ephemerality
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Origin of ephemerality
Example Sentences
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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
Undeterred by its potential ephemerality, Horvitz began planning the garden.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 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
“The idea of the going-out top is sort of inherently linked to ephemerality and experimentation,” Idacavage says.
From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2023
Once written, words not only defy the ephemerality of the sounds of speech, but also enter the realm of potentially conflicting interpretations.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
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