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Ms. LaViola, dressed in a vintage gown decorated with rat skins, said the appeal of the event was its ephemeralness and communality.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2012

This intensity of perception is largely the result, or the cause, of the poet's unusually sensitive consciousness of the ephemeralness of love.

From The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Atkins, Elizabeth

Such is too often the ephemeralness of contemporary reputation.

From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)