ephemera
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Schoenbrun confidently guides readers down winding, interconnected roads, bouncing between online cults and peculiar digital ephemera to weave a gripping search for truth in a time when the internet has made everything fiction.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026
It includes an architectural model and original blueprints of the Integratron, as well as nearly 630 photographs, negatives and slides, more than 250 audio recordings, 8-millimeter film footage, books, publications and other records and ephemera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
The new complex’s museum presents a bland, uninspiring collection of ephemera.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
The idea is to show ephemera that is beaten and weathered, says Worthington.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026
In one direction it has stagnated in the sunless swamps of a theosophy, from which a cloud of sedulous ephemera still suck a little spiritual moisture.
From Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I Essay 2: Carlyle by John Morley
Scanning the globe and the human ephemerae upon it from the point of view of a millionaire in years, Wells still considers that "Nazi Germany may well bring down conclusive disaster on our species."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Born of the sunshine, on a morning in late December, gray ephemerae danced and dipped and fashioned vanishing patterns against the green of the great laurel at the corner of Drift farmyard.
From Lying Prophets by Eden Phillpotts
I do not, however, mean to say that they are the same flies, but more probably successive generations of ephemerae of the same species.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 324, July 26, 1828 by Various
Verily for us, the ephemerae of thought, this unbroken continuity of the sun of Egypt has more of melancholy even than the changing, overcast skies of our climate.
From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by William Peter Baines
He should neither praise nor blame nor defend his equals; he should not strike one blow at the buzzing ephemerae of letters.
From Letters to Dead Authors by Andrew Lang
To talk of "relaxations," whether in cultural or political control, or of economic or social reform, is to talk of ephemeras.
From Time Magazine Archive
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