transitoriness

Example Sentences

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Such writers suggest the radical path to happiness comes from recognising the inevitability of unhappiness that comes as a result of the human birthright, that is, randomness, mortality, transitoriness, uncertainty and injustice.

From The Guardian • Mar. 19, 2019

But if there is one thing I can say about Ohio, it is that nowhere I’ve lived possesses such a sense of transitoriness.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2017

"It catches perfectly the play's melancholy and preoccupation with time, transitoriness and loss," says our own Michael Billington, "even if it cannot efface golden memories of the one he did at Stratford in 1958."

From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2011

Though pleased by the friendliness of Americans wherever they went, the Lafonts were perplexed by the lack of bidets in their hotel rooms and bothered by the transitoriness of American living.

From Time Magazine Archive

The broken spout is a brisk reminder of the transitoriness of coffee-pots and of life.

From Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Arnim, Elizabeth von