ephemerality

Example Sentences

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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

What these crypto-religious artists shared was a vision of divinity shot through with doubt and wonder, weighing the desires of the flesh against the ephemerality of the holy spirit.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2025

They loom as reminders of the ephemerality of life and memory amid all that neatly ordered steel and concrete.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2023

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

In a newspaper office, where one impression so quickly and inevitably obliterates another, sensation is startling only in the fact of its ephemerality.

From Stories from Everybody's Magazine by Various