ephemerality

Example Sentences

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Perhaps Safdie isn’t trying to do anything more than introduce a new generation to Kerr, and throw out some feeble, last-minute ideas about the ephemerality of violent sports glory, as the film’s ending would suggest.

From Salon • Oct. 4, 2025

The statistic is notoriously volatile, and averaging such a short period only exacerbates its ephemerality.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2025

The movement of the paper is said to signal the presence of the dead, and the delicate material symbolizes the ephemerality of life.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2024

Narrated by Kausar in vignettes, often in staccato sentences, and interspersed with poetic flashbacks from the perspective of the father and mother, this fragmentary form has the effect of ephemerality — much like life.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 2023

I was distressed with a sense of ephemerality, of pale, erratic fragility.

From The White Peacock by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)