| 单词 | insubstantial |
| 例句 | The chairs, the lights hanging above her head, even the stripes on the walls seem insubstantial. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Even as a young man, Newton was impatient with insubstantial questions, such as whether light was “a substance or an accident,” or how gravitation could act over an intervening vacuum. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In Weep it was she who was the ghost, and an unbound one, invisible, incorporeal, insubstantial as a murmur. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z She has no way to be sure, no barometer on which to measure such insubstantial things. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Far too insubstantial for a piece of gold. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Charles, beside me, stood out sharp and almost hyper-realistic with his ruddy cheeks and labored breaths but further down, Henry had become a wraith, his large form light and strangely insubstantial in the mist. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Some believe that, like blood or spinal fluid, our peculiarness has physical substance. Others think it’s inside us but insubstantial. A second soul.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Then the shapes of things begin to emerge, grayish and glimmering and insubstantial, as if they’re condensing from the air. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She was too insubstantial, too shadowy for love. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He could no more hug Silas than he could hold a moonbeam, not because his guardian was insubstantial, but because it would be wrong. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Each day, she seemed to drift further away, to become more insubstantial; it was as if she had the same peculiar wasting illness that had consumed Minnie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z To my oxygen-depleted mind, the clouds drifting up the grand valley of ice known as the Western Cwm looked innocuous, wispy, insubstantial. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z These dangerous visions, at first insubstantial as a memory, became a lifelong obsession. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The mist crept over them and they grew cloudy and insubstantial. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They talk about her as though she is not even in the room, as if she is as insubstantial as their beloved spirits. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z What was surprising, however, was how superficial, insubstantial, and uninterested the court's two-and-a-half-page order read. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “He has the sweetest of smiles,” and with one insubstantial hand she stroked the child’s sparse blond hair. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “Poor little soul,” said Mistress Owens, taking the boy from her, and cradling him in her capable, if insubstantial arms. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z When we finished rehearsal that night, I could almost imagine myself leaping out into the airy elements and dropping the insubstantial pageant of life behind me. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z She seemed almost insubstantial, and yet she emitted a force that made you want to crawl toward her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Megan is not a mystery to be solved, she is not a figure who wanders into the tracking shot at the beginning of a film, beautiful, ethereal, insubstantial. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “You and everything here appear equally insubstantial from my perspective. Perhaps we will be able to discuss it at greater length another time. Come with me.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I felt then, in that moment, the insubstantial weight of my sixteen years in a way I’d never felt before. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Had it not been for their frantic clashing, I might have imagined they were not solid metal at all, but something thin and insubstantial, like the elder sticks we fought with as boys. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z But honesty seems so small and quiet and insubstantial with all those people out there. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z As I walk along I feel as weightless and insubstantial as a slip of paper, lifted by the wind and gliding down the road. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The wagons gathering around it seemed rather insubstantial compared to the stone’s solid presence. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Her life before was as insubstantial as smoke. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Invisible, incorporeal, insubstantial as a murmur, Sarai slipped into their dreams, and what she discovered there, in the hours that followed, proved that the strangers were far from ridiculous. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z For a moment it seemed to Shadow as if the man was insubstantial; as if the plane had suddenly become more real, while his neighbor had become less so. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The interior of the cloud felt spongy and chilly, real and insubstantial at once. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z I felt as insubstantial as the ghost of a cricket. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z But the spectral seemed suddenly insubstantial, and no sooner did this thought occur than she melted away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Otto let the disappearing camera fall, now so light and insubstantial, it arced back and forth slowly, like an autumn leaf released from a tree branch, before it touched the stage lightly. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z All of us, except Kathy, received short trousers, an insubstantial jersey, and a canvas jacket. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A proton is an infinitesimal part of an atom, which is itself of course an insubstantial thing. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But looking at Dimple’s open face, hearing her earnest questions, his usual inhibitions turned to puffs of cloud, insubstantial, floating away as he tried to grasp them. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The insubstantial frost feathers ensured that those last twenty feet remained hard, scary, onerous. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The other people in the corridor—three children, two adults—were somehow too insubstantial to touch the door. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z And so he did, the insubstantial presence in the fog once again becoming the solid figure of Hamlet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z As the rain patters gently against the windows, they converse politely about insubstantial things. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “That is not going to happen again,” Hector responds, each word sharp and heavy despite his insubstantial form. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z There was something fluid, insubstantial, in the very heaviness of this city built of monoliths, this monolithic state that called the part and the whole by the same name. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z It was unreal—insubstantial as spiderweb-strands blowing lightly across a window that looks out on trees. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z His body felt insubstantial, like he was made of helium and cotton candy. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z For two, perhaps three seconds, a gigantic, blinding white shard of glass from a broken cosmic window danced in the sky insubstantial yet overwhelmingly powerful. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He was oddly colorless, with transparent eyelashes, wispy hair, and an insubstantial air, as though a single gust of wind might blow him away. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z But the homunculus never materialised – it was an apparition, more insubstantial than the ectoplasm that appeared by sleight of hand in spiritualist seances. Intimations of immortality 2011-01-08T00:05:59Z The film’s impressively plotted psychological feats are nonetheless rendered insubstantial, inconsequential, even trivial by their utter dissociation from the characters’ temperament, motives, and inner life—from character as such. The Vacuum-Sealed Efficiency of “Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation” 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Cannes is wind-struck today, the yachts are roiling and Bejo, wearing a pretty but insubstantial dress, has a blanket around her shoulders. Bérénice Bejo: 'The Artist was a gift. But I thought I was really good' 2013-05-25T18:00:02Z The idea of home, you see, is as tantalizingly insubstantial to Mr. Oliver as that of a father. Review: ‘Attorney Street,’ a Gothic Elegy for a Fleeing Here and Now 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z Shiver is as if someone has scrubbed away at Marling until only the most insubstantial wisp remains, and it's so pathologically inoffensive that I am actually offended. Tomorrow's World; Lucy Rose; Tyler, The Creator: this week's new tracks 2013-04-01T05:00:00Z As all three plays in “Happy Hour” assert, it is of course human beings who manufacture the hostility in the universe, but Mr. Coen’s writing is too insubstantial to elaborate his theme compellingly. | 'Happy Hour': ?Happy Hour,? One-Act Plays by Ethan Coen - Review 2011-12-06T03:01:00Z A slim subplot, concerning a celebrated military officer, Maboud Ebrahimzadeh’s Alcibiades, who is himself banished from decadent Athens, feels insubstantial and contributes to the sense of a play in a raw state. Review | Shakespeare’s ‘Timon of Athens’ takes a rare Washington bow 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z I can’t remember ever hearing this ensemble sound so light, almost insubstantial — and I mean that as a compliment. Review: ‘Così’ at the Met, as Mild as a Coney Island Morning 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z Hyperactive yet strangely restrained, it's deft but rather insubstantial. BBC Singers/London Sinfonietta/Atherton ? review 2011-08-22T14:57:59Z She fit the profile of this docile, earnest opera, which strove so mightily and so dully to fit some kind of perceived mold but sadly proved as insubstantial as its heroine. Review | ‘Marnie’ is all too insubstantial at Met Opera premiere 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z The documentary "Live From New York!" is an entertaining but insubstantial chronicle of one of America's most enduring and influential television shows, NBC's "Saturday Night Live." 'Live From New York!': It's a too-short snapshot of 'SNL' 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z The words and intellectual constructs to which Vivian has devoted her life grow increasingly insubstantial before the hard physical facts of her disease. Theater Review: Cynthia Nixon in ?Wit,? at Manhattan Theater Club 2012-01-27T03:01:00Z Because of that, on his father's death the title and Scottish estates went to Bowes' uncle while he had to make do with a not insubstantial inheritance in Durham. Edwin Landseer's Otter Speared: rare display for 'gruesome' painting 2010-05-09T19:24:00Z These tears — as well as the not insubstantial expense of the endeavor — were collateral damage toward a larger, longer-term goal. Making Language Immersion Fun for the Kids 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z There are whispers that Spielberg – who holds the reins as jury president – may well plump for something sweeter and slighter, such as Hirokazu Kore-eda's pleasant yet insubstantial Like Father, Like Son. Cannes film festival diary: day nine 2013-05-23T14:52:40Z Pretty but insubstantial, with an odd swerve to melodrama at the end. — Moira Macdonald 1:30 p.m. — "Leaves of Grass": Actor Edward Norton is scheduled to attend the screening. June 5 at SIFF: 'Hipsters,' 'Blessed' and 'Angel at Sea' are highlights 2010-06-04T21:33:00Z A few stories are insubstantial; one is discordantly political. Shrewd Short Stories That Merge the Hopeless and the Hopeful 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z But what is it, this insubstantial, intangible inner… what, exactly? The conundrum of mind and matter: what is consciousness? 