momentaneous

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Just because he is young and new, you guys fail to get easily impressed by his physical action, but he is nothing new for moviemaking nor martial arts, and he will be another momentaneous product of b-series in action movies, because he has no talent nor charisma at all.

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  1. Lasting for a moment; momentary. Johnson.
  2. Pertaining to instants of time; instantaneous.

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  • Just because he is young and new, you guys fail to get easily impressed by his physical action, but he is nothing new for moviemaking nor martial arts, and he will be another momentaneous product of b-series in action movies, because he has no talent nor charisma at all. —  Recently updated sites at Antville.org
  • "You very rarely see a man dead with any other look on his face--you know the other look And he clenched his teeth with a sudden, momentaneous, ghastly distortion.--"Well, you'd never have known this chap was dead. —  Aaron's Rod
  • The momentaneous shock, the electric flame; —  Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes
  • I say, for instance, within myself, through that inward, simple, and momentaneous word, "Let my body move, and it moves." —  The Existence of God
  • Thus our limited, uncertain, defective, fallible reason, is but a feeble and momentaneous inspiration of a primitive, supreme, and immutable reason, which communicates itself with measure, to all intelligent beings. —  The Existence of God
 

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  1. = French momentanée, Old French momentaine (see momentane) = Spanish momentáneo = Portuguese Italian momentaneo, from Late Latin momentaneus, from Latin momentum, a moment: see moment.

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