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

The news, formed and conveyed outside the institution of media, reads as a manifesto of immediacy, but also as a testimony to ephemerality.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai