The fleetingness of the Internet has therefore become very attractive to me. From Wordnik.com. [Elfriede Jelinek - Interview] Reference
EnP reminds me of the beauty, and fleetingness, of whatever is in front of me. From Wordnik.com. [Apres L'Ondee] Reference
I had thought of it as part of the fleetingness of poetry, making it evaporate and all that. From Wordnik.com. [ABSTRACTION AS TRANSLATION] Reference
I think about youth and agility and the fleetingness of it all and the gratitude for it now. From Wordnik.com. [blog: November 2009] Reference
I am afraid I was not overwhelmed with thoughts of the fleetingness of life or the horror of death. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
The fleetingness of Obama's support is evidenced by the number of childish posts on this and other similar sites. From Wordnik.com. [Report: Hillary Won't Quit Race] Reference
The last word of the wise on life has ever been its fleetingness, its appalling changes, its unexpected surprises. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
Skylights cast fleetingness of weather into steadiness of fluorescents, making the polished marble floor seem to stir. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
I suppose that it is the flux of this that makes me uncomfortable, the sense of fleetingness and perhaps, too, of lightness. From Wordnik.com. [Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia: The Moment Art Changed Forever (Tate Modern, 2008)] Reference
Of course, the fleetingness, and the awareness of the fleetingness, of childhood and family happiness is hardly a novel artistic theme. From Wordnik.com. [Intimate History] Reference
His sense of his own unworthiness I have called morbid; morbid, too, were his sense of the fleetingness of life and his concern for death. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Portraits] Reference
May 11, 2010 at 3:29 am so against mono no aware insisting on non transience, so against notions of a floating world, against Ukiyo, impermanence, evanescence, fleetingness, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Néojaponisme » Blog Archive » Infiniti Brand Journey: Flower Robotics pre-interview] Reference
His choice of a pool of water being momentarily disturbed by a ripple is in accordance with Samuel Taylor Coleridge's imagery in describing the fleetingness of the altered state in "Kubla Khan". From Wordnik.com. [The Annotated "Ripple"] Reference
As is usually true of entertainment districts, even the best of them, Asakusa was marked by an ephemeral quality, by a sense of the fleetingness of all pleasure, which was perhaps part of its allure. From Wordnik.com. [Virtual Violence] Reference
Nothing can better express the shallowness and fleetingness of knowledge without obedience. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons. [Vol. I.]] Reference
And their poets were wont to bewail the fleetingness of life, and the unknown condition of the dead. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons. [Vol. I.]] Reference
Max Ophuls 'trenchant, somewhat cynical look at the spontaneity and fleetingness of love comes full circle in. From Wordnik.com. [Home Theater Forum] Reference
He dwelt a great deal on the fleetingness of life, and the wisdom of making the best of its few charming things. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange] Reference
Of the frailty and the fleetingness of our nature, what an appalling and mournful exemplification have we just beheld. From Wordnik.com. [The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. I] Reference
Everyone begins to sing the Life Support message of the fleetingness of life and reaffirm that there is "no day but today". From Wordnik.com. [ΤΟ ΑΠΕΝΑΝΤΙ ΠΕΖΟΔΡΟΜΙΟ] Reference
His knowledge of the fleetingness of life, and of the unimportance of all he had once thought so important, was too vividly present. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in love and in terror] Reference
There is an underlying reason, brothers and sisters, for all this fleetingness: those who bestow the transitory things of the world are, themselves, transients. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Perhaps Laura may have found this contrast between permanence and fleetingness depressing; anyway, her face was sad as she sat quietly there, looking in front of her. From Wordnik.com. [The Privet Hedge] Reference
And this apparent fleetingness and unreality of the locality of the isles was most probably one reason for the Spaniards calling them the Encantada, or Enchanted Group. From Wordnik.com. [The Piazza Tales] Reference
But the perpetual mutability and fleetingness of those immediate objects of sight render them incapable of being managed after the manner of geometrical figures; nor is it in any degree useful that they should. From Wordnik.com. [A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision] Reference
And suppose a man says, 'I am not going to take the fleetingness of the things of earth into account at all, but intend to live as if all things were to remain as they are'; what would become of him do you think?. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John] Reference
It was as Skip always said: there could be no Fat Tuesday without Ash Wednesday, the gorging of carnival being incomplete without the spare reminder of life’s fleetingness. From Wordnik.com. [The Lampshade] Reference
Their very fleetingness charmed. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
The fleetingness of memes « Squash. From Wordnik.com. [The fleetingness of memes « Squash] Reference
The idea is about fleetingness of everything. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Ragogna: Monday Will Never Be The Same : Conversations With Goo Goo Dolls' John Rzeznik, David Gray and Josiah Leming] Reference
Posted by Squash » Blog Archive » The fleetingness of memes on April 10, 2006 at 6: 07 am. From Wordnik.com. [The Internet as “idea processor” « Scripting News Annex] Reference
In all its fleetingness. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasury of Sacred Song] Reference
The fleetingness of memes. From Wordnik.com. [2006 April « Squash] Reference
A universal problem in the midst of the fleetingness of the moment. ". From Wordnik.com. [Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life] Reference
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