“Design projects this sense of immediacy and ephemerality not only through T-shirts or the Internet.”

“He has crafted a plot based on the principle of ephemerality, of transience, of allowing a dream to exist only to have it withdrawn.”

“All of which points out two opposing forces constantly at work on our language: ephemerality and durability.”

“The ephemeralness of a shooting star mesmerizes observers as its brilliance abruptly fades into the night sky.”

“She has bitterly resigned herself to the ephemeralness of love with an eccentric and peripatetic young Dutchman.”

“Ms. LaViola, dressed in a vintage gown decorated with rat skins, said the appeal of the event was its ephemeralness and communality.”

“Franklin has written a soliloquy of an ephemeral, an insect which lives but one day.”

“Its three hundred and sixty-five years were now as but the day of the ephemeron.”

“Like the ephemeron fly, they are born suddenly, and may be expected to die as soon.”

“Let not the ephemeron that lights on a baby's hand generalize too rashly upon the non-growing of organisms!”

“Maybe it's me seeing his work and longing for publications, zines, comics, and ephemera I grew up with.”

“Between the offbeat strum, subterranean bass and rock-steady drumming, they leave gaps that other bands would nervously clutter with ephemera.”

“The walls of their project rooms are soon plastered with imagery, diagrams, flow charts, and other ephemera.”

“Spring ephemerals were not found in large numbers during the 1992 growing season because sampling was delayed.”

“Seasonal changes in understory species from spring ephemerals to evergreen herbs are discussed in a number of contexts throughout the book.”

“For example, spring ephemerals will only be found in early spring, and only if they can obtain enough light in the early spring.”