ephemerality
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Perhaps Safdie isn’t trying to do anything more than introduce a new generation to Kerr, and throw out some feeble, last-minute ideas about the ephemerality of violent sports glory, as the film’s ending would suggest.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2025
Narrated by Kausar in vignettes, often in staccato sentences, and interspersed with poetic flashbacks from the perspective of the father and mother, this fragmentary form has the effect of ephemerality — much like life.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 31, 2023
“The idea of the going-out top is sort of inherently linked to ephemerality and experimentation,” Idacavage says.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2023
The work’s marriage of ephemerality and materiality is a defining characteristic of Barth’s approach over the past three decades, and among many aspects of her practice that have influenced a younger generation of artists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
Sad will it be when the genius of ephemerality has invaded all departments of human actions and human motives!
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various
Few things better represent life’s varied ephemeralities than being excited about fall foliage’s exploding colors, just before the leaves die and become the primary ingredient in wintry, brown sidewalk sludge.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025
This lively companion however having acquired a habit of running into that little room, and finding Gerard good company, often looked in on him, and chatted ephemeralities while Gerard wrote the immortal lives.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
On the real "great questions" Tennyson was not loth to speak, and spoke gravely enough; even to the ephemeralities, as we have said, he paid rather too much than too little attention.
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury
This lively companion, however, having acquired a habit of running into that little room, and finding Gerard good company, often looked in on him, and chattered ephemeralities while Gerard wrote the immortal lives.
From The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
