insubstantially

Does it trouble me to write so insubstantially, with air on air?

Not wanting to linger for fear of being discovered, she turned her spirit and swept into the grove, passing insubstantially among the trees.

Player Piano develops two parallel plot lines that converge only briefly, and insubstantially so, at the beginning and the end of the novel.

The ruling theoretically narrowed this fuzzy zone by saying that a product infringed on a patent if it was "insubstantially" different from what the patent described.

She smiled at him and ghosted and he tried over and over again to grapple her while she shimmered insubstantially on the sidewalk.

But that sense of imbalance was typical of the ballet, which bounces lightly but insubstantially between charm and coyness, delicacy and slightness.

But I was lying on the ground with the awareness floating insubstantially, the awareness of the creeping light and the rumbling of heavy vehicles and the man's voice.

In a mixed review, The Sunday Business Post wrote, "Insubstantially frothy at all times, Stars Edge still packs enough of a glittery punch to hold the attention."

Shoes crunched faintly behind me and on the other side of the boulevard a short dark figure walked insubstantially through the reflections on the Intourist windows, a man with a sloping shoulder.

His senses felt correspondingly unfocused, so that T'Kreng's platinum-robed figure shimmered insubstantially at its edges and the banks of machinery behind her looked more like sketches of themselves than actual equipment.

I took one last look at the forgotten place, shimmering insubstantially in the heat, looking as if it might just evaporate one day and no one would mourn it or its company of the damned.

Next time you keep your eyes open and try to see how the trick's done; but however closely you watch you can't untangle the dancing, weaving patterns the bikes make as they seem to pass insubstantially through each other, all ringing their bells.

A REAL PAIN IN THE NECK Bleary-eyed, Uncle L.D. looked over at the rocker, where Mr. Versey seemed to waver insubstantially like a sunken wreck.

Her contortions did have one effect - they caused her skirt to slip back down to at least partially cover her bottom, but rather than pause the strapping to remedy the situation, simply aimed a little lower so that a number of strokes landed on her insubstantially protected thighs.

Under prosecution history estoppel, if the patentee abandoned through an amendment to the patent application certain literal claim coverage (e.g., by narrowing the literal scope of the patent claim), then the patentee is estopped from later arguing that the surrendered coverage is insubstantially different from the literally claimed limitation.

In China, an equivalent is an element of an article which is "insubstantially different from" an integer of the patent's claim: a technical feature which can be conceived easily by the patent's addressee that performs substantially the same function as the claim's integer, in substantially the same way, achieving substantially the same result.