But loving-kindness is not coloured with that transitoriness which is the irremediable defect of love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Summing Up]

I find chalk quite beautiful in its transitoriness.    From Wordnik.com.  [If you glue it down, it's not litter?] Reference

QUOTATION: Life involves suffering and transitoriness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Henry Alfred Kissinger (1923-)] Reference

The literature of the time witnesses to a universal normal swift transitoriness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shape of Things to Come] Reference

He accepted the popular welcome with full knowledge of the transitoriness of the present enthusiasm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Jesus of Nazareth] Reference

Assuming that all things in this world are transitory, the Divine Will regulates this transitoriness through.    From Wordnik.com.  [FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE] Reference

The German shows more solidity of person, less transitoriness and lightness about the figure, and the nose is blunter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance] Reference

As the very coloring of a flower is itself the functioning of the flower's emergence, so fading, transitoriness, is the function of its creativity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind'] Reference

They have that delicate poise of beauty, like the lighting of a butterfly on a bending flower, that adds to our delight the keen sense of its transitoriness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference

The quality of transitoriness is sometimes attributed to the scene or object depicted, sometimes to the artist's perception of a still or moving object, and sometimes to both.    From Wordnik.com.  [IMPRESSIONISM IN ART] Reference

It has been called the law of transitoriness in instincts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals] Reference

It must redeem it for ever from transitoriness and evanescence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drum Taps] Reference

Every mood carried in itself a sub-consciousness of its transitoriness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories] Reference

I have spoken of it already, apropos of the transitoriness of instincts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals] Reference

Everything in the world is transitory, and that transitoriness is absurd!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love] Reference

The picture contains transitoriness, finiteness, yet also a vista of new formation, new land.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature] Reference

In fact, the law of transitoriness has little chance of individualized application in the schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals] Reference

Thoughts of the aimlessness of life, of the insignificance and transitoriness of the visible world, Solomon's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love] Reference

Truly, a motley assemblage, and one well calculated to impress the beholder with the transitoriness of mortal fame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1] Reference

This transitoriness of doctrines appears in many instances, of which two may be selected for a more attentive consideration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogotional] Reference

Interest (s) and nonvoluntary attention, 23 order of development of, 267 selection among, 262 transitoriness of certain, 260.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mind and Its Education] Reference

'All this personal dream' must flee: it is better that it should flee; nay, much of our present bliss rests upon its transitoriness.    From Wordnik.com.  [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference

Heraclitus is not primarily drawing attention to the transitoriness of earthly things, but to the splendour and majesty of the eternal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English] Reference

Apostle adds the other thought of the transitoriness of sorrow, and yet further, the other of its necessity for the growth of humanity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John] Reference

"I am permanent so I cannot fully understand the tragedy that haunts humans from their birth, the tragedy of their own transitoriness.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Still Jim] Reference

But there are few things which, as we grow older, impress us more deeply than the transitoriness of thoughts and feelings in human hearts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Recreations of a Country Parson] Reference

Other and new images have thronged between; we learn at length the transitoriness of all earthly things, even to our grief, and, therefore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Undine] Reference

The two clauses, then, of my text suggest substantially the same thought, and that is the persistence of joy and the transitoriness of sorrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms] Reference

With this is a resignation to change, and something more than resignation -- a delight in those qualities that could not be but for their transitoriness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Children] Reference

Their existence is no guarantee of their permanence, rather is it a guarantee of their transitoriness, unless we earnestly stir up ourselves to their renewal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms] Reference

This keen sense of the transitoriness of everything earthly is a strongly-marked feature of the Oriental mind, and characterized all their saints and mystics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystics and Saints of Islam] Reference

A man who thus thinks has penetrated the nature of transitory things, for he has felt compelled to characterise the essence of transitoriness itself in the clearest terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christentum als mystische Tatsache und die Mysterien des Altertums. English] Reference