Grandma and grandpa were there too, only in like a sort of ghostly insubstantial form. |
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The sleeves were made of a filmy, translucent red material, so insubstantial that it was almost not there. |
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Any justification very likely can appear or be made to appear judgmental, discriminatory, unfairly harsh, insubstantial or even anachronistic. |
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It amused me to see the insubstantial evidence you had pieced together as your argument against airguns. |
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Otherwise we get a philosophy that tends to become insubstantial and vaporous. |
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Contrariwise, juries may convict where the judicial decision-maker would find the evidence insubstantial. |
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Because thoughts are insubstantial until we bring them into some kind of material reality with speech, writing, art, machines etc. |
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And so they didn't seem showy and insubstantial, they seemed like real thoughts that had a particular weight. |
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Relative to the musical company into which he's been thrust, his vocal melodies are insubstantial and lyrics pretty but vague. |
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Whether you think it's lovely but insubstantial, or lovely and great, will depend in large part on what you expect from greatness. |
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Her illegitimate position has rendered her wraithlike and insubstantial, almost disembodied. |
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At times, the book is about as convincing as a fairytale, proffering only light and insubstantial imaginings. |
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What strangers we meet are wraith-like, insubstantial, as if at a quarter-turn from our reality. |
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What we really get is a light, frothy, insubstantial comedy that feels more like Meet the Parents, and a really nice DVD package. |
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Mostly, though, this stuff is short, enigmatic, insubstantial and exciting. |
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Despite this, overall rates of survival among older patients with extradural haematoma or subdural haematoma were not insubstantial. |
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Thus he dismissed as insubstantial any pretence to an absolute form of knowledge, which seeks to soar above the resistant medium of experience. |
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Literature concerning photography by Africans remains scattershot and largely insubstantial. |
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Despite its rather insubstantial construction, the basket weighs thirty troy ounces and presages the simple elegance of the neoclassical style. |
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The figure, in its nakedness, has an almost ghostly, insubstantial quality, a pathetic vulnerability. |
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Compared with that, a few rejection slips seem quite insubstantial, really. |
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Their shapes were not clearly distinguishable, as they were covered by some kind of insubstantial black flame. |
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Across it, turrets of the small white mosque seemed as insubstantial as the wobbling outlines of a heat mirage. |
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Even the music, which, whilst variable in quality, has some genuinely affecting moments, ultimately seems insubstantial. |
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But mostly, the songs glide past without really registering, glossy but frustratingly insubstantial. |
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His speeches become dull and mechanical, his arguments as insubstantial as his eyebrows. |
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The balance sheet does not include insubstantial liabilities from leases, which total approximately CHF 2 to 4 million. |
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Signs of stability regarding the economic outlook are still very insubstantial and growth forecasts are still being revised downwards. |
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This is the most recent occasion on which the World Bank has been contacted by the Group and has responded only on the most insubstantial level. |
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The AS assigns priorities to an event from insubstantial, through marginal, weak, moderate, substantial, strong to very strong. |
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When compared to the 64 million in formal secondary school, this enrolment seems insubstantial. |
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As we speak, we have insubstantial knowledge of the boreal forest fauna in terms of chemistry and pharmacology. |
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Bam had once again played the intermediary, and the evidence to justify the representation agreements between Bam and Lahmeyer was insubstantial. |
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Yet when, outraged at such affront, we stand on our rights and demand redress, we would do well to remember how insubstantial the dignity is on which those rights are based. |
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But no matter how many more dot.coms go bust, nobody should infer from the fall-out that the engines of the new economy are passing, insubstantial fashions soon to fade. |
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His aspect was as insubstantial as fog, dreams, or an expelled breath, and in this he resembled billions of human beings. |
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After a brief market rally on Monday, confidence was snuffed out as traders reckoned the support was insubstantial. |
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As one pack of financial cards falls after another, US capitalism will experience a cleansing of the most exposed and insubstantial parts of the financialised economy. |
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The basic unit of classical space is the room, and we should think of it not as a void but as an expansive, albeit insubstantial and invisible, mass. |
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Grover also claims that truth is not a substantive or naturalistic property, but this claim is compatible with truth being an insubstantial or nonnaturalistic property. |
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Despite the insubstantial nature of the wraith, it appeared opaque enough, and stood in the center of the study's hardwood floor with its wings fully outstretched. |
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She becomes daily more insubstantial, her figure wraithlike. |
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In the case of these great masters, the occurrences described are an expression of their realization of the insubstantial and uncompounded nature of all things. |
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When set beside this alarming vitality, his fierce instinct for survival, the other characters seem insubstantial. |
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It is neither a matter of intellectual data distributed capriciously nor of mere insubstantial talk in an ambiguous chat. |
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Commissioner, in all honesty, I find your statement lamentably insubstantial. |
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It would seem to be towards the edge of the power, if at all, and if it were within it, the particular thing might be regarded as insubstantial, tenuous or distant. |
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In the event, they found the white paper was so insubstantial they had very little to say. |
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But the words seem cheap and insubstantial, however accurate they may be, in the face of the real thing. |
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Surprisingly, his insubstantial interim review in October made no mention of polyclinics. |
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It is costly, insubstantial and it is a throwaway commitment that likely will never be met. |
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Everyone talks about them, everyone supports them, but results are lacking or altogether far too insubstantial. |
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All insubstantial copies for research or private study must include this copyright notice. |
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It is therefore possible for an insubstantial part, including single data, of a compilation or database to be copied without infringing the copyright in that compilation or database. |
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Obviously, that vain, insubstantial wordiness of an ambiguous chatter and in general any harmful, damaging and absurd talk manifested in the outer world, has its origin in the wrong inner conversation. |
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Still, the discussion on the link between speculation and hunger riots, and on the measures to be considered to solve these problems, was, unfortunately, relatively insubstantial. |
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She was employed part-time for a period of five years, which, while not insubstantial, does not entitle her... to any special degree of protection from discharge for just cause. |
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There is no official document in which substantial matters and insubstantial ones are clearly demarcated. |
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But the overall effect is flimsy and insubstantial, a gifted writer punching well below his weight. |
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The audience for stand-alone content services will not be insubstantial, but this type of content is not likely to dominate the broadcast medium in comparison with linear programming. |
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Over the last 10 or 11 years, 100 young men in the lower mainland and some in Surrey have been killed in a gun crime, which is not an insubstantial number. |
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As twilight thickened outside, the house's shell seemed too pervious, swelling with the electric light as if it were as insubstantial as the canvas tents at school camp. |
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These figures produced exhibitions, texts, even beautifully designed invitations and posters in an attempt to advocate for and make concrete what many saw as insubstantial and confusing. |
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I am sure that, as the hearings progress, I will find out more about what is meant by that, but I have to say that I think it rather insubstantial. |
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While I was astrally projecting, I felt my soul pass through many insubstantial netherworlds. |
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The single layer plywood construction and insubstantial securing devices and hinges of the bridge front door made it more vulnerable in the event of waves being shipped over the bow. |
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On the basis of their insubstantial foundations, Taylor suggests that the kitchens were not strongly built. |
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At the same time, it would be equally morally unjustified to make insubstantial promises to our neighbours concerning their possible accession, in a situation where neither party is ready for it. |
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The bridge was insubstantial and would not safely carry a car. |
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Spaniards in their early occupation of Caribbean islands did not want to eat cassava or maize, which they considered insubstantial, dangerous, and not nutritious. |
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Burke also associated republican principles with alchemy and insubstantial air, mocking the scientific work done by both Priestley and French chemists. |
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