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z Lacroix’s surroundings at times appear solid to him; at others, especially when he has been drinking or taking laudanum, they’re ghostly and insubstantial. While You’re Waiting for the Next Hilary Mantel, Try Andrew Miller 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z She seemed insubstantial: a disembodied face, a gnarled hand on her chin, the rest of her hidden by the trees. Extract: Trespass by Rose Tremain 2010-08-06T08:55:00Z Mr. Millepied’s ballets are always chic even when they are insubstantial. Dance Review: New York City Ballet?s Architecture of Dance 2010-04-30T23:01:00Z The more informationally transparent she gets, the more insubstantial she becomes as a person. Dave Eggers’ Scathing Attack on Social Media 2013-10-02T09:45:19Z Though insubstantial — it’s a dandelion of a show — the piece speaks to this liminal moment that seems as though it might soon disappear as theaters reopen. Review: In ‘Return the Moon,’ Theater Between Phases 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z The film’s referential pleasures feel insubstantial, diminished by the direct comparison to more meaningful works of the period. ‘18½’ Review: Watergate, Through a Fog 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z But those two pieces, each insubstantial while laden with surface attitudinizing, occurred before the intermission. Dance Review: BalletX’s ‘Last Glass,’ at the Joyce, Has Music by Beirut 2013-08-08T22:45:44Z For Prospero’s “insubstantial pageant,” aerial shots of tropical islands are projected onto giant white balloons, tethered to homely water bottles; the inmates sigh at such an evanescent vision of freedom. Two Ways to Bring Shakespeare Into the Twenty-First Century 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z “Moment Marigold” often resembles a dream, and is sometimes as insubstantial. Jodi Melnick Unveils ‘Moment Marigold’ at BAM 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Ultimately, though, you begin to feel the project is insubstantial as well as deliberately inconclusive. Narrative – review 2013-04-11T13:10:00Z In one painting of a pub called the Black Prince, you can glimpse a solitary figure reflected in the glass of a pub window – his late father, as spectral and insubstantial as a ghost. George Shaw 2011-02-13T00:05:02Z Last year, actor-turned-rapper Drake dropped his eagerly anticipated debut album, Thank Me Later, a lackluster affair of tired hip-hop clichés, half-wrought emotional declarations, and bits and pieces of innovation too insubstantial to survive. Drake's Take Care Was Worth The Wait 2011-11-15T14:00:12Z Even the serious, penetrating mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey couldn’t save the closing “Rejoicing” set from feeling insubstantial. Music Review: Britten in Juilliard’s Spotlight at Alice Tully Hall 2013-12-04T22:33:18Z As you watch that fisherman solo in silence, it feels insubstantial. Review: ‘Hagoromo’ Offers More Than Dance at BAM Harvey Theater 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z Impish if insubstantial, the show’s critique of class rage and the toxic desire for fame doesn’t cut deeply. Theater Listings for Oct. 2-8 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Briefly, the play is a strange and not exactly persuasive compound of facile thriller and earnest, insubstantial meditation on freedom and exile. ‘Shesh Yak’ Stars Laith Nakli and Zarif Kabier 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z 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. “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Reviewed 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z It is pitched somewhere between the two, evocative yet slightly insubstantial. Philharmonia/Salonen ? review 2011-02-11T18:04:52Z As such, it can feel irritatingly artificial and insubstantial — beneath the philosophical and literary veneer, there’s not a whole lot going on. An International Buffet, From Elena Ferrante to ‘Slow Horses’ 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z The real issue with Hulu’s original series, as opposed to those on Netflix, is that they look insubstantial next to the regular TV fare, which is what you’re really paying for. Watch List: ‘The Awesomes’ and ‘Quick Draw’ Are New on Hulu 2013-07-31T21:14:04Z Yes, we watched and for the most part, we enjoyed for purely insubstantial reasons. A new hope for "Star Wars" in "The Mandalorian" season finale 2019-12-27T05:00:00Z Still, Above & Beyond’s audience, a not insubstantial one, seems unfailingly moved by its work. Review: A Break from Electronic in ‘Above & Beyond Acoustic: Giving Up the Day Job’ 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z However physically insubstantial a drawing is, it is a complex, even profound activity. White Cube drawing show: The thin grey line 2010-07-20T20:31:00Z These findings changed the way I see joy, from light and insubstantial, to light and very substantial. Ode to joy: how to find happiness in balloons and rainbows 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z The music that Mr. Felder plays, quite nicely on a gleaming grand piano, is the best part of this show, which at an intermissionless 105 minutes is both overlong and insubstantial. Review: Nice Music, but in ‘Maestro’ He Doesn’t Look a Thing Like Lenny 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Some of the extended solo passages are formulaic and, for all the dazzle, insubstantial. Music Review: Proud Parents With Cameras, Clicking Away 2010-12-26T21:39:04Z Such a glib assessment without a single citation may be adequate for television, but it leaves a book feeling airy and insubstantial. “The Art of the English Murder” is a great read, but light on historical sources It's a flimsy construct, and the first season of the Darren Star show faltered, as insubstantial as some of the outfits Emily wears, its dialogue as awkward as her bucket hats. "Emily in Paris" is aging well 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z Its lens of love focuses on the interplay of meatspace and insubstantial connections. E. Jane Signals a Vibe Shift in What ‘Performance’ Means 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z The consumer, meanwhile, is presented with the opportunity to gander at the handsome, stylish Idris Elba in a gorgeous, insubstantial vanity project. What Netflix wants you to want: Breezy "Turn Up Charlie" is in, "One Day at a Time" is out 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z The Texan singer received the fewest votes after Simon Cowell called his rendition of Eric Hutchinson's OK, It's Alright With Me insubstantial. American Idol whittled down to the final two 2010-05-20T11:32:00Z A 5% risk of harm, she insisted, “is not an insubstantial number”. The great vape debate: are e-cigarettes saving smokers or creating new addicts? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z This time Mr. Ford fared less memorably, with a liquid-gold sheath dress featuring cutouts for Naomi Watts, a presenter, that seemed too insubstantial for the chunky necklace collar holding it up. Fashion Review: Tom Ford and Zac Posen Among Designers at Golden Globes 2014-01-13T04:21:53Z “As I get older, I find I’m less in pursuit of very light, insubstantial voices,” he continued. Early-Music Ensembles: Praised as Pure, but Seeking More 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z In late 1956, she was feeling not only burdened but also fragile — so light and insubstantial that she could blow away. How Diane Arbus Became ‘Arbus’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z It was more spectral — in the sense of ghostly but also of insubstantial. Review: At New York City Ballet, a Too Quiet Debut 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z It's lissom and light – insubstantial, but in a good way. New band of the day – Black Light Dinner Party (No 1,469) 2013-03-12T16:11:55Z It's a fascinating performance, but too insubstantial to merit the final prize. The Place Prize: the Finals ? review 2011-04-07T16:01:23Z Strauss’s orchestral works are tricky, requiring a delicate balance of lushness and lightness, and under Leon Botstein’s baton, they felt simultaneously clotted and insubstantial. American Symphony Orchestra Presents ‘Marriage Actually’ 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Frank would later reject Cartier-Bresson’s work, saying it represented all that was glib and insubstantial about photojournalism. Robert Frank Dies; Pivotal Documentary Photographer Was 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The story is sweet but insubstantial, bordering on surreal but leaving potentially twisting paths unfollowed. Pilobolus Performs at the Joyce Theater 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Never rushed, his pacing keeps the energy up; never insubstantial in texture, the playing maintains a fizzy lightness. Review: The Stepchild of Cinderella Operas Finally Makes It to the Met 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z At the same time, because they’re just roughly sketched in black, they look insubstantial, even accidental, like shadows or spreading stains. Art Review: 1 Artist, 2 Shows, 2 Mediums, 1 Vision 2010-12-18T00:15:16Z Rachmaninov's The Rock, an early, rather insubstantial tone poem based on Lermontov, was admirably decorous, though it left you wondering why it was chosen. Classical Philharmonia/Maazel/Trifonov – review 2012-12-14T17:30:01Z If we do, we risk seeming shallow or insubstantial. Ode to joy: how to find happiness in balloons and rainbows 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z One imagines that, with time, the intricate web linking the movies will get more frayed and insubstantial, and the new films will seem increasingly inessential. The Narrative Experiment That Is the Marvel Cinematic Universe 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z “Ramen Shop” is not all as sweet or insubstantial as that summary suggests. ‘Ramen Shop’ Review: A Search for Family and Good Soup 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z But on Thursday, the contrast was so subdued that the work felt insubstantial. Ben Munisteri Is Back, Out of a Time Warp 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z I don’t usually mean this as a compliment, but it’s so insubstantial, it’s like eating nothing at all. Packaged, Artificial and Wonderful: The Top Frozen Treats 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Eliot shows, however, that Mr. Brooke’s commitment to reform is, at best, insubstantial. How George Eliot’s “Middlemarch” Resonates in the England of 2019 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Du Zhuang, frail and as insubstantial as plasterboard, was pushing his suitcase with one hand, and holding his phone with the other. China’s little emperors – the children without siblings 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z Allowances should perhaps be made for this limited but not insubstantial rehearsal time and for Mr. Nelsons’s unfamiliarity with the orchestra, but for the most part, he did not have it sounding its best. Music Review: A Fresh Face Confronts a Seasoned Mahler 2011-03-18T22:24:01Z His “Ink Plum” depicts a single plum tree, a symbol of ethical purity, as little more than a graceful but insubstantial twig. Art Review: ?The Art of Dissent in 17th-Century China? at the Met Museum - Review 2011-09-08T22:36:02Z But somehow, the evening, topped off with the encore of Brahms’s 10th Hungarian Dance in F, left me feeling I’d eaten a marvelous dessert, delicious but ultimately insubstantial. Review | Michael Tilson Thomas shook up the San Francisco Symphony. So why such standard pieces for their victory lap? 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z It's as fine as mist, as fragile and apparently insubstantial as thought. Artist of the week 194: Jessica Rankin 2012-06-15T15:38:31Z Andy Warhol refined the image of Marilyn Monroe till it was almost insubstantial, a hieroglyph in place of a likeness, with neither age nor identity nor expression. Now please pay attention everybody. I'm about to tell you what art is 2011-03-06T22:30:00Z Watercolour, being transparent but visible, is made for the insubstantial: for painting water, reflection, vapour, sky, the hazy, diaphanous and remote. Awash with colour 2011-02-20T00:04:07Z The violence is presented with a deliberate languor that makes it feel insubstantial. ‘Superior’ Review: Double Fantasy 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z He is subject to disregard and petty humiliation, not because he is insubstantial but because he is black. Teju Cole's top 10 novels of solitude 2011-08-24T11:45:07Z More than that, political and even artistic concerns could seem abstract and insubstantial compared with the warmth and gravity of human relationships. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Here, green blocks of foam crumble as the work progresses, illustrating Rosenblit’s theme of the insubstantial self. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Maybe more so in cause-driven work, but I suspect this would be the case most places, even when the bulk of office experiences seem rote and insubstantial. Perspective | For 20 years, happy hour has seen us through work — and life 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z All that matters is that it's insubstantial, and easily repeated. Season of the witch: How the word, and the concept, made a big 2018 comeback 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z And if things start to look a little bit tacky and insubstantial when you get close up, well, that's just showbusiness for you. Cannes 2013: Festival taps into the power of nostalgia to fight back against global competition 2013-05-18T19:04:38Z It's as thin and insubstantial as a pink wafer but neatly structured, with a participatory game of pass-the-parcel allowing Morrissey stories to emerge as the parcel's layers are ripped away. Unhappy Birthday – review 2012-06-06T17:28:31Z There are pictures that combine both methods and more, the transitional passages between them always involving a pure whiteness that is sometimes solid and sometimes insubstantial as light. Richard Hamilton: The Late Work; Mel Bochner: If the Colour Changes – review 2012-10-13T23:06:10Z Accompanying one another with weak body percussion, they alternated between solos and insubstantial duets or ensemble bits. ‘Dancing Through the Bronx’ Makes a Stop at Wave Hill 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z The image that Gelb is trying to project—stylish, theatrically savvy, up-to-date without being avant-garde—has proved insubstantial. The Met's Klinghoffer Problem 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z But this tedious, unfunny, screamingly unoriginal romantic adventure film is so flimsy and so insubstantial that it’s practically vaporous. ‘Ghosted’ Review: A C.I.A. Meet Cute 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Perhaps more of a drawback, although one that often recedes as Krist’s narrative gains momentum, is what the title metaphor implies — an insubstantial and fleeting fiction. Los Angeles as the City of Dreams, and Nightmares 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Making your voice guttural is the opposite of making it breathy, and breathy women’s voices are also viewed as wrong — childlike and insubstantial. Perspective | Elizabeth Holmes’s weird, possibly fake baritone is actually her least baffling quality 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z With Berninger occasionally exploring new vocal approaches and Devendorf moved back in the mix, that groove is often forced to the side by airy atmospherics and sonic effects that are indeed beautiful, but often insubstantial. Review: The National returns with somber 6th album 2013-05-20T13:58:11Z “While marquee names wrestle with characters as insubstantial as holograms, Lloyd gives us a reason to keep watching.” What’s on TV Friday: An Ilana Glazer Stand-Up Special and ‘Little Women’ 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z He got her the job, stopped by the set to see her glowing with happiness, then strolled away from the soundstage, leaving the color and light behind him, looking gaudy and insubstantial. Mad Men Monday: The season ends 2012-06-11T16:39:15Z The Beckett allusions are insubstantial, but in truth none of this literary game-playing is illuminating, and mostly feels like a lazy attempt to pad the play with audience-flattering in-jokes. | 'Leaving': A New Play by Vaclav Havel Has Its American Premiere 2010-06-08T22:24:00Z The film’s start date, pushed back several times, has taken on a mirage quality, insubstantial but tantalisingly still on the horizon. My streaming gem: why you should watch Nobody's Watching 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z Madeleines from Rotisserie Georgette were as light and deliciously insubstantial as a Rupert Murdoch tweet. Tables for Two: The Finest New York Restaurants in 2014 2014-12-28T05:00:00Z Lighter than a meringue and as insubstantial, the French boulevard comedy “The Women on the 6th Floor” was designed for the gentle laughter it easily earns. | 'The Women on the 6th Floor': ?The Women on the 6th Floor,? French Comedy - Review 2011-10-06T22:24:37Z From then on the whole thing becomes terribly insubstantial. TV review: Candy Cabs and Campus 2011-04-05T22:15:01Z And those upstart expenses are insubstantial compared to the continuing costs associated with running a business. Where Are All the Lesbian Bars? Coming to a Place Near You. 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z The milky mid-December light streaming into the apartment made them seem insubstantial. New York Fashion Week: Another Season, Another Show 2011-02-10T00:06:03Z What is not key are Jenny and the other characters in the movie, who are served up as an insubstantial side dish. Sundance film festival 2013: Touchy Feely – first look review 2013-01-22T12:04:53Z The movie reduces its fear factor to simple suspense that’s not insignificant but is pretty insubstantial. “Life” Is Full of Horrors 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z Our narrator realizes he’s a ghost — so insubstantial that blades of grass stab his feet. Visions of Heaven (and how to get there) in C.S. Lewis’s ‘Great Divorce’ 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z This isn’t to say that “So Much for That Winter,” is insubstantial. Breaking up is hard, even for the avant-garde: Dorthe Nors' 'So Much for That Winter' 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z In other hands, this gigglesome parade of outrageous anecdotes might feel insubstantial. Greg Davies – review 2012-11-05T19:08:06Z Jordan continues to think, with not insubstantial reasons, he can strongarm the holdouts into backing him. Jim Jordan: MAGA's version of Jesus 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z VFX workers, who create many of the astounding visual effects in Disney’s films, have long bemoaned the intense working conditions and insubstantial pay, but have been afraid to speak out. Disney visual effects workers move to unionize 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z When muons decay, they produce neutrinos—insubstantial particles that barely interact with matter. Particle Physicists Dream of a Muon Collider 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z The trend has also raised eyebrows for what some argue is an endorsement of low-calorie snacks in small, sometimes insubstantial portions. ‘Girl dinner’ broke the internet. Here’s what nutritionists think about it. 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, Durham’s handiwork might not be as benign as it is insubstantial. Column: Why Special Counsel John Durham's report takes so long to say so little 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z The discoveries Bravo photographs are physical but sometimes so insubstantial that they feel illusory. Review | In the galleries: She draws inspiration from neighborhood walks 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z There are no real demons here, only those insubstantial ones from bygone days — unforgiven betrayals, old jealousies, unforgotten guilt — that bedevil the present. Review | ‘The Five Devils’: It’s only the demons of the past, but that’s enough 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z The premise of “My Happy Ending” is somewhat slight, but there’s nothing insubstantial about a woman coming to a profound realization about her life thanks to a surprising encounter with unexpected new allies. Review: Andie MacDowell brings signature charm to the modest but insightful 'My Happy Ending' 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z In recent years, Poland's off-budget spending has gone from insubstantial amounts to several percentage points' worth of GDP, based on spending tracked by economists and rating agencies. Off-budget spending stirs doubts about Poland's finances 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z But Chazelle’s writing of these characters feels much too hesitant and insubstantial, and he gives Adepo and Li far too little to chew on. Review: ‘Babylon’ douses you with sex, drugs, vomit and elephant diarrhea. You … might like it? 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z The magic tricks in Round House Theatre’s “The Tempest” are not, to steal Prospero’s phrase, an insubstantial pageant. At Round House Theatre, a literally magical ‘Tempest’ 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z He feared the lack of consensus on key issues would lead to a long list of ideas being “whittled down” to a few insubstantial topics on which nations can easily agree. Climate talks hit ‘breakdown’ over finance, fossil fuels as time dwindles 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z That process resulted in an array of “mostly insubstantial” errors that “did not alter the meaning of Starr’s report.” Kenneth Starr, who led Whitewater probes into Clinton, dies at 76 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z But Marsha Norman’s exposition-laden book, seeking to hopscotch among so many of the narrative’s events and episodes, ends up feeling insubstantial: It skips along with the gloss of an opera libretto. Review | ‘Color Purple’ is lifted by powerful voices at Signature Theatre 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z But a tribunal found the link was "too insubstantial". House of Zana boutique owner wins trademark row with Zara 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z “Congressman Brooks’s allegations were insubstantial,” Mr. Frohsin said in an interview. They Insisted the 2020 Election Was Tainted. Their 2022 Primary Wins? Not So Much. 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z This frees them to be, playfully and sublimely, insubstantial. Review | In the galleries: Delicate dominates at annual sculpture show 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Toll also said that although his company had gotten hundreds of requests from insurance companies for billing records in the matter, “only two resulted in requests for reimbursement — and then only for relatively insubstantial sums.” This company was accused of exploiting the coronavirus testing boom to reap millions 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z They said the council budget plans were insubstantial and Pendle Leisure Trust could now pay the price for government's cuts and the local Conservatives lack of ideas. Pendle Council 'faces stark position' with £8m funding gap 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z However, tribunal registrar Matthew Williams ruled he was satisfied any "mental link" made by customers between House of Zana and Zara would be "too insubstantial and fleeting" to result in an "exploitation" of Zara's reputation. House of Zana boutique owner wins trademark row with Zara 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z Scientists give a 1 in 9 chance of a 9.0 megaquake sometime in the next 50 years and a 1 in 3 possibility for a not insubstantial 7.0 quake in the same time period. In deep water 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Enormous sums of money are tossed about in that quest as if they were almost insubstantial. Readers Respond to the September 2021 Issue 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z As it turns out, she is in the special — albeit for about a minute in a couple of exceedingly brief and insubstantial clips gleaned from archival footage. Takeaways from HBO Max’s Harry Potter reunion: tears, nostalgia and a curious lack of J.K. Rowling 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z "It took a hit — a bigger hit than we have seen before — but it didn't take it down to levels that are insubstantial." Small lab study shows omicron partially evades vaccine-based immunity 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z That means the phone should survive being used in the rain, but not full submersion, and it’s not an insubstantial achievement given the back of this modular phone can literally be unclipped without any tools. Fairphone 4 review: the price of sustainability 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z McFarlane dismissed those suggestions, saying the idea it could be Jordan was “so insubstantial as to be without consequence.” Dubai's Sheikh Mohammed ordered phones of ex-wife and lawyers to be hacked, UK court says 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z Briefing is not the same as in a regularly docketed case, but it is not insubstantial, he said. Alito defends letting Texas abortion law take effect, says Supreme Court critics want to intimidate justices 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Given today’s ubiquity of such always insubstantial but sometimes commanding pictures skittering across countless screens — phone, TV, desktop monitor, laptop, tablet — this is no insignificant feat. Review: Forget about 'immersive' Van Gogh. Pipilotti Rist's MOCA show is the real thing 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z The Taliban had held showy but, evidently, insubstantial talks with them after taking power. Opinion | The Taliban shows what it means by ‘inclusive.’ The time for American wishful thinking is over. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Workers paid rent for the insubstantial company houses, school classes were evidently in English only, and families were expected to spend their company paychecks at company stores. The bricks, bombs and socialist utopias of Southern California’s labor history 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z But as Blakemore shows in her brilliant novel, the spiritual life many of them extolled was as slant and insubstantial as Matthew Hopkins. Review: How weird women became ‘witches’ in a fierce debut historical novel 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z Everything feels very small and insubstantial all of a sudden, which is extremely worrying. Joe Manchin and Donald Trump: The two men who threaten it all 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Yet the cost of dispatching absentee ballots is insubstantial compared to the voter convenience doing so provides. Opinion | Arizona is now ground zero in Republicans’ war on voting 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z At the time, González was landing insubstantial parts in Hollywood despite the fame she’d achieved as a young star in Mexico. 'Godzilla vs. Kong's' Eiza González is a star in Mexico. Why do so few know her in the U.S.? 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z “The Independents” is a wisp of a movie, generally likable but largely insubstantial. Review: Veteran musicians chase a dream long-deferred in amiable 'The Independents' 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z A friend of his said he was "not very impressed" with the SNP's election campaign, considering it insubstantial and lacking in energy and purpose. Salmond and Sturgeon: How the best of political double acts fell apart 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z “On the Rocks”: Sofia Coppola’s latest goes down so easy, it might seem a little insubstantial. ‘First Cow,’ ‘Nomadland’ top AP’s best films of 2020 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z “To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial,” Ms. Morris wrote in “Conundrum,” which became an international best seller. Jan Morris, artful travel writer who broke many boundaries, dies at 94 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z “The court rightly sent the FCC’s handiwork back to the agency because the FCC’s analysis was so ‘insubstantial.’ Media consolidation heads to the Supreme Court 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z Mayan houses were generally relatively insubstantial, with stone bases topped by thatch and wooden structures of which little remains. Mexico experts find 2,000 ruin sites near Maya train route 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Colonial era moralists reminded their congregations that good looks were fleeting, worldly possessions and positions insubstantial, for life was short and humans were flawed. From digital filters to plastic surgery, "Zoom vanity" has a long history 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z “This is not an insubstantial burden,” he said. California's top court caps penalties on nursing homes to $500 for certain lawsuits 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z “These are bizarre times, but not insubstantial,” said Karantonis, an economist, urban planner and Gutshall’s former campaign manager, who won a close race for his party’s nomination in May. Arlington’s special election draws Democrat, Republican, independent candidates 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z But there is a third category: work that is timely over and over again without ever seeming generic or insubstantial. Opinion | ‘Hamilton’ wasn’t just timely. It’s timely over and over again. 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z At the time, many analysts in the U.S. dismissed the agreement as insubstantial. Trump’s pressure on Mexico puts skids on asylum seekers at border 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z Lighthearted and willfully insubstantial, with a certain lazy ease, the comedy first and foremost looks like it made for a delightful time in Hawaii for all involved. Review: Netflix's 'The Wrong Missy' is an Adam Sandler comedy without Adam Sandler 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z Trump wants the debate to be about what's in our heads, which is ultimately insubstantial and unprovable, not what the entire world heard him saying with his own mouth. Gaslighting on Lysol-gate: Now Trump is denying he said what we heard him say 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z “That’s a lot of money being thrown at the problem to improve security. That is not insubstantial,” said Leitschuh, who discovered the Mac camera vulnerability last year. Is Zoom safe to use? Here's what you need to know 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z He was right to be concerned: in April 2011, he was arrested and jailed for 81 days on insubstantial charges. Ai Weiwei: ‘An artist must be an activist’ 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z Prospero in “The Tempest” makes an analogy between the “insubstantial pageant” of theater and existence itself. Review: Now you live here, now you don't. How 'Home' works its magic at the Broad Stage 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z “A not insubstantial part of North Korea’s gross domestic product is based on stealing cryptocurrency funds,” Kennedy said. Two Chinese nationals indicted in cryptocurrency laundering scheme linked to North Korea 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z All 10 players on the floor at the time of the incident were ejected, although that penalty seemed insubstantial as there was so little time left on the clock. Kansas Player Suspended After Brawl With Kansas State 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z The hologram itself has an uneasy pallor, a brighter shade than the humans onstage but at the same time insubstantial, like a ghost struggling to fully materialize. Old Musicians Never Die. They Just Become Holograms. 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z “Iran strongly criticized inappropriate, insubstantial and destructive remarks of some German officials,” Iranian state TV reported. Iran summons German diplomat over 'destructive' Soleimani statements: TV 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z Lutsenko told The New Yorker that he was “aware of Giuliani’s appetite for anything that might embarrass the Bidens” and fed him “an assortment of seemingly tantalizing but ultimately insubstantial data points.” Giuliani admits he needed Marie Yovanovitch “out of the way” for Ukraine scheme 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z As if to emphasize its insubstantial, slightly inauthentic status, he made the painting slightly blurry. Perspective | Long to escape the reality of this political moment? This painting is for you. 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z His debate performances appeared unfocused and insubstantial: in June he was bested by his fellow Texan Julián Castro on immigration. The rise and fall of Beto O'Rourke: how the Democratic star's campaign faded 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z His address was trivial and insubstantial, perhaps deliberately so in recognition that the more consequential event was publication of proposals for a new Brexit deal. The Guardian view on Boris Johnson’s new Brexit plan: dodging the issues | Editorial 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z The lawsuit filed by Gary and Mary West on Tuesday says that stewards and the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission relied on insubstantial evidence. Maximum Security owners sue for $1.86m winner's share from Kentucky Derby 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z District Court says that stewards relied on insubstantial evidence and questioned a “bizarre and unconstitutional” process before and after the disqualification. Maximum Security owners file suit for Derby disqualification 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z There’s no crime in programming a bright but insubstantial piece such as “Composer’s Holiday.” Review | It’s hit or miss for New York City Ballet in first Kennedy Center program under new directors 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z “Under existing law, damages are too insubstantial to provide women with the full restitution or provide bad acting companies a meaningful deterrent,” Connecticut Democratic Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the bill’s sponsor, said. Democrats push through new bill fighting wage discrimination 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z As we just observed after two years of Mueller time, insubstantial spin creates false, arbitrary expectations and often leads to rank embracement. Some meta Mueller questions 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z And, in the end, we might have to accept that, on a personal level, our efforts feel insubstantial. Have we hit ‘peak beef’? 2019-03-16T04:00:00Z Few expect to hear anything more than insubstantial assurances from Brussels and London on the backstop before Tuesday’s vote. Bluster, rhetoric – but no results: last desperate chance to save the deal 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z They were young, their faces cloudless, their bodies insubstantial, closer to childhood than to adulthood. “All Will Be Well” 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z They are remarkably insubstantial elements of the natural world. Very high carbon dioxide could suppress cooling clouds, climate change model warns 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z But he faces up to five years in prison after prosecutors deemed the information “insubstantial.” Trump and Cohen Received Gun Licenses in Exchange for Favors, Former Police Official Alleges 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z And while Rockwell’s good ol’ boy depiction of George W. Bush made for clever fun, it feels insubstantial compared with Driver’s layered performance as undercover cop in “BlacKkKlansman.” Oscar nominations predictions for all 24 categories 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Seen through screens, violence is both compelling and insubstantial. Marie Colvin: ‘She illuminated the cost of war through individuals’ pain’ 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z The campaign has raised nearly $3,000 of its $5,000 goal ahead of this Saturday's game, a not insubstantial amount when you consider the two fanbases' mutually shared revulsion of each other. Alabama billboard trolls LSU fans ruthlessly...for a good cause - Golf Digest 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Early in his career, critical consensus pegged Simon as an insubstantial writer more interested in drawing laughs than in probing the truth of human existence. Legendary playwright Neil Simon, known for 'The Odd Couple' and 'Barefoot in the Park,' dies at 91 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Sure, politics must be an insubstantial part of the church’s activities. Congress could declaw restrictions on politicking from the pulpit — over objections of many chu... 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z The film ends with an embarrassing bland montage of the couple’s cute moments together, which shows those cute moments to be every bit as insubstantial and unmemorable as they looked the first time around. The dystopia Darkest Minds misses an obvious chance at relevance 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z For the last half-century, its main business has been the study of the tiniest insubstantial bit of matter in the universe, an ephemeral fly-by-night subatomic particle called the neutrino. The Neutrino Trappers 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z But the proposal said it was up to each individual country to decide what an "insubstantial part" of a news report would be - and anything else would need a licensing agreement. Why Europe's copyright plan was so controversial 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z As Kennedy correctly noted, the commissioner’s statements disparaged the baker’s faith in two distinct ways: “by describing it as despicable, and also by characterizing it as merely rhetorical—something insubstantial and even insincere.” Fury and despair over the Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling are misplaced | Joshua Matz 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z “Its impact was so amorphous that it already appears to be slipping quietly into the dim recesses that history reserves for minor footnotes about insubstantial events,” the Times reported then. As Trump Preps for Singapore, Which Summits Changed History? Which Flopped? 