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There were millions of men in France, each the spit of the rest for mud and momentariness of acquaintance.

From The Tower of Oblivion by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]

This quality of "momentariness," as Phillips calls it, so dangerous in the hands of a commonplace painter, lends a peculiar fascination to many of Reynolds's pictures.

From Sir Joshua Reynolds A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation by Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May)

It has been shown that neither origination from nothing, as held by the advocates of general momentariness, is possible; nor the passing away into nothing on the part of the thing originated.

From The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 by Thibaut, George

The rendering of muscle, supple and strong under the living epidermis, the glow of the flesh, the dramatic momentariness of the whole, have not been surpassed even by Titian.

From The Later Works of Titian by Phillips, Claude

The doctrine of momentariness ought to be a direct corollary of the Buddhist metaphysics.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath