impermanency
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Now it is worth while to inquire if there be not some compensatory value attaching to this impermanency and this smallness in the national life.
From Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints by Hearn, Lafcadio
Though the people never much occupied themselves with the profounder philosophy of the foreign faith, its doctrine of impermanency must, in course of time, have profoundly influenced national character.
From Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints by Hearn, Lafcadio
One wonders that the impermanency of his profession does not drive the actor to other vocations—perhaps "trades" were the better word, since the rank and file are better adapted to plumbing than to acting.
From My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life by Anonymous
Such scenes, 177 by their majesty, their swift impermanency, their colossal and heedless haste, made his heart ache with indefinable regret.
From Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West by Garland, Hamlin
He has perhaps been here long enough to learn that—to feel the insecurity, the impermanency.
From A Diary Without Dates by Bagnold, Enid
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