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist militia that rules Gaza, projects that thousands of Gazans will storm the insubstantial fence that marks the border. At the Israeli-Gaza Strip border, a growing sense of anxiety and fear 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z The offer was dismissed as insubstantial by the U.S. and Mr. Liu couldn’t score a meeting with the president. China Plans Trade Offers for U.S. Envoys on High-Stakes Trip 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z For all the pomp and skilful choreography, however, the results of the summit were insubstantial. Can the euphoria of the Korean summit last? 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z An “insubstantial man”, as he himself admits, he is diffident, filled with self-loathing, incapable of standing up to his bullying father. The damage overbearing fathers do to sons 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The evidence against the other defendants was equally insubstantial. An open letter to President Erdoğan from 38 Nobel laureates | JM Coetzee, Kazuo Ishiguro, Svetlana Alexievich and others 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z This insubstantial account provides no justification for such a crisis-provoking move. Opinion | Nunes paves Trump’s road to autocracy 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Baron’s star power was of a lesser variety, but it was not insubstantial. Why Are Mutual Fund Fees So High? This Billionaire Knows 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z The one weakness, and it’s not an insubstantial one, of these headphones is that they’re utterly terrible for mobile use. These are the best wireless headphones you can buy 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z I love my beachwear — these cute completely insubstantial crocheted cover-ups that come to the elbows. ‘Dear Helene: Could You Not Wear Beachwear on Sunday A.M. Talk Shows?’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z "Not insubstantial amounts of students are taking out credit cards and pay day loans and getting into financial trouble over all sorts of things including accommodation," he said. Students' debt for 'luxury' life 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Arab and Muslim communities were swept with ‘voluntary’ interviews that at times resulted in arrests on insubstantial premises. How would Trump handle a terror attack? | Aziz Huq 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z The researchers wrote “ … it will be disturbing to many that a not insubstantial proportion of those polled demonstrated neutrality and indifference or, worse, expressed support for antiquated views on race.” Trump, hate groups draw power from the indifferent 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z It is a world that isn’t insubstantial but that is elusive to the uninitiated or to outsiders. Victory in the Shadows 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z At first the music seemed insubstantial compared to his operas — unsurprisingly, given the work’s frothy sweet-shop subject matter. Eloquent Understatement: This Week’s 8 Best Classical Moments 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Some critics argue the whole Mélenchon campaign contains an element of the hologram: his proposals are insubstantial because they are totally unrealistic. Jean-Luc Mélenchon galvanises left in French election - BBC News 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z My body had become strange to me; it seemed insubstantial. God in the machine: my strange journey into transhumanism 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z In the obliterating sunlight, the stones appeared weary and porous, as insubstantial as sugar cubes. A Father’s Final Odyssey 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z A blind man spontaneously regains his sight in “The Ticket,” a hushed drama so meticulously crafted that it almost masks how insubstantial it is. Cautionary fable ‘The Ticket’ ultimately loses its focus 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The benefits are so clear, the costs to states are so low, the reasons to continue resisting are so insubstantial. Opinion | Virginia Republicans’ position on Medicaid expansion is indefensible 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z “Piggy did chest surgery but didn’t do hormones—that’s a menopause mustache,” Opie said reverently, and touched her own not insubstantial whiskers. Catherine Opie, All-American Subversive 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Carper and committee Democrats also complained that many of Mr. Pruitt’s answers were evasive or insubstantial. Scott Pruitt, Trump E.P.A. Pick, Is Approved by Senate Committee 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z But Trump’s vain, vague boast that he could be the one to “solve” the Israel-Palestine conflict is as insubstantial as his many other foreign policy pledges. Obama’s passing shot at Netanyahu is a futile gesture | Simon Tisdall 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z But instead he found himself face to face with none other than the insubstantial ghost of his old mentor. A Trump Christmas Carol 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z It made Fallon seem insubstantial and out of touch, but it’s useful to remember that in September the money was on a different electoral outcome. When Jimmy mussed Donny and other instances of TV softballing Trump 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Wilson’s voice at sound check, even by the energy-preserving standards of a warm-up, is wavering and insubstantial – not always audible. ‘Are we there yet?’: on the road with Beach Boy Brian Wilson 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z In a handful of cases, the problem was that evidence had been tainted by torture; in most, though, the evidence was simply too insubstantial. Why Obama Has Failed to Close Guantánamo 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z While I’m all for minimalist games, the mobile puzzler always felt too insubstantial to really hold my attention for long. Play this: the charming, relaxing Dots & Co is now on Android and iOS 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z He was apparently on the FBI radar after separate reports of “extremist behaviour”, but though he was interviewed by the FBI in 2013 and 2014 his connections to terrorism were thought to be insubstantial. Omar Mateen’s domestic violence was a clue to his murderous future | Suzanne Moore 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z There are some Conservative MPs who think the campaign has stripped bare the buffoon, revealing an ambitious, unprincipled and insubstantial politician. Will there be a general election before Christmas? - BBC News 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z This isn’t insubstantial — at less than 240,000 miles away from Earth, the Moon can be reached in days, instead of the six month-travel time it would take to get to Mars. Why it's time to go back to the Moon 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z But much of the published work is insubstantial, and a worrying amount is fraudulent. Schrödinger’s panda 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Saying “I’m sorry” feels clumsy and insubstantial, but it’s true. How to be human: when (and how) do I open up about past traumas? 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z The Guardian's critic, while more complimentary, still found its tale of thwarted romance in the 1930s "insubstantial", "unfocused" and "freighted with a pedantic nostalgia". Woody Allen’s rough ride at Cannes Film Festival - BBC News 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Among other things, the scientists found concerns that the crops are degrading plant and animal biodiversity to be insubstantial. Scientists refute the scaremongering about GMOs 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z This phone is light enough to be effortless, but not so slight as to be insubstantial. Huawei P9 review: good design outshines dual cameras 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Clinton said Wednesday that she is “more than happy” to engage Trump, and she waved off what she called his pattern of insults and insubstantial arguments. Can Clinton’s focus on experience succeed against Trump where others failed? 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Minds, of course, are not bodies, and The Tempest is a play about disappearances – the “insubstantial pageant” of the world, and we humans who “are such stuff as dreams are made on”. Bed tricks and broken women: Shakespeare's guide to love 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Photograph: Picasa/Laura Borealis Over the continuous din, I struck up some not insubstantial conversations with several of the oil reps, all of whom wanted nothing to do with appearing in my article. For sale: 44m acres for oil drilling, but not if Louisiana's Bucket Brigade can help it 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z The combination of heavily built-up urban fabric and insubstantial foundations was a disaster waiting to happen in this earthquake danger zone. Story of cities #9: Kingston, Jamaica – a city born of 'wickedness' and disaster 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Western intelligence agencies’ knowledge of which rebel groups occupy which neighborhoods is insubstantial, in part because the groups often come together and then break apart. A Troubled Truce in Syria 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z My impression of him as callow and insubstantial remains unshaken. GOP’s desperate Marco Rubio reboot: The #marcomentum narrative is just pathetic and will go nowhere 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z The changes are insubstantial, but the negotiation’s importance is symbolic. Slings and arrows 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z Any sign of trouble in China, no matter how insubstantial, will provoke an outsize reaction, because people don’t like feeling dependent on something they simply don’t understand. What Traders Don't Know About China Could Hurt Them 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z It is also a forum for corporations to show when charges against them are insubstantial, frivolous or malicious. Chief Justice John Roberts makes the right call on civil justice 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z “We do engage politically, but only as an insubstantial part of our overall work.” Nonprofits challenge Utah donor disclosure law 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z By the CDC’s own admission, each of its recommendations is based on weak or insubstantial evidence. Relieving patients of their pain 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z This insubstantial musical, which sits awkwardly between celebration and parody, opened Thursday at the Helen Hays Theatre like a riff off a long-forgotten joke. Review: Broadway’s ‘Dames at Sea’ all at sea _ in the past 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Yes, there actually is one, and it extends far beyond insubstantial talk of design continuity. Microsoft shows that backwards compatibility is forward thinking 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Worse still, those already concerned about climate change would have preferred eight years of quiet achievement to a final, desperate and insubstantial finale. Sorry Mr Obama, but presidents shouldn’t behave like reality TV stars | Rupert Myers 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z “They were as insubstantial as ghosts, and as passive as zombies.” Oliver Sacks, doctor of ‘Awakenings’ and poet laureate of medicine, dies at 82 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z They were thin and elegant—light to the touch but not insubstantial. 7 Habits of Annoying Wine People, Readers’ Edition 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Self-confidence is fine for movie stars, but in the business world it stops bosses from being challenged, and from realising that their big ideas are mostly fleeting, insubstantial and troublesome. Charismatic bosses: A help or a hindrance? - BBC News 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z One reason there hasn’t been a Buckleyesque essay on “The Question of Donald Trump” is that his ideas are too insubstantial to subject to a withering analysis. What Would WFB Do? 