insubstantiality
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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.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2022
She is referring equally to the story she is telling and the insubstantiality of life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2019
But the serial collapse and the sheer insubstantiality of these projects brings to mind Thomas Macaulay’s jibe that an acre of Middlesex is worth more than a principality in Utopia.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 26, 2016
We grip things hard, the tension of our bodies seemingly in direct contradiction to the insubstantiality of our environment – we go for the burn, while everything around us is liquefying.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 15, 2014
And it is not the relative insubstantiality of her clothing that causes Marco to stare, but the tattoo that snakes across her skin.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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