fleeting

• “His rivals have criticized him for failing to convene a meeting of the panel, using that fact to highlight what they call fleeting foreign policy experience.”

  A Rare Day in the Limelight - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

• “Just exuberant bliss, he supposed, an expression of fleeting pleasure, not really a binding declaration.”

  Simon & Schuster: O: A Presidential Novel

• “And I think the older we get, the more we cherish these times together, knowing how few and far between they are, and how fleeting is our time on this earth.”

  2010 March « Becca’s Byline

• “Now we can understand a little better what the word fleeting means in the expression fleeting stains.”

  Mahamudra and the Four Noble Truths ��� 2 Purification of Mental Activity

• “That is what the word fleeting means when we talk about a fleeting stain.”

  Mahamudra and the Four Noble Truths ��� 2 Purification of Mental Activity

• “Albanian refugees fleeting from the Turkish invasions that followed upon the death of Scanderbeg.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne

• “Accomplished in fleeting and fantastic arts that leave no memorial behind them – unacquainted with the beauty and purposes of the realities around you, which work from age to age in silent mercy for gracious ends, and put to shame the toil that has no aim or end.”

  Parables From Nature

• “For the great heart of this mother it was nothing to have this well-beloved son after others, and during only certain short fleeting hours.”

  Droll Stories — Volume 3

• “(What parent isn’t acutely — painfully — aware of how fleeting is the episode of a family’s life with young children?)”

  Intimate History

• “(He didn't recall the fleeting backstage greeting.)”

  The Wall Street Journal: Life in the Middle

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