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z It will still feel light and airy to its admirers and insubstantial to its critics. Inside West Ham’s new home: how football came to 2012’s Olympic Stadium 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z Being so insubstantial, then, should Pluto be classed as a planet? NASA Mission Brings Pluto Into Sharp Focus — But It's Still Not a Planet 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z We have too many means and only a few insubstantial ends. The Earth, our home, is beginning to look like an immense pile of filth 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Food makers have a long history of using insubstantial health claims to sell food. The GMO Controversy Misses the Point 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z In his trigger section, Eyal uses Instagram to illustrate how emotional pain can be a powerful motivator to use a product — in that app’s case, the mostly insubstantial pain of lost memories. Slot machines perfected addictive gaming. Now, tech wants their tricks 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z It was a good line, classic Cameron — funny but possibly a bit insubstantial.Cameron is privileged but personable, charming but elusive. Who is David Cameron? Elusive leader at heart of UK election 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Liberal environmentalists’ claims that the “environment made the difference” in some congressional races are usually insubstantial. Opinions About The Environment 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z “It all started with a typical childish quarrel over an insubstantial thing,” says Muhic. One Bosnian Man's Search for His Father, the Rapist 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Because his efforts, though well-aimed, are intermittent, often insubstantial and, as such, dolefully indicative of Britain’s gadfly prime minister. David Cameron’s many mansions 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Clocking in at around a not too insubstantial twenty nine thousand signatures already, fans are clearly making themselves heard. Fans Petition Dreamworks Over 'Ghost In The Shell' Movie Casting 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z In a recording of a conversation between officers working on the case, a detective with the Criminal Intelligence Unit acknowledged that the evidence against Brandenburg appeared insubstantial. Shot by the Police in Albuquerque 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Mother and son did travel together, making intermittent trips west, as far as New Mexico, on insubstantial errands that lasted until whatever money was available ran out. Robert Stone, Novelist of the Vietnam Era and Beyond, Dies at 77 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z Further north than the Chardonnay heartland of the Côte d’Or, its climate is cooler so many of its less well situated vineyards produce insubstantial, unimpressive wines. Chablis Shines 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z That is not insubstantial, but it is certainly much smaller than 100 percent. Obama’s claim that Keystone XL crude would go ‘everywhere else’ but the United States The painting is riveting because Edith looks so insubstantial, less present than her gown and coif. See How Egon Schiele Cast Portraiture In His Own Image At This Exhilarating Neue Galerie Art Exhibit 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z A technical but not insubstantial issue is how goodwill is characterized. Seller Beware: Avoid These 6 Gotchas In Selling Your Business 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z For the company that favors an open floor plan, however, those barriers – however insubstantial – vanish completely. Science Is Divided About Music In The Workplace, But It Doesn't Matter 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z Helpfully for political opponents, it also sounds mushy and insubstantial. Why are lattes associated with liberals? 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z It added, “The governor’s presence in court — along with his security detail — will involve a not insubstantial disruption of the normal operating functions” of the courthouse in Travis County, which includes Austin. Drill sergeant pleads guilty to sex assaults Independent panels traced the problems to insubstantial funding, testing and oversight at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and its major contractor, Lockheed Martin. Noel Hinners, a top NASA official, dies at 78 But the pleasing, and infuriatingly insubstantial, half centuries in Leeds and Manchester were a reversion to the bad Bell of old. How England’s players rate after Tests against Sri Lanka and India 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z Sometimes you are forced to find out what your friendship rests on, and sometimes the foundations prove insubstantial. Good friends are hard to find – and even harder to keep 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z London’s new up-thrust is evanescent, translucent and, even to those who work and live in it, strangely insubstantial. London’s high-rise future: thrusting, exhilarating, yet strangely insubstantial 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Still, the incident served as a reminder that for those who live in Washington that the threat of an attack is a constant — no matter how insubstantial it proves to be. Loocal Digest: The first being that assigning morality to something as insubstantial as a corporation is pretty odd in itself. The Fossil Fuel Companies Are Not Morally Responsible For Carbon Emissions 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, this still amounts to a difference of 1.4m - a not insubstantial number when thinking about what to do to tackle pressures on A&E. A&E: Are we asking the right question? 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Dismissing the prosecution evidence presented during the four-month trial as insubstantial, the defense asked the jury to imagine a scenario in which Mr. Guede was the sole perpetrator of the crime. Jurors Start Deliberations in Amanda Knox Trial in Italy 2014-01-30T14:09:39Z He declined to say how much Hezbollah received but called it "not insubstantial". Insight: U.S. and allies target Hezbollah financing, ties in Africa 2013-09-20T06:23:56Z "But it's pretty insubstantial and I doubt if it's affecting the mortality rate very much at all." Do left-handers really die young? 2013-09-07T00:05:10Z The MPs' report said it seemed "very easy" for a PCC to remove a chief constable for "insubstantial" reasons - but the Home Office said strict protections were in place. PCCs 'need more hire and fire power' 2013-08-22T00:40:54Z The MPs said it seemed "very easy" for a PCC to remove a chief constable for "insubstantial" reasons. MPs worried by police chief sackings 2013-07-19T23:38:40Z They add that it seems to be very easy for a PCC to remove a chief constable even when their concerns are about operational policing or are of an insubstantial nature. MPs brand Gwent police and crime commissioner 'disdainful' over tweet 2013-07-19T23:01:43Z It is better than they reject insubstantial ideas after a few weeks of trying, rather than wait months to discover their lack of viability. Try and try again 2013-06-05T10:19:13Z But much of the prosperity of the period was insubstantial, and when the crash came everybody was affected. Gatsby and the way we live now 2013-05-31T16:27:58Z It may be because his work conveys a sense of the insubstantial quality of everyday things, a point of view that runs counter to the prevailing creed of scientific materialism. Ghosts in the material world 2013-05-03T16:37:10Z The chair I was sitting in felt insubstantial; the walls seemed to bend. The Problem With How We Treat Bipolar Disorder 2013-04-26T11:00:57Z The plastic body felt "insubstantial" and the mono speaker on the back "only fair". Samsung Galaxy S4: review roundup 2013-04-24T14:09:06Z There is a consultation taking place to decide which vocational qualifications should be retained - after complaints that there were too many insubstantial qualifications, which carried little weight with employers. Vocational courses status 'boosted' 2013-04-22T00:38:59Z Instinctively, we worry that it's too insubstantial, and spending it is too frictionless. Digital money talks, even when it trades in hats and hamburgers 2013-04-14T16:00:02Z The uncanniness of these tales comes from the impression they leave in the reader that our everyday existence is insubstantial and perhaps chimerical. Ghosts in the material world 2013-05-03T16:37:10Z Otherwise, we are trying to build on sand or air or something equally insubstantial. Let's Finally Get the Fundamentals of Healthcare in Place in Africa 2013-04-08T02:13:58Z Because today's gossip is so insubstantial and frothy it resembles a cappuccino without any coffee, sugar, or chocolately mist on top. Football transfer rumours: Spurs' Gareth Bale to Real Madrid for £37m? 2013-04-03T07:45:22Z The more generic and jargony you are, the greater the likelihood you will be perceived as an insubstantial dolt. How to Send Investors Running for Their Lives 2013-03-19T16:35:00Z Vitter says that the evidence against the individual players was insubstantial and he is dissatisfied with White's independent review. SEC nominee White to tackle questions on her work for NFL, banks 2013-03-12T05:03:40Z We have concluded that the government's arguments are insubstantial. George Osborne's bank reforms inadequate, say MPs 2013-03-11T00:02:01Z Invariably games released on the back of films end up as mere items of supporting merchandise, hopelessly rushed and insubstantial, that leave gamers and movie buffs equally unsatisfied. Star Trek The Game: preview 2013-03-08T17:22:10Z What we miss in our often static discussion of how to combat this phenomenon is that al-Qaeda is as insubstantial as a thought. Viewpoint: Algeria Shows How War on Terror Is Like War on Drugs 2013-01-24T19:05:24Z The costs of such plans, however, are not insubstantial. Education Commission Recommends Core Reforms 2013-01-03T02:23:01Z I knew so in the same way that I knew the world around us was real — was not some fantasy, passing and insubstantial.” Heaven exists. Or does it? 2012-11-20T19:41:21Z If you compare that to the 12-16% effect that the cull can allegedly deliver, that is not insubstantial. Viewpoints: The badger cull 2012-10-16T08:08:58Z Sure, superficially they might seem to, but superficial is also insubstantial, and a relationship that is not based on substance is not a real relationship. Be Happier in Business and Life: 10 Things To Stop Doing Right Now 2012-10-04T17:21:10Z He argues that the hope that AGI is possible rests on a similarly insubstantial metaphor, namely that the mind is "essentially" a computer program. Philosophy will be the key that unlocks artificial intelligence 2012-10-03T06:00:02Z Sure, superficially they might seem to but superficial is also insubstantial, and a relationship that is not based on substance is not a real relationship. Be Happier: Stop Doing These 10 Things 2012-10-01T13:22:00Z It wasn’t a particularly stirring one, and it was certainly as insubstantial as any I’ve ever heard. Will Romney's Convention Speech Change the Campaign's Tone? 2012-08-31T05:50:24Z Her daily calls with Mr. Chang, she said, are short and insubstantial. Dispute With DirecTV Aids Viacom’s Rivals in Children’s Programming 2012-07-19T01:46:00Z "It's not my fault, I was on a cappuccino run when the banks went rogue" would be the truest defence, but it risks making you look insubstantial. Dr Gerry Mander: the therapist the stars trust 2012-07-07T23:05:50Z The bedside cabinets and coffee tables are both inoffensive and insubstantial in their laminated particle board construction. Athletes' Village opens its doors 2012-06-30T20:06:24Z Perhaps understandably for a film-maker so obsessed with corporeality, what seems to have most struck Cronenberg about financial wizards is their ability to grapple with the insubstantial. Why Cosmopolis's natural born banker does not add up 2012-06-18T10:04:42Z Crouch, now seemingly cast into international oblivion, has a record of 22 goals in 42 matches, although most of his success came against insubstantial opposition. Old methods hold sway as Andy Carroll is lined up as England's No9 2012-05-25T21:30:03Z Others have dismissed reputation as insubstantial—a “shadow” in Abraham Lincoln’s phrase, or an “uncertain flame” in James Lowell’s. Schumpeter: What?s in a name? 2012-04-19T15:09:45Z And by such little turns of phrase, by such insubstantial influences, coming from the teacher, the pupil's character is molded. