transience

• Upon such fragile transience was the fame of Cereus House founded. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
• The scene was all the more fearsome for its violent transience: Cavernous faults and tall mountains formed and vanished here in a geological eye blink, as the surface flexed endlessly in the tidal tug of war between mighty Jupiter to one side, and nearby Europa and Ganymede to the other As the hellish world swelled in the main screen, Art just barely found his tongue. —  Analog, July-August 2006
• This corresponds perfectly to the spirit in which the New Museum was created - because it was designed to bear witness to the state of archaeology, a field just taking shape at the time and inseparable from the idea of transience. —  signandsight.com
• Obviously, to some extent transience is natural for youth, but in the context of North America it is taken to an extreme that seems to indicate the influence capitalist society has on it. —  Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends
• In fact, the whole card aches with transience: by the time it thrummed in the palms of the boys of America the superduperstar had moved on, traded to Baltimore, the regal joy of the card's blazing gold uniform a lie. —  Baseball Toaster

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