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

In “See Through,” artists Nadia Ahmed and Shannon Hobbs work with wax to examine the ephemerality of relationships.

From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024

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

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