单词 | insubstantiality |
例句 | And it is not the relative insubstantiality of her clothing that causes Marco to stare, but the tattoo that snakes across her skin. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z What had frightened Burnham, at first, was the apparent insubstantiality of the design. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the presence of B-list celebrities — including over-the-hill athletes, pro wrestlers, comics and a lingerie model — the man we twice elected to the state’s highest post improbably exuded insubstantiality. Chicago News Cooperative: ?Celebrity Apprentice,? a Primer for Blagojevich and His Prosecutors 2010-04-09T03:30:00Z Even so, these episodes leave a feeling of insubstantiality. Is Curb Your Enthusiasm the best-equipped sitcom to tackle #MeToo? 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z They are present and not present, which lends a frisson of pathos, of insubstantiality, to their testimonials. 2010-01-14T00:31:00Z But at their best, these efforts capture a floating insubstantiality we can't help but recognize because it also belongs to us. 'A Hand Reached Down to Guide Me': David Gates' signature riffs 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Consider, for example, how the term “cougar” unfairly infers predatory behavior, and “toyboy” infers insubstantiality. Men live longer when they marry younger spouses. Why don't women? 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z What Fabre is getting at is the insubstantiality of even the most resonant moment, the way that we are all lost in the face of time. Dominique Fabre and the literature of nothing (and everything) 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z I don't use that analogy idly; if there's a subject to "Somewhere," it's the impermanence and insubstantiality of the things we think are real. "Somewhere": Sofia Coppola's smart, stylish celebrity takedown 2010-12-21T02:02:00Z A dancer glided across tables, placed in front of each foot and then quickly removed, insinuated insubstantiality. 'A Rite' powerfully reveals fragility of Stravinsky's work 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Its apparent insubstantiality encourages the reader to think that maybe anyone could emulate her. Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011-01-01T00:05:32Z Financial markets have “re-priced” assets to reflect both the insubstantiality of the many highflying business plans they were previously willing to fund and the indispensability of basic supplies, such as food and energy. Opinion | Real stuff matters, because real stuff happens 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z She is referring equally to the story she is telling and the insubstantiality of life. Review: Patti Smith's 'Year of the Monkey' blurs past and present 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Seductive instrumental surfaces shimmer throughout “Trans,” their insubstantiality never letting you forget they are only for now, not forever. Review: After 70 years, Susanna Mälkki proves Messiaen’s ‘Turangalila’ is torrid no more 2019-01-21T05:00:00Z But the serial collapse and the sheer insubstantiality of these projects brings to mind Thomas Macaulay’s jibe that an acre of Middlesex is worth more than a principality in Utopia. The Return of the Utopians 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z We grip things hard, the tension of our bodies seemingly in direct contradiction to the insubstantiality of our environment – we go for the burn, while everything around us is liquefying. Will Self: my energy-drink addiction 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z The seeming insubstantiality of the piece was widely understood and appreciated as a commentary on the loss of the west of Scotland's traditional heavy industries. George Wyllie art works auctioned 2013-08-26T23:47:56Z That was sort of true of Palin, but her disastrous insubstantiality, not her beliefs, was the issue. A Campaign of Ideas -- Paul Ryan's Ideas 2012-08-16T13:35:27Z At the start of the crash, both George Bush and Gordon Brown made their own statements about the insubstantiality of economic success and failure, as if this was something marvellous, not something ludicrous. Now Cameron wants us to spend again. And borrow. Have we learned nothing? 2012-07-27T18:30:01Z "Now the soundbite is more like a sound nibble – and it's rare, even petulant, to hear someone challenge its insubstantiality." The soundbite has become a nibble 2011-08-21T18:00:03Z Capello still wrestles not just with weak results at the World Cup but also by the insubstantiality of the displays. Fabio Capello's only concern must be to guide England to a crucial win 2010-09-06T22:00:00Z The insubstantiality of the poet's spectres should touch with a tremulous vibrancy of ultimate fact the reader's sense of the immediate theme. Spectra A Book of Poetic Experiments Before the prince could reply there occurred a phenomenon that sent all thought of such insubstantialities as the secrets of the Fourth Dimension far in the background. Romance Island Deep and definite the shadows, offspring of lordly light and steadfast leaves—not mere insubstantialities, but stars deep sculptured in the grey rock. My Tropic Isle There would always be a sufficient proportion of unborn fools left who would prefer the palpabilities of bodily form to the insubstantialities of pre-natal existence. Without Prejudice And over beyond it all rose the twilight bow, in purplish insubstantiality creeping steadily higher and higher, above the pine-clad heights. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan Science can now educe threads of such exquisite tenuity that only the feet of the tiniest infant-spiders can ascend them; but up the filmiest insubstantiality Shelley runs with agile ease. Shelley; an essay Birth for beauty had also been popular till experience demonstrated the insubstantiality of good looks as a panoply throughout life. Without Prejudice Not content even with pure insubstantiality, I had interviewed various people through Yejiro on the subject. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan |
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