insubstantiality

Then there was the problem of the insubstantiality of dance.

But there is a strange insubstantiality to it all.

She came floating up the path with her usual appearance of insubstantiality.

Yet their very insubstantiality makes one long to see the performers in stronger creations.

But like the proverbial Chinese dinner, the program's three pieces were light to the point of insubstantiality.

When a vessel goes up, its crew experiences a growing insubstantiality in surroundings.

Despite the insubstantiality of the image it was still a fully operational keyboard.

The thing's flesh might be no more than a ghost to him, but that very insubstantiality enhanced the effect.

They bring, as we have noted already, a curious insubstantiality into the "great scenes" and the important figures.

It seemed almost real; there was no hint of spectral insubstantiality about this one.

"But I anticipate that it will slowly dissipate over time by the weight of its own insubstantiality."

And an aesthetic of insubstantiality, with the ambivalence it implies, runs through the show.

His coat was dull and there was a sort of insubstantiality about him.

Bodies pressed against him with a certain insubstantiality, voices hollow as echoes.

She was painfully thin and there was an insubstantiality about her.

An essential insubstantiality seems to be the theme of some works in a fresh vein, at least for this viewer.

The man-thing which had seemed so solid spun into insubstantiality, clothes and all.

Inside, viewed against the sky, the white lines and crystal-clear glass seem to disappear again into insubstantiality.

And if he even thought to mock its insubstantiality, the earth was likely to open up and swallow him whole.

But it is afflicted with the same problem common to its spirit-world subjects: insubstantiality.

The insubstantiality field produced a blurring effect as the android rose through the ceiling.

It lent the cavern an eerie insubstantiality, a sense of things unseen.

And yet there was an insubstantiality about it; never for an instant did that massive city become solid masonry.

She took the shaft of the arrow in her teeth, then phased into insubstantiality and backed away.

Only the glow of the distant fire lit the room, giving each covered shape a wavering insubstantiality.