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“That’s what history tells us: we can have short-term impact with shocks to the system like this, but they tend to be fleeting.”

“Some of em last for a long time if we’re lucky, but most of them are fleeting,” he wrote.

The evangelical mixing of musical genres and geography had its touristy elements; however engaging and engrossing the wonder-making, it was always fleeting.

Look closer, though, and the effect is fleeting.

From Salon

Worshipful crowds filled his concert seats —women particularly adored him — but the love felt fleeting and unreliable.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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