| The technological ephemerality of this medium means that we will not have the luxury of stumbling across these intimate mementoes in 100 years' time. |
| Artworks as marketable end products came to be replaced by events boasting immediacy and ephemerality. |
| The repetition of the word century, instead of evoking diachrony, only further betrays the precarious instantaneity of the utterance, its vocalic ephemerality. |
| 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. |
| Design projects this sense of immediacy and ephemerality not only through T-shirts or the Internet. |
| All of which points out two opposing forces constantly at work on our language: ephemerality and durability. |
