ephemeral

• Stick a "wanted" notice on a sewing pattern entry to let the world know your desire.Vintage ephemera like sewing patterns are, well, ephemeral -- and what I adore about the wiki is that it gives us all a place to preserve and share these bits of history.
• Whether the absolute refusal to carry arms 21 was an idea - 268 - wholly chimerical and ephemeral, the documents are there to prove, but it is a fine thing to have had the power to bring it about for a few years. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life Of St. Francis of Assisi, by Paul Sabatier.
• Smoke dimmed the lighting further, creating an amber haze, twisting with slow torsion into a menagerie of shapes that often appeared identifiable -- ephemeral omega signs and kabalistic symbols and mutant Cyrillic characters --beneath which the closely packed heads of the partygoers bobbed and jerked. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 03 - March 2001
• Leisen's touch is light and ephemeral, antithetical to the slapstick mode. —  davekehr.com
• Very many of these attacks were ephemeral, and not worthy of note. —  The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada

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