ephemerality

The company prizes ephemerality in a quasi-Buddhist way: They treat their pieces like mandalas, spending a month gathering grains of sand only to blow them away at the end.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 2, 2026

For those who have forgotten about Deen’s massive, global reach prior to her undoing, the movie is an eye-popping reminder of celebrity ephemerality.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 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

Design projects this sense of immediacy and ephemerality not only through T-shirts or the Internet.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin

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

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

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