impermanent

Example Sentences

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In the Guggenheim’s modernist cathedral of a rotunda, much of her work looked improvised and impermanent, exactly right for an artist who once said: “We are made of throwaways, and we will be thrown away.”

From New York Times

“Everything is impermanent, whether you are male or female,” says Wong, whose normally cheerful manner morphs into rage when strangers stare at her daughter.

From Seattle Times

We live in an age of revision, in which art is impermanent, ever shifting, always on the precipice of being “fixed” or “updated.”

From Washington Post

Barrier islands, as environmental historian Jack Davis once wrote, “are impermanent, precarious places, at the mercy of wind and washing water – making, shaping and destroying them.”

From Seattle Times

Its central teaching, he said, is that everything is impermanent.

From New York Times