evanescence

• Something of both moods survives, but the dominant tone is a somewhat grey and tempered hope, remote indeed from the oppressive sense of evanescence, the crumbling mortality, of the second poem, remote no less from the hushed exaltation, the subdued but rapturous confidence of the first. —  Robert Browning
• I began to make films that explored the temporal experience of evanescence, like a fleeting glance or a memory. —  Powered by Joomla! 1.0
• His divine spirit flew away, like a falcon which, circling for a time above the earth, vanishes at last in blue expanses. As his life had been the sojourn of an immortal in the region of evanescence, his death was merely one among moments in the existence of the superhuman. Ramses XII woke about sunrise; leaning on two prophets, surrounded by a chorus of priests, he went to the chapel of Osiris. —  The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt
• Being Roman did not mean being subject, in the sense that one savage tribe will enslave another, or in the sense that the cynical politicians of recent times watched with a horrible hopefulness for the evanescence of the Irish. —  A Short History of England
• And it is this very evanescence, this rainbow quality of our hill-top moments, that adds such poignant intensity to their charm. Much of their brief courtship had been spent in such wordless companionship: the man smoking beside her, with, or without, a book, while she worked; and he never wearied of watching that abiding miracle, a picture springing to life under an artist's fingers. "You're not likely to give up this sort of thing, I suppose?" —  The Great Amulet

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