| He has crafted a plot based on the principle of ephemerality, of transience, of allowing a dream to exist only to have it withdrawn. |
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| The human skull is familiar from the tradition of vanitas paintings where it serves to indicate the futility of human aspirations by stressing the ephemerality of human life. |
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| The repetition of the word century, instead of evoking diachrony, only further betrays the precarious instantaneity of the utterance, its vocalic ephemerality. |
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| The technological ephemerality of this medium means that we will not have the luxury of stumbling across these intimate mementoes in 100 years' time. |
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| The rules are likely to be of interest to those that are interested in the ephemerality of the app. |
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| All of which points out two opposing forces constantly at work on our language: ephemerality and durability. |
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| Artworks as marketable end products came to be replaced by events boasting immediacy and ephemerality. |
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| What would the various social-media sites look like if ephemerality was the default and permanence, at most, an option? |
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| Love and death, ephemerality and permanence were of course also the themes of the operas, so dear to the heart of Credit Suisse. |
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| They help one to cognize the ephemerality of the earthly treasures and the illusiveness of hopes for eternal staying on the Earth in ones present body. |
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| The pursuit of famous hair combines two great pastimes of the human psyche – collection and celebrity obsession – set against the increasing ephemerality of life. |
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| While the intention of the documents was to preserve these beautiful moments forever, the result again is an intensified sense of loss, mediation and ephemerality. |
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| The old standby for safe value, real estate, is as risky as anything else. If you're looking for a company that encapsulates the queasy ephemerality of this economy, you couldn't do better than Amazon. |
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| Poetic, it shows a fact without telling its history thus leaving the doors open to imagination of everyone pointing out the unpredictability of nature and the ephemerality of things and of ourselves. |
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