unsubstantial

Or was he present and yet unsubstantial in some other way?

The aunt is going to call on your unsubstantial father.

They both looked grey and unsubstantial in the fading light.

If he was unsubstantial, how was I going to kill him?

And it looked so utterly unsubstantial that the eye denied its weight.

It seemed unsubstantial, as though one might almost be able to walk through it.

He heard his own name being called, loudly, yet seeming faint, unsubstantial.

The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial.

There was something furtive and unsubstantial about them like two ghosts.

At best, they say, Russia's research area in the unfinished outpost is small and unsubstantial.

"But now the discussions will be very loud and very unsubstantial."

The gigantic, unsubstantial tower rose incredibly far toward the sky.

The bushes thinned until they were unsubstantial ghosts of themselves.

My imagination was running away with me into a morass of unsubstantial fears.

He looks transparent and unsubstantial, for all his bulk.

It was ridiculous and rather pathetic, unsubstantial in time, but oddly sweet.

Instead they face later life on unsubstantial benefits.

If the atmosphere did not press on me, I should feel my body as something vague, flabby, unsubstantial.

The poses reflected a view of man as ineffective, shallow, unsubstantial.

But to get the lower rates, the states have to take on the risk, not unsubstantial, that the cigarette companies will fail to make payments.

This conception of the Great State, on the other hand, is still altogether unsubstantial.

He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul so constantly beheld.

The doctor showed himself clever but unsubstantial and inconsistent.

Pale and unsubstantial in the moonlight, the shadowy figure of a man was moving across the cleared land.

Subsequent scholars heavily relied on his work, adding here and there some further unsubstantial information.