impermanent

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He’s rough-hewn, simple, hardworking, not immune to the impermanent nature of the world but brought up short when that world goes awry; Mr. Edgerton has to give emotional depth to a laconic character.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

But just like a bright impermanent star, the young, wide-eyed boys turned industry-downtrodden men burned out in 2016.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2024

How impermanent we are in the arbitrary nature of existence.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024

His answer is what he calls “Precarious Sculpture,” proliferating jumbles of lumpen objects made from common, impermanent stuff, as if refusing to play by the elitist rules of enduring art.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024

There may be a vast chapter in the development of art here that is largely lost to us simply because Neolithic artists worked in wood or other impermanent materials.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson