evanescence
Example Sentences
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Yu Ji’s cement sculptures take the shape of contorted human bodies—not uncomfortable but limberly twisted and folded—that are missing limbs; their contrasting materials and postures at once suggest permanence and evanescence.
And when these apparitions vanish, the text’s overriding theme—of life’s evanescence but also its beauty—does finally dovetail with the ghostly images created by the technology.
Another cause is the evanescence of serious history curricula in schools, and an ignorance of the honor in service.
They are intricate and variegated, playing with scale, with transience and permanence, with memory and evanescence.
From New York Times
The book’s setting 30-odd years ago comes to dovetail with that age gap’s built-in sense of evanescence.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
