fugacious

Last year, Finlayson, a young trumpeter with an appetite for tangled rhythm and lithe, fugacious melody, released a compelling album, “3 Times Round,” with his sextet.

The moment you catch the tiger by the tail, there’s a new tiger whose fugacious tail requires catching.

The Reporter, on the other hand, calls it "a fugacious bit of whimsy that can only be judged minor Woody Allen".

Petals 5, rarely 6, inserted on the calyx with the 7–20 stamens, fugacious.

In this way Masdevallia, Sobralia, and other fugacious flowers may be used for decorative purposes for two evenings at least, but in the absence of immersion they would wither in a very short time.