ephemerality
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For those who have forgotten about Deen’s massive, global reach prior to her undoing, the movie is an eye-popping reminder of celebrity ephemerality.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2025
They loom as reminders of the ephemerality of life and memory amid all that neatly ordered steel and concrete.
From New York Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
The “Immediate Tragedy” project in particular speaks to both the ephemerality of dance and the importance of celebrating the form, especially while leading dance makers are around.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2023
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
Design projects this sense of immediacy and ephemerality not only through T-shirts or the Internet.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai
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 chattered ephemeralities while Gerard wrote the immortal lives.
From The Cloister and the Hearth by Reade, Charles
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 Reade, Charles
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 Saintsbury, George
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