matter of the moment

Example Sentences

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Part shaman, part Jeff Spicoli, Mr. Miller would insist his skiing greatness was a matter of the moment, a state that couldn't be defined by hardware like medals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 22, 2010

But it is very much a matter of the moment, and what may now seem like a temporal fancy can become, decades hence, a tactile key into the past.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, to go back to the more vital matter of the moment.

From Christina by Moberly, L. G.

Evidently she was one of those persons to whom the matter of the moment is the only matter.

From The Emigrant Trail by Bonner, Geraldine

This is a mere matter of the moment: I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death.

From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney