But fashion would prove too insubstantial for her.

The other people in the corridor-threechildren, two adults-weresomehow too insubstantial to touch the door.

Family pride's too insubstantial a thing, you see.

And yet the only perimeter appeared to be a metal fence, far too insubstantial to protect against an attack.

There is no role too small, no movie too silly, no character too insubstantial for Rachel Griffiths not to shine.

There was nothing to see but a misguided gray heron, his long, bright yellow legs too insubstantial to hold up the rest of his body.