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unsubstantiality - definition and meaning
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Still, when I looked more intently, I was unable to say that it was really mist; for it appeared to blend with the plain, giving it a peculiar unrealness, and conveying to the senses the idea of unsubstantiality .
The House on the Borderland 2007
And the pervasive unsubstantiality creates an underlying aura of anxiety - the feeling that all of it can and will be leveled and scattered in some approaching cataclysm ...
America Has Left the Building: An Open Missive of Anger and Hope 2006
They will have flung great arches and domes of glass above the wider spaces of the town, the slender beauty of the perfect metal-work far overhead will be softened to a fairy-like unsubstantiality by the mild London air.
A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006
Phillips Oppenheim118 and a whole generation of writers and its very mention invokes a feeling of unreality and unsubstantiality .
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
Phillips Oppenheim118 and a whole generation of writers and its very mention invokes a feeling of unreality and unsubstantiality .
A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994
In the midst of his schemes for the baffling of the jealous love of the woman who was to save him, and the getting to England, in shipwrecked and foreign guise, as the long – lost heir to the fortune of Sir Richard Devine, there arose ghastly and awesome shapes of death and horror, with whose terrible unsubstantiality he must grapple in the lonely recesses of that dismal cavern.
For the term of his natural life 2004
For all its unsubstantiality , the air seemed as alive as the earth seemed dead.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
For all its unsubstantiality , the air seemed as alive as the earth seemed dead.
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates Robbins, Tom 2000
The former discussed what he called “the unsubstantiality of aesthetics” in the Preface to his Life and Letters.
IMPRESSIONISM IN ART THOMAS MUNRO 1968
So, the Hermetic Teachings do not preach the unsubstantiality of the
The Kybalion A Study of The Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece Three Initiates
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