| These pithy moments come too seldom to rescue the narrative from its own insubstantiality, though. |
| Not the least haziness or insubstantiality. |
| He and D'Ardelo may end trapped in a mutually spun web of fictions and lies, but Ramon accepts this insubstantiality as inherent to the human comedy. |
| Five miles up from their origin, at little more than atmospheric pressure, they made a rising column of insubstantiality. |
| This vagueness and insubstantiality is bound up with the director's artistic-intellectual outlook and methods. |
| Her name is Miss Ethel, and she is a ladylike but depressing phenomenon, all made up of nerves and American insubstantiality. |
