unenduring

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All this narrows the mental horizon and tends to make the results gained superficial and unenduring.

From The Truth About Woman by Hartley, C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine)

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

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)

All nature in its myriad forms of life is changeable, impermanent, unenduring.

From The Way of Peace by Allen, James

But pleasure with the poor is always unenduring.

From Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist by Smiles, Samuel