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
Since 2016, they’ve been digitizing Saar’s expansive archive, including correspondence, sketches, playbills, documents and ephemera.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
The new complex’s museum presents a bland, uninspiring collection of ephemera.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
In a similar spirit of upcycling, his exhibition shows Rose Salane’s newest project from Pompeii featuring rocks and other ephemera taken from the historic site.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026
No gossamer adrift on the wind was more a creature of the air, no tranced ephemera more the genius of motion.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Elizabeth Miller
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
Then there are the blue and the brown, both ephemerae, which come on, the first in dark days, the second in bright days; these flies, when well imitated, are very destructive to fish.
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
Above, against the slaty-gray cloud-wrack, four exquisite slender girl-forms appeared, with loose hair, silver-gray drapery and gauzy wings as of ephemerae, flying in pursuit of the cloud.
From A Crystal Age by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
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
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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