The ephemerally flooded depressions are called vernal pools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coastal Hills - Santa Rosa Plain] Reference

It is ephemerally duplicated again as a twin reflection on each of his spectacle lenses.    From Wordnik.com.  [justinker Diary Entry] Reference

Use the money the way you want to - frivolously, ephemerally, to no lasting purpose whatsoever.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Ode To Elegance, Or: The Best Meal I Think I Ever Had] Reference

They are able to exploit locally and ephemerally favorable conditions during much of the year quite freely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Future change in processes and impacts on Arctic biota] Reference

The famous, sometimes infamous, Fête des Fous gave the lower clergy, if only ephemerally, the traditional freedom accorded the fool.    From Wordnik.com.  [WISDOM OF THE FOOL] Reference

A second shadow was ephemerally eviscerated, vaporous guts spilling in a nebulous stream from a ragged cleft that had been ripped in its side.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kingdoms of Light]

Wishes and hope are wonderful ephemerally positive energies for a society to feel, nevertheless, 350 million need to pay the rent and feed themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Getting ready to hold Obama's feet to the fire.] Reference

The quartet of creatures whose path it had ephemerally encountered fell behind; their identities unknown, their insignificant purposes in life restored.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Triumph of Souls]

One of the other songs that turned up during my grading shuffle play was "Dance, Dance, Dance" by the Beach Boys, a fragment of pop at its most ephemerally joyous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference

This one's been doing the rounds of the cyber rights communities for a while now but it's interesting that the mainstream media does occasionally notice and provide prominence to such matters, however ephemerally.    From Wordnik.com.  [B2fxxx] Reference

The difference, as Liberals and most moderates point out, is that taxation is fairly predictable and stands a chance of directing the funds toward the common good, whereas common theft nearly always is spent ephemerally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vernon Smith on Globalization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

"Magic realism" describes a style of Latin American writing where dreams and reality meet on equal footing in worlds lying ephemerally in between, poised to subvert back to the norm the very instant a strange experience is realized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zumpango: the guardians of a forgotten cemetery] Reference

What does that make us? gods? who control over our non sentient beings that have no life in themselves but only manipulated by the human beings who don't eternally live but eventually decompose into void, only for living ephemerally?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Top Stories] Reference

The president, as well as other members of government, need some ability to converse ephemerally -- just as they're allowed to have unrecorded meetings and phone calls -- but more of their actions need to be subject to public scrutiny.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Obama Should Keep His BlackBerry – But Won't] Reference

Then floating ephemerally amongst the millions of “publishers” will be the collaborative enterprises, the wikis, the community databases with APIs, the twitter public timelines, etc — all held in trust, in the public commons, or perhaps by nonprofits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Membership has its meaning « BuzzMachine] Reference

Moreover, some generating apparatus appeared on the market ephemerally; some was constantly being modified in detail so as to alter parts which experience or greater knowledge had shown the makers to be in need of alteration, while other new apparatus was constantly being brought out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use] Reference

The expert remarked that "Felix Gonzales-Torres' work is ephemerally beautiful and deeply profound.".    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

When the police are weak enough they may remain banded together; otherwise they are ephemerally honest and nocturnally assassins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference

When the ghosts do manifest themselves, they glide into the novel, ephemerally, just as present in their absence as absent in our presence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bookslut] Reference

Vacariu leads me to a bend in Cave Creek where clusters of maple trees shed red leaves into the eddies, a place as ephemerally beautiful as a haiku.    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed] Reference

I looked out at the ribcage of the sky that marched off endlessly into the horizon, lighter clouds drifted ephemerally above in the upper stratosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home] Reference

I don't know whether or not Google "reproduces" on its servers the stories to which it links, and if so whether ephemerally for indexing purposes, or more permanently.    From Wordnik.com.  [EXCESS COPYRIGHT] Reference

Most of the mansions, however, squat ephemerally upon the soil, no cellar to them, and no staircase, the total fragile box ready to bounce and caracole should the wind drive hard enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories] Reference

We couldn't piece it together at the time, but as we descended the mountain, a universal karma of some ethereal origin held us all ephemerally together in a circle of humanistic familiarity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference

With Microsoft's Office 2010 suite planning to ephemerally transmutate into the digital cloud, it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that Apple is intending to make the same transition with their iWork suite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cult of Mac] Reference

Differences, however ephemerally, fall away in the face of the realization that all individuals share the same basic needs, that they can treat one another with dignity despite any disagreements as to worldview.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anarchist news dot org - Comments] Reference

But if you factor in "stream communication," which implies that by reading the stream of data flowing in from your various contacts you're ephemerally "in touch" with them, then the average user communicates with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fast Company] Reference

Of course, sporadically and ephemerally, a man out of the impecunious and undistinguished mass may now and again find his way within the gates; and more frequently will a professed "Man of the People" sit in council.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation] Reference

It circulated at first (ephemerally) in Britain, but its longer-term survival was to be as part of a written New Zealand English that eventually developed (alongside a spoken New Zealand English) in the decades following 1840.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book & Print in New Zealand: A Guide to Print Culture in New Zealand] Reference

The self-proclaimed "voice of the generation" has been nothing but a nuisance in the pop-culture world since popularizing the movement from hip-hop to effect-heavy pop music last fall with the ephemerally enjoyable "808s and Heartbreak.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Berks county news] Reference

Residential mortgage debt was merely one part of the base of an inverted pyramid of substantially unsecured (i.e. ephemerally insured or hedged) debt the upper layers of which were composed of various iterations of secularized debt and derivative instruments.    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference

Sometimes it it worked, albeit ephemerally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewschool Tees for the Red Diaper Jew | Jewschool] Reference

"An inexplicable impulse, foolish and unreasonable in its nature, may ephemerally appear to offer a sufficient excuse for your conduct; but there are duties imposed upon you which are incompatible with your regard for a poor girl such as I am.    From Wordnik.com.  [Louise de la Valliere] Reference

) ... so I guess it boils down to whether CarpeNivem wants to say literally 'grab (as in physically take) the snow' or more ephemerally, 'seize the snow' in the sense of taking advantage of the presence of snow ... egh.    From Wordnik.com.  [reddit.com: what's new online!] Reference

You can copy ephemerally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

It has to be ephemerally perfect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seattlest] Reference