Unsubstantially

We know we dress like idiots and we know, as the play's characters do, that when they're talking about Aerosmith's disappointments as the play's characters do, they're also talking about our own failed (for now) potential if we refuse to be more than wittily, babblingly, unsubstantially uncommunicative. ❋ Unknown (2010)

• Everything had become a negative of itself so that the fog snuck in like coal smoke and the dark, hard brick of buildings became as light, as unsubstantially white, as glass. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Those who are commissioned by the Lord to bear aloft the torch of spirit are fated to see every joy of the senses turn to ashes and crushing blows upon their eyes to the unsubstantially of the relative life of Maya. ❋ A. P. Mukerji (N/A)

In the latter year he, cautiously indeed, but not unsubstantially, legislated in the direction of free trade. ❋ John O'Rourke (N/A)

Nevertheless, though he did not accept what the agents of the packet offered, fate took the matter into its own hands and rewarded him not unsubstantially. ❋ Unknown (1921)

And to eastward through the opalescent haze, the warmer whites and yellows of the houses in Park-lane shone as unsubstantially as if the clouds themselves had taken on the shape of mansions to mock the men who sat there in the cold. ❋ Unknown (1905)

The front-door also grinds on the sill; it can only be opened by force, and quivers in a way that shows how unsubstantially it is made. ❋ George Gissing (1880)

That is to say, the victuals were made so unsubstantially thin, that in order to impose, if possible, on the appetite, it was deemed necessary to deceive the eye by turning the plates and dishes round and round several times, while the viands were hot, so as by spreading them over a larger surface, to give the appearance of a greater quantity. ❋ William Carleton (1831)