insubstantiality

Financial markets have “re-priced” assets to reflect both the insubstantiality of the many highflying business plans they were previously willing to fund and the indispensability of basic supplies, such as food and energy.

And it is not the relative insubstantiality of her clothing that causes Marco to stare, but the tattoo that snakes across her skin.

It shows us that these insubstantialities can be recycled, caught and released when craft, imagination, passion and wit flower on a poem’s page.

Even so, these episodes leave a feeling of insubstantiality.

Brevity doesn’t necessitate insubstantiality — yet some of these pieces feel insubstantial or insufficiently original.