It already looked small and insubstantial in the gray early afternoon light.

But the piece suggests, unusually, that youth-driven dance need not look market-driven or insubstantial.

Those wings might look insubstantial, but it seemed that a fairy could move pretty quickly when she wanted to.

"These dwarfs may look insubstantial, but they are like cannonballs to a giant galaxy."

The supplied footswitch (hooray) works fine, even if the buttons do look rather insubstantial.

The white cardboard container looked insubstantial in the fleshy stubs of his fingers.

He makes the structure and support of objects look insubstantial.

She saw that there were vines hanging from the ceiling, but they looked insubstantial.

For all its glaring visibility, the barrier looked insubstantial.

The fields beyond looked insubstantial, like a set in a Shakespearean play.