evanescence

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.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

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.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

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 ● Jun. 7, 2023

Their brief and glorious friendship suggested that healing might be possible, even as Piccolo’s death at 26 warned of its evanescence.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022

Here was her evanescence, and it was like dying all over again.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

He knew the loveliness in a profile, he saw always the evanescences of light upon light and purposeless things.

From Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley

Every artist knows that between the thought that first gave rise to his design, and each one which appears in it, there are innumerable intermediate evanescences of sensation which no man felt but himself.

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Isaac Disraeli