impermanency
Americannoun
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An institution which seemed about to become permanent and a fit and adequate national expression in an admired form of art, was set afloat again upon the sea of impermanency and speculation.
From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel
Even in Japanese art—developed, if not actually created, under Buddhist influence—the doctrine of impermanency has left its traces.
From Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints by Lafcadio Hearn
But in this impermanency Hearn finds the greatest excellence.
From Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by George M. (George Milbrey) Gould
Human life suddenly seemed fleeting and of a part with the impermanency and change of the westward moving Border Line.—Like the wild flowers she had gathered, Harriet was now a fragrant memory.
From A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland
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 Hamlin Garland
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