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z During the hearing, the applicant’s marketing and fiscal studies were shown to be incomplete, insubstantial and misleading. Op-Ed Contributors: A Development Test in Adirondack Park 2012-01-17T03:08:10Z But whatever their diplomatic logic, such moves may carry a not insubstantial domestic political cost in an election season where the President’s rivals are keen to paint him as insufficiently supportive of Israel. As U.S. Explores Dialogue With Muslim Brotherhood, Israelis Urge a Tougher Line Against Islamists' Rise 2012-01-05T09:55:00Z Yahoo said in a defense filed to the Singapore court Dec. 13 the articles that Singapore Press claimed were reproduced without authorization were insubstantial and insignificant. Singapore Press Says Yahoo! ‘Deliberately’ Committed Plagiarism 2011-12-28T19:44:07Z He had walked the courtyard with levity, half prepared, from previous experience of his intended father-in-law, to find the glories insubstantial. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z The articles that Singapore Press claimed were reproduced without authorization were insubstantial and insignificant, Yahoo’s Southeast Asia unit said in a defense filed in the Singapore High Court today. Yahoo Denies Infringing Singapore Press’s Copyright, Sues 2011-12-13T10:00:20Z They rise all around in insubstantial drifts, never seeming to alight, yet stinging in clusters. Life's Minor Collisions 2011-11-03T02:00:17.547Z I pray, perpend, my dearest dear; While blue-eyed maids the praise were drinking, How insubstantial was their cheer— It was of yours that I was thinking! Chimneysmoke 2011-10-27T02:00:25.953Z Even more vexing than managing the growing conflict among the stakeholders of the anti-Gaddafi resistance, is the challenge of integrating Gaddafi's own, not insubstantial political support base into a new order. After Muammar Gaddafi, a Perilous Race for Power in Libya 2011-10-21T10:05:00Z After this, a man is as insubstantial as a cloud.” Letter from China: Chinese Law Could Make Divorced Women Homeless 2011-09-07T12:40:27Z Early Years "Having no definite values, one is nothing, insubstantial and devoid of character." Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z Both these vastly experienced men were withdrawn, as was Michael Carrick, who had provided the most insubstantial of midfield shields while contributing nothing to the attack. Tom Cleverley assumes Paul Scholes's United mantle with youthful zest 2011-08-07T18:38:36Z It all seems a little bit light, a little bit ludicrous, a little bit short term, it was all very glossy; it was all very insubstantial. Hackgate alone won't drain the trivia out of public life 2011-08-02T21:00:01Z Truly, though shadows are insubstantial things for the greater part, there is one exception. The Real Man 2011-07-29T02:00:28.280Z He could dower the insubstantial sigh of a long dead soul or people with the wing�d word. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z Having no definitive values, one is nothing, insubstantial and devoid of character. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z But just how insubstantial these measures were, in terms of fundamental change in the regime’s rule, became evident from the moment that Libyans rose up in mid-February, triggering the civil war that continues now. Week in Review: In Libya, Delusion Makes a Last Stand 2011-06-18T21:44:53Z Suddenly, at its very zenith, the snap of a pistol dislimns and scatters this great jubilee, as though it were, indeed, the insubstantial fabric of a vision. The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt 2011-05-24T02:00:12.183Z His requests are “entirely insubstantial on the merits,” said Shelledy, who is based in Sacramento, California, and represents the government in the case. Low-Tech Unabomber’s Belongings Going to High-Tech Bidders 2011-05-19T00:50:12Z As it was, the Allied victory, both in Artois and Champagne, fell far short of its aims, and, save for insubstantial advances, was fruitful chiefly in bloody experience. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z "It's always nice," Gradi says of his latest, far from insubstantial, gong. Homespun philosophy of Crewe's Dario Gradi recognised by Football League 2011-03-21T12:19:50Z "However, the tax and legal hurdles still to be overcome on the way are not insubstantial," he said. Volkswagen warns of bumpy road to Porsche merger 2011-03-10T10:06:15Z Even the great biologists, such as Darwin himself, are known rather for their insubstantial theories than for their substantial additions to biological knowledge by patient observation and genial penetration into the secrets of nature. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z In the garden where that officer spoke there was a white milky radiance, so that all the trees seemed insubstantial as in a fairy grove where Titania might lie sleeping. From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917 2011-03-04T03:01:00.007Z But what we are seeing here is not even so insubstantial to be called a trend. Obama Changes Course on the Defense of Marriage Act, and Gives Progressives a Reason to Cheer 2011-02-24T22:20:00Z A beautiful but insubstantial girl, in 1943 she ran off with the much older Charlie Chaplin. Escape Artist: A New Biography of J.D. Salinger 2011-02-10T02:20:00Z And these were not insubstantial, since our only regular field of interaction was a suburban high school cloistered away in a rather conservative part of early 1990’s Ohio. My lust: A Valentine's Day confession and the psychology of infatuation 2011-02-14T17:15:02.580Z Indeed they seem freed from all heaviness, almost insubstantial. War 2011-02-10T03:00:52.487Z Had the plan succeeded it would have shown that Irish nationality was an illusion, or at best a thin and insubstantial product of a passing historical phase. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z With oil prices edging toward $100 per barrel and the existence of a not insubstantial Islamist movement, the U.S. fears that the advent of democracy in Egypt might not be in America's strategic interests. Egyptians prepare for the worst as protests rage 2011-01-31T16:51:00Z If you look at the trends, 2,000 is not an insubstantial number. Irish emigration worse than 1980s 2011-01-20T11:05:16Z It's an insubstantial document and it's well short of a strategy. Osborne's growth plan is 'insubstantial' - Tory MP 2010-12-21T12:35:30Z In contrast, Russia's bid – as showcased yesterday at the International Football Arena conference – relies on appealing to the not insubstantial ego of the Fifa executive committee. England and Russia bid to be different in race for 2018 World Cup 2010-10-26T23:06:00Z This is the most peculiarly lightweight and insubstantial Australian team for a generation, an unusual combination of age and inexperience. Are we allowed to talk about the Ashes yet? Please? 2010-10-07T07:00:00Z The only thing this debate about who deserves what really tells us is that very few people are willing to admit just how insubstantial and malleable our innate character really is. The non-existent moral case for tax cuts 2010-10-01T12:30:00Z A not insubstantial 44.1% said there would be more than one model. RIM's BlackPad tablet launch 'imminent' 2010-09-22T12:17:00Z Andrew Tyrie, chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, said the coalition's efforts so far - detailed in a document called the Path to Strong, Sustainable and Balanced Growth - were "insubstantial". Osborne's growth plan is 'insubstantial' - Tory MP 2010-12-21T12:35:30Z The wind that day caused the insubstantial thoroughfare to undulate wildly up and down and then disintegrate. Taking Lessons From Engineering Disasters 2010-07-19T21:12:00Z That is insubstantial, by government standards - the cost of one missile or a new jet for a congressman - but it cut cases by well over a third. Gel Cuts AIDS Risk for Women 2010-07-19T20:09:00Z There is nothing so insubstantial that a mountain of explication and criticism can't be built on top of it, and when you have a legitimate mass sensation, such as "Glee," no holds are barred. The copyright wars come to "Glee" 2010-06-09T21:55:00Z Gordon Brown and Tony Blair were suckers for flashy but insubstantial ideas about transformation. 2010-01-21T10:37:00Z As he stepped out upon the street, she seemed as insubstantial as a dream of his imaginative youth, far separated from any reality with which he had any durable association. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop There is evidently some machinery—it is the insubstantial pageant that calls forth Prospero’s famous lines. How Shakspere Came to Write the Tempest The Robertsonian impulse seemed to have died utterly away, leaving behind it only five or six very insubstantial comedies and a subdued, unrhetorical method in acting. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Pure Gothic was transformed, rendered even more insubstantial and lighter, thanks to Oriental decorative motives. The Cathedrals of Northern Spain For the present everything remains in the vagueness and formlessness of an indefinite idea, and so with regard to the gaseous universe we have only an insubstantial conception. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" The myriad wonders art hath wrought I deemed eternal as God's love: No more than shadows these shall prove, And insubstantial as a thought. Idyllic Monologues Old and New World Verses It was one of those things born of thin air—sunlight, bright waters, the reflection of a bright room—things which are intangible and insubstantial. The "Genius" It seemed to him that things would always henceforth be insubstantial, and events utterly unimportant. The Immortal Moment The Story of Kitty Tailleur The whole insubstantial pageant had faded, leaving not a wrack behind. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies Thus also a man walks in a strong sunshine of the mind, and follows smiling, insubstantial meditations. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers To endow these insubstantial and reflected phantasms with some activity and mimic play, a theory of the association of Ideas has been erected, without having previously established that they are capable of such confederation. On the Nature of Thought or, The act of thinking and its connexion with a perspicuous sentence Specious, but quite insubstantial; for we can analyze the terrestrial conditions which led to that catastrophe, and assure ourselves that the bugbear of their recurrence is nothing more than a bugbear. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' The exploits so far have been small and insubstantial, but a break is inevitable. Little Brother The thin insubstantial vapors of a little before had solidified, taken on a grosser leaden hue. Slaves of Mercury On earth That sloth a nothing seemed; a nothing now That chasm whose hollow bars thee from the Blest, Poor slender film of insubstantial air. Legends of the Saxon Saints But all the time that I was feasting on these insubstantial glories, my meat was being cut down and my coat hung ever more loosely over my ribs. A Son of the Middle Border So small, so fragile, so insubstantial was the shell, that Winny's slight figure in the doorway showed in proportion solid and solitary and immense, as if it sustained the perishable fabric. The Combined Maze One should be a disembodied spirit indeed to make anything out of such insubstantial experiences. The World I Live In There is, for example, the insubstantial and formless but pleasing conception of the Indian Veda. Moon Lore But for mechanical rationalism, personality is an insubstantial illusion. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy The strong desire to behold the loved ones who have passed away is indeed the impulse; but they too return, though insubstantial. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Weighing myriads of tons, it seemed quite as insubstantial as the mist which transfigured it. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West A monstrous hotel rose before them, its masonry pale, insubstantial in the twilight, a delicate framework for its piled and serried squares of light. The Creators A Comedy She seemed insubstantial as a dream, environed by shadows. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel And it is failure in this respect that has made so much of idealistic philosophy thin, lifeless, and insubstantial. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays To some, the world Is a bleak desert, parched with blinding sand, With here and there a mirage, fair to view, But insubstantial as the visions born Of Folly and Despair. Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics The world is to him but an insubstantial pageant that shall dissolve and fade, leaving not the trace of the thinnest cloud behind. