fleeting
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Moorby said Turner's paintings were complicated and the "technical skill of it will stop you in your tracks", often presenting the idea that "nature endures, but man's time here is very fleeting".
From BBC
Mr. Herman rightly notes that unipolar moments are fleeting.
The result is at once a tribute to a fleeting moment and a consideration of a more enduring legacy, at times painful, elsewhere joyous.
From Los Angeles Times
The Frenchman duly broke and Medvedev, who has vowed to be more "positive" on court, gave the first fleeting signs of losing his cool.
From Barron's
History shows, however, that such unipolar moments are fleeting.
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