impermanence
Example Sentences
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Kelly finds the public’s current craving for unique genre storytelling encouraging, but feels that like most trends, it may be doomed to impermanence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
While you meditate you brood on the impermanence of all things, including yourself, and envision yourself as a corpse, lying out on a bier, all life gone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 2026
Dahlia Lithwick: The book is deliberately rooted in this paradox of permanence and impermanence.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2025
By all measures, this is a movie that needs to do well, even for a studio that prides itself on the impermanence of its properties.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2025
Restlessness, impermanence, and speed were embedded in the culture that soon emerged there, along with an openness to anything new.
From "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser
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