| 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. |
| These pithy moments come too seldom to rescue the narrative from its own insubstantiality, though. |
| Only when we at last recognize the insubstantiality of all such states, can we utilize them all freely. |
| Alas, though, there is a nagging insubstantiality to the most recent stories. |
| Mill proposed the insubstantiality of the dreamlike future and also that our feeling for the past may be based upon a cosmic joke, a delusion of the dreaming senses. |
