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
In “See Through,” artists Nadia Ahmed and Shannon Hobbs work with wax to examine the ephemerality of relationships.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
The movement of the paper is said to signal the presence of the dead, and the delicate material symbolizes the ephemerality of life.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2024
You could argue that Gego’s work, too, is about ephemerality.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2023
Design projects this sense of immediacy and ephemerality not only through T-shirts or the Internet.
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
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
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
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