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 And he had come through it all as through a thing insubstantial, a thing that gave way before his soul and its exultant, processional vision of God. The Creators A Comedy "Rappacini's Daughter" is a very representative instance of those "insubstantial fictions for the illustration of moral truths, not always of much moment." Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman Yet he was as ready as the next to build a house of mystery out of the insubstantial timber of ignorance. The Invaders Active yet insubstantial, he was slight and short and a trifle too punctually, though not yet quite lamentably, bald. The Outcry That voice belonged to no one on earth but Iris Wayne, yet that insubstantial grey shadow which seemed to speak was only another ghost, a figment of his overwrought brain. Afterwards She could not say how or at what moment the incredible thing happened, but of a sudden the world she looked at became luminous and insubstantial and divinely still. The Creators A Comedy All realities are immaterial and insubstantial; they shift their expressions, and lurk in many forms, leaping forth from the most unlikely disguises, and vanishing as suddenly as they came. Milton There were three closed doors in the walls, and the walls themselves were light amber, of oddly insubstantial appearance. Legacy Her head was very light on my shoulders, and she felt curiously insubstantial, like a woman of feathers. The Door Through Space True enough these speculations are ingenious and touched with suggestive light, but they are strangely insubstantial. Modern Religious Cults and Movements There were things, vague and insubstantial, which he could not understand. Never-Fail Blake Certainly the Constitution does not require oral argument in all cases where only insubstantial or frivolous questions of law, or indeed even substantial ones, are raised. The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 The beyond is vague and insubstantial, but it is instinct with life and purpose. Nature Mysticism How insubstantial the things of iron, wood and stone! The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service The chiaro-oscuro will have gone from life; the moral landscape, whose beauty and grandeur is at present so much extolled, will have dissolved like an insubstantial pageant. Is Life Worth Living? Dull and persistent, it is the only substantial feature of the insubstantial world of shades. Horace and His Influence There is something strange, mysterious, and insubstantial about the war in the air that the soldiers do not yet feel or comprehend. Tommy Atkins at War As Told in His Own Letters It is the vague and insubstantial pageant of a dream. Preaching and Paganism From a little distance the house, against the sky, looked insubstantial, a water-colour, painted in grey and amber on a field of luminous blue. Grey Roses Thus entertained then by insubstantial society I grew up, and began to be old, before I had yet learned age is disastrous. Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance The coast of America now looked more like a low-lying fringe of insubstantial cloud than solid land. Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Perhaps he was the wraith, the departing vision of the decaying fabric; an apparition, insubstantial as the honours and dignities of the ancient and revered house of——! Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 Shuddering, insubstantial, but luminously apparent, I stood there before them. Famous Modern Ghost Stories However, the splendour and reality of the sun, making such an overwhelming contrast with the insubstantial phenomena of the gloomy night, prevented undue cerebral activity. The Lion's Share Her large black hat emphasized the whiteness of her brow, the brilliance of her most beautiful eyes; and then all the rest was insubstantial sprite and airy nothing, to be crushed in one hand. The Marriage of William Ashe Good folk in Bugletown footed it down the cobbled streets, and through paved kitchens; Loveday danced a finer step on insubstantial ether, into realms more vast. The White Riband Or, a Young Female's Folly We refused to work with unclear or insubstantial concepts but we gave all things a clearly defined sense. Readings on Fascism and National Socialism Selected by members of the department of philosophy, University of Colorado Hers was the lightest of light labour, the delicate handling of thousands of cancelled notes—airy, insubstantial things, as it were the ghosts of bank-notes, released from the gross conditions of the currency. The Divine Fire To me it is rather an insubstantial kind of ingenuity, ingenuity turning in a circle. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory But the forms were grey and insubstantial; it was all fiat and grey like the pictures in the illustrated papers; the very blood of it ran grey. The Tree of Heaven Height beyond height, glory beyond glory--from the reality above, the eye descended to its lovelier image below, which lay there, enchanted and insubstantial, Nature's dream of itself. Lady Merton, Colonist She had made of the old house "an insubstantial faery place," and Rachel laughed for pleasure. Harvest His presence was so transparent, so insubstantial, that it didn't seem to matter either. The Divine Fire If he wrote the greatest allegory in English literature, it is because he was able to give his narrative the reality of a travel-book instead of the insubstantial quality of a dream. The Art of Letters Radowitz walked home in a whirl of sensations and recollections that made of the Oxford streets an "insubstantial fairy place," where only Constance lived. Lady Connie Elizabeth was now twenty-seven, and her married life had become to her an insubstantial memory. Lady Merton, Colonist The curse of life is this—that every supposed accession to knowledge, every novel theory, is accepted as a complete solution of the whole problem, while every pleasure is despised as transitory or insubstantial. Robert Browning Almost discernible behind the transparent insubstantial walls of sleep, it waited to break through them and invade her dream. The Divine Fire Beyond was the renowned staircase, which, rising with insubstantial grace, lost itself in silvery altitude like the way to heaven. The Pretty Lady And among them, the enchanted city shone, fair and insubstantial, from the depth below; as it were, the spiritual word and voice of all the scene. Lady Connie The vision that has fired most of his fellow citizens has looked to him like a tantalizing but insubstantial mirage. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) When you say that mirages are insubstantial, evanishing, mere tricks of air and eye, the Clarindas retort, 'But if you take away our mirages, where are we to turn? The Precipice They were blurred and insubstantial, like things remembered rather than actually seen. The Divine Fire A white moon stares Time's thinning fabric through, And makes substantial insubstantial seem, And shapes immortal mortal as a dream; And eye and brain flicker as shadows do Restlessly dancing on a cloudy wall. Poems New and Old The masterpieces of the men of action are coarse and common in comparison with it, and the masterpieces of speculation flimsy and insubstantial. Occasional Papers Selected from the Guardian, the Times, and the Saturday Review, 1846-1890 Earliest daylight made this suggestion look very insubstantial; on the other hand, it strengthened his memory of Mr. Charman's virtual indebtedness to him. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories When viewed in the light of that modern common sense which has guided economic discussion, it seems formal and insubstantial. Theory of the Leisure Class What an insubstantial, happy, foolish time it was! David Copperfield The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 He had dreamed—it was the most insubstantial of dreams—that she had given him the right to believe that she looked to him to transmute her discontent. Roderick Hudson If ever she looked ahead she felt instinctively that the gulf between them was too deep, and that the bridge their passion had flung across it was as insubstantial as a rainbow. Summer Any given ground of distinction will seem insubstantial to any one who habitually apprehends the facts in question from a different point of view and values them for a different purpose. Theory of the Leisure Class Then the shadowy flowers fade, The walls waver and melt and the houses disappear And the solid town trembles into insubstantial shade Round the light of the burning glow-worm, steady and clear. Georgian Poetry 1918-19 His dream-woman had always been very insubstantial and remote, but Juliet was a real woman, alive and passionate, with a real father and a real mother. The Foolish Lovers Pale hair rolled into an insubstantial puff above each ear. Mary Olivier: a Life All his old world now seemed as remote, as insubstantial, as phantomlike, as this had seemed. The Gray Dawn Mystery, symbolism, shadowy suggestion, fugitive thought, elusive beauty, beings that are mere insubstantial abstractions—these are the characteristics, but designedly so, of Poe's poetry. Selections from Poe How far above all modern armament is his prophylactic against his insubstantial fellow-lodger! Among My Books First Series She married the Marquis of Vaccarone, a babbling Neapolitan, insubstantial and light. Cæsar or Nothing These biscuits were so worm-eaten that a slight pressure of the hand reduced them to dust, which rose up in little clouds of insubstantial aliment, as if in mockery of the half famished expectants. American Prisoners of the Revolution That was large and vague and insubstantial, permeating like an odor the humdrum purlieus of the day. The Web of Life I never pass one without taking out my mental sketch-book and jotting it down as a vignette in the insubstantial record of my ride. Italian Hours The three snow-summits of Monte Sfiorito, at the valley's end, seemed almost insubstantial—floating forms of luminous pink vapour, above the hazy horizon, in a pure sky intensely blue. The Cardinal's Snuff-Box You have too good sense, Madam, to be imposed upon by my arguments, if they are insubstantial. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Zeena herself, from an oppressive reality, had faded into an insubstantial shade. Ethan Frome Like so many other things, it had become insubstantial. The Emancipated Family pride's too insubstantial a thing, you see. Demos These phrases harmonised well enough with her own insubstantial thoughts and idly-gathered notions. The Whirlpool Holly had pressed her lips again to his forehead with a feeling that it confirmed his theory that all matter was becoming spirit—his brow felt somehow so insubstantial. To Let An imagination of this vigorous cast can give existence to insubstantial forms, and stability to the shadowy reveries which the mind naturally falls into when realities are found vapid. Vindication of the Rights of Woman The years that had vanished were so insubstantial in memory; now and then, what was it that divided the two? The Emancipated We seem so delicately made, so destructible, so insubstantial; yet it is easier to reduce a granite statue to ashes than it is to do that with a man's body. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2 Considered in itself, the classic style is always tempted to accept slight, insubstantial commonplaces for its subject materials. The Ancient Regime "But," said the Englishman, "is not this world a phantom and a dream as insubstantial as the visions of the ardent mind?" Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches Women doubtless need more substance, being in themselves more insubstantial. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard From it rose the towers and high-peaked roofs of the city, insubstantial as a dream. The Path of the King The literary projects which had stirred so actively in his mind twelve hours ago were become an insubstantial memory; to the one crushing blow had succeeded a second, which was fatal. New Grub Street As opposed to the vigorous personality, there is the colourless, flavourless, insubstantial sort, forgotten as soon as learned, and for ever confused with that of the previous or the next comer. Penelope's Irish Experiences As evening falls, A dream dissolves these insubstantial walls,— A myriad secretly gliding lights lie bare . The House of Dust; a symphony All things had turned to ghosts; the whole mass of the world was insubstantial vapor, surrounding the solitary spark in his mind, whose burning point he could remember, for it burnt no more. Night and Day So feeble and insubstantial did he feel himself that he repeated the word aloud. Night and Day |
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