often, those makeovers are really just incredibly tacky - I mean, not in a gaudy way, but they're just kind of unfulfilling and unsubstantial.
Searching For A Perfect Life 'In That House'
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We know the versatility of the unsubstantial species to which you belong permits them to assume all manner of disguises; we have seen them apparelled in the caftan of a Persian, and the silken robe of a Chinese,
The Monastery
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Even before the protests, female political power and representation in Mubarak's Egypt was unsubstantial and token at best.
Ehsan Zaffar: The Revolution Isn't Over for the Women of Tahrir Square
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Public opinion has also been critical of the Annual Session and its unsubstantial agenda.
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It's a waste of calories in an unsubstantial meal.
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Yet, it would be easy to dismiss this collection of poetic blues/folk for something totally unsubstantial.
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The stone hard solidity of the quatrefoils, which were cared in relief, has given way to the spiritual unsubstantiality, for the trefoils are carved out, hollow forms like the hollow ‘spiritual’ squares of the second level.
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Front, Churchill in his latest push had expressed unshaken confidence in the allied conduct of the war, and Roosevelt according to a recent speech was supremely optimistic as to the final outcome of the conflict, all very vague and unsubstantial, but, heartening, never the less.
Work Camp 10760 L
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[4] Or rather, "a measurer of air" -- i.e. devoted not to good sound solid "geometry," but the unsubstantial science of "aerometry.
The Economist
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Shaw was often criticized for writing plays full of unsubstantial, if witty, banter.
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Occassionally the formula slips into pure atmosphere and unsubstantial blur, but on the bulk of the tracks this is a slow-swinging, quietly edgy experiment from a multi-talented fusioneer.
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Something like a London fog" it has been called, "only a dust fog," – an animated fog in which everything unsubstantial is fair prey.
Canadian Cities of Romance
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Funny that a video about information literacy includes such an unsubstantial claim.
What is Information Literacy? (Otis College) « Information Literacy Videos « Videos « Literacy News
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In comparison, I seemed small and unsubstantial.
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I quite agree, except I chose to hide behind my facade of dyed hair and unnatural lashes while pretending to not understand and therefore was spared the embarrassment of giving my unsubstantial opinions.
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It is also refers to unsubstantial talk or writing.
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He eats appreciatively after the manner of a _bon vivant; _ he uses his napkin gently and frequently; he glances blandly at the surroundings; watching him, you would suppose the viands were the choicest of the season, exquisitely prepared, while, in reality, they are poor and unsubstantial stuff, the refuse, perhaps, of better restaurants.
Fifth Avenue
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All is as unsubstantial, as vague and shadowy, as Coleridge's "image of a rock," or Bishop Berkeley's "ghost of a departed quantity," as he once defined a fluxion.
Life: Its True Genesis
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His flesh as unsubstantial as cobwebs, veins and arteries, tendons and muscles all clear beneath the ethereal shine of translucent skin.
Earl of Durkness
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I agree, it doesn't necessarily mean much if the money earned is unsubstantial - but it's still commercialisation by stealth.
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It is precisely this form of unsubstantial surface democracy of neoliberal politics that the author the original article attempts to point toward.
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She had half-expected his phantom body to be so unsubstantial that his hands would fail to make any real contact.
COLDHEART CANYON
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To say that Colbert's testimony was surprisingly unsubstantial, if funny, would be unfair, because it would imply we expected celebrity testimony before congress to be anything other than unsubstantial.
Stephen Colbert testimony: a mockery, but of whom?
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Absolutely and there was a not unsubstantial minority within the party that felt that this was nothing that the Greens should have accepted and should have agreed to, and they felt betrayed by their leadership.
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Their sound has become insipid and unsubstantial.
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Reality in this world seemed so strange, inconsistent and unsubstantial to him as he felt confusion welling inside him.
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This scenario was as unsubstantial as most of the claims made by campaign groups about the potential danger that anthrax could be easily used as a bio-weapon.
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We throw around concepts, but often our thoughts are vague and unsubstantial.
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Cute, no doubt, but fairly unsubstantial, considering this small feature is the only content that directly relates to the film itself on the DVD.
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But I still think it remains a fair question: Would the not-unsubstantial investment in an MSR mission designed to ferry a cache of tiny surface scratchings to earthside labs be all that more efficient/cost-effective than sending along a team of trained geologists to manage the collection with a robust on-site laboratory available for immediate assessment of specimen value?
Mars Program Gets no Special Treament - NASA Watch
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And should any one in any case be content that his oath shall go unkept on a merely unsubstantial controversy as to HOW it shall be kept?
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A film director, according to this thinking, selects a ‘challenging’ work out of a box from which he or she might just as well choose something frothy and unsubstantial.
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Not only were the figures’ words vague but they were also unsubstantial, confusing and pointless.
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She had half-expected his phantom body to be so unsubstantial that his hands would fail to make any real contact.
COLDHEART CANYON
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I think she's like her husband in that she can absorb a lot of information and then come through with very glib unsubstantial notions that don't work.
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Then the goddess, strange and ominous to see, fashions into the likeness of Aeneas a thin and pithless shade of hollow mist, decks it with Dardanian weapons, and gives it the mimicry of shield and divine helmet plume, gives unsubstantial [640-673] words and senseless utterance, and the mould and motion of his tread: like shapes rumoured to flit when death is past, or dreams that delude the slumbering senses.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Let us now consider the residue of each of these products; it consists of the same unsubstantial reality in each, a mere congelation of homogeneous human labor, of labour-power expended without regard to the mode of its expenditure.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy
