unenduring

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She was a dark, unenduring little flower—yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things.

From The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)

Impulsiveness.—This trait is closely allied with the last: unenduring emotions are emotions which sway the conduct now this way and now that, without any consistency.

From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Spencer, Herbert

She saw now his success as unenduring, fictitious, his talents besmirched with the vice that was most hateful to her.

From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie

There are many ways of exciting phosphorescence and fluorescence, the latter being merely an unenduring phosphorescence, which ceases when the exciting energy is cut off.

From Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization by Luckiesh, Matthew

The psychic man is unenduring, impure, full of pain, not the Soul, not the real Self.

From The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: the Book of the Spiritual Man by Johnston, Charles