Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet. From LearnThat.org. [Julia Child.]
evanescent beauty. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Ridicule and derision are a kind of evanescent ostracism, a temporary exclusion from the comradeship. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the Science of Sociology] Reference
"evanescent", in the sense of something that man cannot grasp, and that is cer - tainly an aspect of what the author is saying throughout the book. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
But if Europe is a paradise, it is an evanescent one. From Wordnik.com. [Subsidy As a Way of Life] Reference
It is very evanescent and, consequently, rarely seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI)] Reference
Yet happiness is at best a fragile, evanescent thing. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference
Her gaiety had been evanescent and she now experienced. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
They are evanescent, as your dad learned, to his chagrin. From Wordnik.com. [Living Politics: Eight New Year's Resolutions For The President] Reference
Perhaps this is because joy and its effects are so evanescent. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
She was one the effect of whose looks and words is not evanescent. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
The evanescent particles give space a stretchiness, pushing it apart. From Wordnik.com. [In ‘Dark Energy,’ Cosmic Humility] Reference
How his glazed eyes had desperately fixed upon the evanescent moon. From Wordnik.com. [Moonlit Mariposa] Reference
Its unapproachable flavor is supposed to be as evanescent as the hues of a dying dolphin. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
The ancient heirloom was deported to the china cabinet to make room for an evanescent plant. From Wordnik.com. [Going Green] Reference
What seemed eternal has passed away, and what appeared to be evanescent has assumed stability. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
But "Serenade" does not stop there, flooded as it is in beauty, tulle and evanescent moonlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Ballet That Changed Everything] Reference
"Nothing to do," is the phantom of young Imagination, the evanescent hope that promises to crown. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
But, as Bush's father learned, wartime support can be as evanescent as the contrail of a fighter jet. From Wordnik.com. [Now, Yalta On The Fly] Reference
This fearful presence is neither chimera of transient nightmare nor creation of evanescent day-dream. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
And the question now is whether Yeltsin's apparent new life is any less evanescent than his near death. From Wordnik.com. [Reports Of His Death...] Reference
The joy and moral stimulation of work no longer must be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits. From Wordnik.com. [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference
Who can catch the evanescent beauty of her expression or the deep tenderness of her well-modulated voice?. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
Other GOP third parties tend to be evanescent, "developing a huge capacity and know-how and then disbanding.". From Wordnik.com. [The Republican Answer to George Soros's Money] Reference
The feeling may be so faint and evanescent as to escape detection, but this does not prove that it is absent. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
Vowel Sounds are so fluctuating and evanescent that they go for comparatively little in questions of Etymology. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Few things are as evanescent as the froth on top of a beer, but foam is important for brewers and consumers alike. From Wordnik.com. [Beer: Head-to-head competition] Reference
The truth of shadows is that they are always just a fleeting evanescent reflection of something blocking the light. From Wordnik.com. [The Spiritual State: I Shall Fear No Evil] Reference
= — Freckles are of two kinds: Those occasioned by exposure to the sunshine, and consequently evanescent, are denominated. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
And in the age of the telephone most communication became evanescent, gone into thin air no matter how important or heartfelt. From Wordnik.com. [Write For Your Life] Reference
I have glimpsed it fleetingly in the shreds and scraps of dreams that slip away with the dawn — evanescent, like life itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Pursuit of Unhappiness] Reference
But Greek political thinking is so much bound up with the peculiar and evanescent external conditions of fifth and fourth century. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
Finally, it was recognized that school district libraries were an evanescent dream, and that town libraries must take their place. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
We should confine our appreciation of their talents to four quarters, nine innings, the evanescent life span of their physical prowess. From Wordnik.com. [Ignore Them Off The Field] Reference
Not for a moment did this interpretation occur to me, strongly as did the evanescent character of the head militate against the idea of reality. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
In the dim hours of twilight or by a cloudy moonlight, the city pitched amid the drifting aerial heights seems built itself of air and cloud, evanescent and unreal. From Wordnik.com. [The Counts of Gruyère] Reference
They offer an explanation of why the gains a toddler makes in Head Start are so often evanescent: this intensive instruction begins too late to fundamentally rewire the brain. From Wordnik.com. [Your Child's Brain] Reference
"Frankie & Johnny" is a lot of fun when it aims to charm; when it asks to be taken seriously as a realistic look at urban romance, it seems as evanescent as television airwaves. From Wordnik.com. [Love Over Easy, Hold The Mayo] Reference
E-mail may not be as rich or as tangible as the epistolary communications of half a century ago, but it's sure more lasting than the decades of evanescent telephone interactions. From Wordnik.com. [Peace On Earth Good Will.Com] Reference
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