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.

Monica Westin: Why Hipsters Will Save Theater: Cherrywood 2010

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.

Monica Westin: Why Hipsters Will Save Theater: Cherrywood 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.

Flushing Out Shriek: An Afterword–Notes, Fragments, Research, Alternate Scenes 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.

The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga A. P. Mukerji

In the latter year he, cautiously indeed, but not unsubstantially, legislated in the direction of free trade.

The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke

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.

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main 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.

Alarms and Discursions 1905

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.

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates Howard Pyle 1882

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.

Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish main Howard Pyle 1882

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.

The Nether World George Gissing 1880