unenduring

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She was a dark, unenduring little flower—yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things.

From The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

There are many ways of exciting phosphorescence and fluorescence, the latter being merely an unenduring phosphorescence, which ceases when the exciting energy is cut off.

From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Luckiesh, Matthew

Impulsiveness.—This trait is closely allied with the last: unenduring emotions are emotions which sway the conduct now this way and now that, without any consistency.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

Now justice and injustice are about certain actions and passions, which are unenduring and transitory.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

This, perhaps, was of the less moment as his anger was of an unenduring kind, evaporating frequently with more celerity than he could get the angry words out of his mouth.

From Doctor Thorne by Trollope, Anthony