Insubstantial in a sentence

It's clear you engaged in this mob violence for a not insubstantial period of time.

Similarly, 1953’s (a pun on "feux d'artifice," the French term for fireworks) could have been silly and insubstantial in a lesser director’s hands.

Despite the spooky shenanigans, there is nothing insubstantial about the pub's Sunday lunches where beef, turkey and gammon are served with seasonal veg and chef Paul's gravy between noon and 5pm.

To put this in blunt terms, approximately 24 percent of the United Kingdom’s population is disabled – we had, in our manifesto, three insubstantial commitments on welfare reform for disabled people.

When they seem insubstantial or fueled by some silly and transparent motivation, we may assume there’s something they’re obscuring.

If you think of TV shows like food, some are as sweet and insubstantial as cotton candy, some are comforting like a delicious burger, and … some are overcooked and unseasoned.

A friend of mine has relatives in Germany who converted some of their not insubstantial family wealth into gold bars and buried them in the woods of Bavaria.

But, though lush and a passable diversion, his film ultimately feels insubstantial.

Due to the insubstantial value of the assignment, the Honor Council recommended a reduced sanction of a zero on the assignment, an overall one-letter grade deduction, a verbal warning and an educational program.

But he seems determined to achieve this while having Seoul subsidise his economy, while hoping to erode the US sanctions, and that President Trump will accept insubstantial denuclearisation measures.

Near-immediate, easy, anonymous, it served as a playground for my not-insubstantial id.

A review in Gramophone highlights how the newly added monologue "helps to give a weighty focus to Act 3, otherwise a phenomenal feat of reconstruction on Glazunov's part, but somehow insubstantial".

David Thomson called her body of work "insubstantial" citation and Pauline Kael wrote that she could not act, but rather "used her lack of an actress's skills to amuse the public.

He was also critical of her reinterpretation of Lady Macbeth in 1955, saying that her performance was insubstantial and lacked the necessary fury demanded of the role.

In the process of obtaining this result, the United States made clear to the Arab states and several other members of the Security Council that the United States envisioned only insubstantial revisions of the 1949 armistice lines.

Qtd. in Crossland, 294. Burke also associated republican principles with alchemy and insubstantial air, mocking the scientific work done by both Priestley and French chemists.