unsubstantial

How To Use unsubstantial In A Sentence

• This scenario was as unsubstantial as most of the claims made by campaign groups about the potential danger that anthrax could be easily used as a bio-weapon.
• It is also refers to unsubstantial talk or writing.
• He eats appreciatively after the manner of a _bon vivant; _ he uses his napkin gently and frequently; he glances blandly at the surroundings; watching him, you would suppose the viands were the choicest of the season, exquisitely prepared, while, in reality, they are poor and unsubstantial stuff, the refuse, perhaps, of better restaurants. Fifth Avenue
• All is as unsubstantial, as vague and shadowy, as Coleridge's "image of a rock," or Bishop Berkeley's "ghost of a departed quantity," as he once defined a fluxion. Life: Its True Genesis
• His flesh as unsubstantial as cobwebs, veins and arteries, tendons and muscles all clear beneath the ethereal shine of translucent skin. Earl of Durkness
• I agree, it doesn't necessarily mean much if the money earned is unsubstantial - but it's still commercialisation by stealth.
• It is precisely this form of unsubstantial surface democracy of neoliberal politics that the author the original article attempts to point toward.
• She had half-expected his phantom body to be so unsubstantial that his hands would fail to make any real contact. COLDHEART CANYON
• To say that Colbert's testimony was surprisingly unsubstantial, if funny, would be unfair, because it would imply we expected celebrity testimony before congress to be anything other than unsubstantial. Stephen Colbert testimony: a mockery, but of whom?
• Absolutely and there was a not unsubstantial minority within the party that felt that this was nothing that the Greens should have accepted and should have agreed to, and they felt betrayed by their leadership.