Example Sentences

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He who is content merely to imitate must be content with impermanency.

From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce

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

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 Krehbiel, Henry Edward

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 Garland, Hamlin

And so, wisely, the host or hostess specifies in advance the length of the visit; and the extra little twin bed is a useful symbol and reminder of its impermanency.

From The Comforts of Home by Bergengren, Ralph