ephemerality
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The company prizes ephemerality in a quasi-Buddhist way: They treat their pieces like mandalas, spending a month gathering grains of sand only to blow them away at the end.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026
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
In “See Through,” artists Nadia Ahmed and Shannon Hobbs work with wax to examine the ephemerality of relationships.
From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024
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
I was distressed with a sense of ephemerality, of pale, erratic fragility.
From The White Peacock by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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