evanescent

• “Conventional lenses construct an image of an object only using ordinary waves, discarding information regarding the fine, tiny details of the object that are contained in "evanescent" waves.”

  R&D Mag - News

• “The sticking point is that art and fashion last, whereas food is evanescent.”

  The Guardian: El Bulli closes: Farewell parmesan frozen air...

• “Scheduled to open in September, this production, like so many that have preceded it, is more daring than definitive, an impossibly gorgeous tapestry of shimmering music and incisive lyrics undermined by main characters who are as evanescent as the ghostly showgirls who hover over the evening's proceedings.”

  The Huffington Post: Martin Maidenberg: So Much To Love, So Much To Regret

• “I wanted something familiar, however evanescent, to fill up the awful silence my mother had left in her wake.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Dark Side of Innocence

• “You could see their faces light up as they realized that they were singing in perfect harmony, their energies perfectly synchronized, the words theirs, their meaning clear and evanescent, the old song suddenly as fresh and new as blossoming daffodils.”

  Simon & Schuster: World Wide Mind

• “Fox Searchlight Brad Pitt meets a new arrival in Terrence Malick's 'The Tree of Life' Tiny and vast, eternal and evanescent, these are the polarities of a work of art that defies categorization.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Towering 'Tree,' Out on a Limb

• “Romney's handlers didn't seem to mind or care that the crowd was tepid and the speech evanescent.”

  The Huffington Post: Howard Fineman: Romney Launches Campaign in New Hampshire As If It's Just Another Box to Check

• “Though beautiful and often filled with evanescent light, few such later works offer more than a decorous shell of all that Friedrich's painting had held.”

  The Wall Street Journal: At the Threshold Between Art and Nature

• “The drunken voices of karaoke revelers, the unctuous pitches of the club touts, the secret whispers of lovers walking arm in arm, all are departed, but somehow, for just a few evanescent hours in the quiet of early morning, their shadows linger, like ghosts who refuse to believe the night has ended, that there are no more parties to attend.”

  The Huffington Post: Barry Eisler: 2:46: Aftershocks: Stories From the Japan Earthquake

• “The real problem is that where both blog and radio welcome the evanescent, books encourage re-reading and rumination.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Coastal Disturbances

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