Adjective : a momentary glimpse. ,to live in fear of momentary annihilation. From Dictionary.com.
The first flower assists in the development of a plot which is to enact the 'momentariness' of 'sympathy in choice.'. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare Study Programs; The Comedies] Reference
"momentariness," as Phillips calls it, so dangerous in the hands of a commonplace painter, lends a peculiar fascination to many of. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Joshua Reynolds A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation] Reference
The speaker finds satisfaction I think in recognizing the pure momentariness of his vision. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Affinities: A Partial Return to Wordsworthian Poetics After Modernism] Reference
This distinction derives from the non-Gelug literal assertion of the momentariness of nonstatic phenomena. From Wordnik.com. [Fine Analysis of Objects of Cognition: Non-Gelug Presentation] Reference
I want to go just to immerse myself in the momentariness of Vegas at its best - after dark, when the shiny is bright and the worn dull edges of seediness and broken promises are hidden. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions From Las Vegas] Reference
There was a sense of momentariness and expectation. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
And, further, the doctrine of general momentariness would thus be given up. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
When a thing ceases to exist through momentariness, How can anything be old?. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
Here birth and destruction prove their own emptiness by their momentariness. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
Because an inequality is not apprehended, This momentariness cannot be admitted. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
It has invoked impermanence and momentariness, but only as a provisional rhetoric. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
The only Absolute is expediency, the only reality is sensation and momentariness. '. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
The momentariness of jars and the like is proved by Perception as well as Inference. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
Its momentariness impressed it the more vividly on my memory -- I have it there still. From Wordnik.com. [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference
Its momentariness impressed it the more vividly on my memory – I have it there still. From Wordnik.com. [John Halifax, Gentleman] Reference
However, other sects, including the Sarvâstivâdin themselves, upheld absolute momentariness. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
To pit Nâgârjuna against momentariness is an unsatisfactory exercise, for reasons we have seen. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
And on account of the momentariness (of the âlayavij/ñ/âna, it cannot be the abode of mental impressions). From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1] Reference
Cleopatra's watchful melancholy partook also of classic momentariness, and I hoped she would spring to her feet. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Hawthorne] Reference
The MPPS sees impermanence, understood as momentariness, as taking us across the threshold of insight into emptiness. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
The doctrine of momentariness was refined when it became necessary to defend it against Brahmanic orthodoxy (Mimaki, 1). From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
For the following reason also the origination of the world cannot be accounted for on the view of the momentariness of all existence. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
The Renaissance, a collection of criticism that scandalized Oxford in the 1870s by its apparent advocacy of sensualism and momentariness. From Wordnik.com. [Forbes.com: News] Reference
It had become, because of his sense, his generation's sense, of the infirmity of things, a sort of symbol of the eternal flux, the eternal momentariness. From Wordnik.com. [Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers] Reference
If the doctrine of momentariness tended to harden into a scholastic atomism, we may expect there to have been a reaction to it from within Buddhism itself. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
Moreover, for him who maintains the momentariness of the cognising subject and of the objects of cognition, it would be difficult indeed to admit the fact of. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
In the later stages of this tradition, logic overrides intuition in establishing the truth of momentariness and appeal to direct experience plays a diminished role. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
On the basis of momentariness, as the immediate conjunction of birth and destruction, matter is shown to be empty of all characteristics, including birth and destruction. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
More counter-intuitive than impermanence, and more controversial, is the radical thesis of momentariness (ksanikatva) developed over the centuries in Buddhist scholasticism. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
As thus one agent is connected with the two moments of perception and subsequent remembrance, the Vainâ/s/ika has necessarily to abandon the doctrine of universal momentariness. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1] Reference
It has been shown that neither origination from nothing, as held by the advocates of general momentariness, is possible; nor the passing away into nothing on the part of the thing originated. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
But if the context is ksana thinking (not necessarily in a very developed form), the immediate entailment of momentariness by impermanence has already been established and can be presupposed. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
In that case, we reply, the thing will be connected with three moments, viz. the initial, the intermediate, and the final one, so that the doctrine of general momentariness will have to be abandoned. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1] Reference
Thus, i.e. on the theory of universal momentariness, origination from the non-existent, causeless cognition, and so on, it would follow that persons also not making any efforts may accomplish all their ends. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
The only Absolute is expediency, the only reality is sensation and momentariness.’. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight in Italy] Reference
Mail order sildenafil citrate canned accompanied momentariness spilled Barnes pebble. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Fraud scandal hits Volokh Conspiracy:] Reference
"The Sarvâstavâdin are partisans of momentariness; they do not admit an objective time, real in itself. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
In Ratnavâli I 66-74) he defends momentariness against Vaisesika, and then goes on to refute an inherently existing ksana. From Wordnik.com. [Joseph S. O'Leary homepage] Reference
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