There was always a strange impermanency about any repairs that Garrick effected.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Lion Feeds]

It was a disconnected moment of exhilaration — no indication of impermanency, no sign that he did not love her, would leave her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soul] Reference

Because the Hmong never had their own independent country, she said they've always felt a sense of impermanency, and a very strong image in their folklore is that of an orphan boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Hmong communities mourn general's death] Reference

Thought of the way I'd enjoyed the past months, making decisions, running a business, knowing all the time it was just for a year, not a lifetime, and being reassured by such impermanency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twice shy]

Then he talked to her on that essential part of his system, the impermanency of all things, till her doubts were cleared away, she accepted her lot, became a disciple, and entered the "first path.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

For the life on man is wholly subject to danger and impermanency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas] Reference

Generally speaking, we construct for endurance, the Japanese for impermanency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints] Reference

From Aryan India, through China, came Buddhism, with its vast doctrine of impermanency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints] Reference

While Banneker was relieved at the change, he suspected its impermanency should it prove unsuccessful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Success A Novel] Reference

But March had a feeling of impermanency from what had happened, mixed with a fantastic sense of shame toward Lindau.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete] Reference

"The three reflections on the impermanency, suffering, and unreality of the body are three gates leading to the city of Nirwana.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life] Reference

Such scenes, by their majesty, their swift impermanency, their colossal and heedless haste, made his heart ache with indefinable regret.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West] Reference

Even in Japanese art -- developed, if not actually created, under Buddhist influence -- the doctrine of impermanency has left its traces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints] Reference

Wishing, perhaps, to mark the impermanency of the life there and to give it a purely holiday aspect, Mrs. Herbert had christened the place Idle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Just and the Unjust] Reference

Now it is worth while to inquire if there be not some compensatory value attaching to this impermanency and this smallness in the national life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints] Reference

For impermanency is the nature of things, more particularly in Japan; and the changes and the changers shall also be changed until there is found no place for them -- and regret is vanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference

An institution which seemed about to become permanent and a fit and adequate national expression in an admired form of art, was set afloat again upon the sea of impermanency and speculation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time] Reference

'And so you really think of going back for the winter?' she asked Althea finally, when the responsibilities of parenthood and the impermanency of modern musical artifices had been demonstrated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Franklin Kane] Reference

Showers of rain alternated with vivid sunshine, and through the air, heavy with perfume, the mourning dove sang with sad insistence as if to remind us of the impermanency of May's ineffable loveliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of the Middle Border] Reference

Though the people never much occupied themselves with the profounder philosophy of the foreign faith, its doctrine of impermanency must, in course of time, have profoundly influenced national character.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints] Reference

If a being desirous of both were assumed, it would have to be conceived as permanently existing up to the time of enjoyment and release, and that would be contrary to your doctrine of general impermanency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1] Reference

UNHCR aims to encourage integration into one's new country of residence, strives to do just the opposite: To instill in Palestinian refugees a sense of impermanency, and to nurture their narrative of loss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elder of Ziyon] Reference

It made the downfall of her own family less exceptional, less bitter, when viewed as part of a huge impermanency, shifting from phase to phase, with no rule to govern it but the necessities of its own development.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Street Called Straight] Reference

I suppose that, given certain temperaments and certain circumstances, this would have been much like keeping play-house anywhere; in Venice it had, but for the unmistakable florins it cost, a curious property of unreality and impermanency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venetian Life] Reference

She hopes to find Somebody able and willing to buy her freedom -- which Somebody would almost certainly thereafter discover many new and excellent meanings in those Buddhist texts that tell about the foolishness of love and the impermanency of all human relationships.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series] Reference

Without giving away the entire story, which I hope you will see for yourselves, the whole point of the Smithsonian series seems to be that the planet, indeed the universe is in a constant state of flux, that we are immersed in impermanency, surrounded by transiency while we as humans seek the opposite, permanence and reliability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Niagara Gazette Homepage] Reference

Food and drink and ices of various kinds were being served under the trees with lavish hospitality, and groups of young people were wandering about the spacious grounds -- grounds so beautiful by reason of nature's adjustment, as well as by way of the landscape gardener's art, that they made the senses ache with a knowledge of their exquisite impermanency.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Daughter of the Middle Border] Reference

The straw sandals worn out and replaced at each stage of a journey, the robe consisting of a few simple widths loosely stitched together for wearing, and unstitched again for washing, the fresh chopsticks served to each new guest at a hotel, the light shoji frames serving at once for windows and walls, and repapered twice a year; the mattings renewed every autumn, -- all these are but random examples of countless small things in daily life that illustrate the national contentment with impermanency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints] Reference

"You wouldn't have been able to have that capital to build the infrastructure and maintain the enterprise and in difficult times it would have challenged the very essence of the existence of the company because people would have known that impermanency of capital was revealed most in those periods of greatest crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference

Here impermanency differs only in time.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology] Reference

Zone: The dangers and impermanency of surgical procedures, wh ... http://bit. ly/9Cfuvn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference