Insubstantial

Is it possible that the fashion industry, long patronized as a realm of the ephemeral and insubstantial, is the real bellwether for future ideas of “ownership” of creative content? ❋ Unknown (2006)

Both start with an idea, something insubstantial, that is transformed into an artifact that can influence the world and other people. ❋ Molly Daniels (2010)

That just won't work, particularly when the Democrats aren't very good at battling the Republicans in close combat and the Republicans can make those who stay above the fray seem lightweight and insubstantial, which is what they've managed to do. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The goal for Honda should be to reclaim a place on Consumer Reports' "recommended" list - CR called the new Civic "cheap" and "insubstantial" - and to answer critics who have called the car a "betrayal," as Dan Neil did in The Wall Street Journal. ❋ JEREMY CATO (2011)

Cameron's documentary Aliens of the Deep was visually FANTASTIC if kind of insubstantial as a documentary, and yes, it was absolutely improved by 3D. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And I don't even know why someone would use 'insubstantial' in this context. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The commercial broadcaster was deluged with complaints and fans bombarded internet messageboards, many of them criticising presenter Adrian Chiles for his "insubstantial" apology. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I don't think that that falls under the category of "insubstantial" savings. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Clearly he doesn't think these protests were "insubstantial," or he wouldn't feel so threatened by them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Oh, and there's the small matter of fact that Dem legislation fails utterly to make any serious effort to either reduce costs, improve care or eliminate existing waste - all cornerstones of "insubstantial" Rep proposals.

"insubstantial" meaning, so as to use it as a necessary and sufficient condition for logicality. ❋ Gómez-Torrente, Mario (2006)

We also see a lot of what I’ve started calling the "foofy slipstreamy stories," pieces that are very lyrical, very image-driven, and sometimes very beautiful, but also kind of insubstantial, with no clear sense of what the dream-like magical images mean, or whether they’re even real. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These feelings, however, are the furthest thing from 'insubstantial' in works like Minnis’, Ariana’s, Lara Glenum’s, Danielle Pafunda’s and even your own, I believe, Dodie. ❋ Dodie Bellamy (2008)

Lesbians make up a sizable percentage of the female officers in the military and a lesser, but not insubstantial fraction of the enlisted women. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Greenberg was a brilliant critic, but his view that the proper subject of art was art itself was too narrow and insubstantial a foundation on which to erect an enduring vision. ❋ Eric Gibson (2011)

She [sought] to insubstantiate the direct [association] of personal [fault] from the obese population. ❋ SimplyPhy (2016)