ephemerality
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Perhaps Safdie isn’t trying to do anything more than introduce a new generation to Kerr, and throw out some feeble, last-minute ideas about the ephemerality of violent sports glory, as the film’s ending would suggest.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025
Narrated by Kausar in vignettes, often in staccato sentences, and interspersed with poetic flashbacks from the perspective of the father and mother, this fragmentary form has the effect of ephemerality — much like life.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
You could argue that Gego’s work, too, is about ephemerality.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
And from Conceptualism, he adopted a material ideal that Minimalism seemed designed to resist: ephemerality.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
The news, formed and conveyed outside the institution of media, reads as a manifesto of immediacy, but also as a testimony to ephemerality.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
Few things better represent life’s varied ephemeralities than being excited about fall foliage’s exploding colors, just before the leaves die and become the primary ingredient in wintry, brown sidewalk sludge.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025
On the real "great questions" Tennyson was not loth to speak, and spoke gravely enough; even to the ephemeralities, as we have said, he paid rather too much than too little attention.
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury
This lively companion however having acquired a habit of running into that little room, and finding Gerard good company, often looked in on him, and chatted ephemeralities while Gerard wrote the immortal lives.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
This lively companion, however, having acquired a habit of running into that little room, and finding Gerard good company, often looked in on him, and chattered ephemeralities while Gerard wrote the immortal lives.
From The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
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