Adjective : an insubstantial world of dreams. ,an insubstantial sum. From Dictionary.com.
Heads talking insubstantially about insubstantial topics. From Wordnik.com. [Wholphin, Eggers and Why I Can’t Believe : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference
Beyond the cavorting surface, images of planetscapes and strange galaxies writhed insubstantially. From Wordnik.com. [The Dreaming Void]
On the screen the missile shape was disintegrating, unwrapping into an almost insubstantially thin mesh as it neared the calf. From Wordnik.com. [Warhorse]
Not wanting to linger for fear of being discovered, she turned her spirit and swept into the grove, passing insubstantially among the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Mortalis]
The sunbeams also made the dome seem to float above the rest of the temple, as if it were a true piece of the heavens insubstantially tethered to earth. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
The castle ghosts were there too, barely visible in the bright sunlight, discernible only when they moved, shimmering insubstantially in the gleaming air. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]
But I was lying on the ground with the awareness floating insubstantially, the awareness of the creeping light and the rumbling of heavy vehicles and the man's voice. From Wordnik.com. [Quiller Meridian]
Shoes crunched faintly behind me and on the other side of the boulevard a short dark figure walked insubstantially through the reflections on the Intourist windows, a man with a sloping shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [The Sinkiang Executive]
The mosquito plague was behind him now, kept away by a steady breeze sweeping down off the flanks of the Great Kells, which like transparent slices of melon were beginning to hover insubstantially to his left. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
His senses felt correspondingly unfocused, so that T'Kreng's platinum-robed figure shimmered insubstantially at its edges and the banks of machinery behind her looked more like sketches of themselves than actual equipment. From Wordnik.com. [Time's Enemy]
People only take objection because of the horrors of insubstantially sized and attached collars. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
The state's goal to be the leading tax-and-spend municipality was boosted not insubstantially. From Wordnik.com. [Dealbreaker] Reference
All that fretting about how divorce has changed the world now hovers only insubstantially, like yesterday's air freshener. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
But restrictively, the xhosa transformer no aladdin indigenously rostov and powerhouse, insubstantially when hemolysis honoree. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
It was the sort of evanescent sentiment inspired by old songs, or by the scent of faded flowers, reviving old joys tenderly, perhaps poignantly, but fleetingly, insubstantially, and only as the wraiths of what they were. From Wordnik.com. [The Letter of the Contract] Reference
The state's goal to be the leading tax-and-spend municipality was boosted not insubstantially by skyrocketing real-estate prices (and the heavy taxes thereon) and permitted some absolutely eye-popping defined-benefit plans for government workers. From Wordnik.com. [Dealbreaker] Reference
O Does it trouble me to write so insubstantially, with air on air?. From Wordnik.com. [Galapagos]
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