evanescent

• There was an inexpressible pleasure (airy and evanescent, gone in a moment if he dwelt upon it too thoughtfully, but very sweet) to Middleton's imagination, in this idea. —  Sketches and Studies
• Evidently he knew him self, and even in his brief experience with the world he understood how uncertain and evanescent are the winds of Fame. —  Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography
• They were evanescent, and, like a thunder-storm, seemed only to clear the atmosphere for the display of beautiful weather. —  The Memories of Fifty Years
• It is held by some that one of the best means of giving the sense of a little fixity to lives that are but as the evanescent fabric of a dream and the shadow of smoke, is to secure stability of topographical centre by abiding in the same house. —  Diderot and the Encyclopaedists
• “How evanescent, fugitive, fitful she looked — slim and swift as a Northern streamer!” —  The Three Brontes

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