ephemerality

Example Sentences

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The company prizes ephemerality in a quasi-Buddhist way: They treat their pieces like mandalas, spending a month gathering grains of sand only to blow them away at the end.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026

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

They loom as reminders of the ephemerality of life and memory amid all that neatly ordered steel and concrete.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2023

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

Sad will it be when the genius of ephemerality has invaded all departments of human actions and human motives!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various