unlasting

• The notion that passion fades - that it should be tame and unlasting.

Let’s Talk About Sex Baby! (And keep talking and talking and talking…) « Bound, Not Gagged 2009

SI Analysis on Afghanistan and Pakistan: The US pressed forward with its action in Helmand province in Afghanistan, where it indicated that it intended to clear the area of Taliban and then in a change in strategy leave small units behind to protect the areas; Pakistan continued its effort to rout the Taliban in Waziristan and FATA, after making significant yet perhaps unlasting gains in the Swat Valley.

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet: Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup 2009

The anonymous bones and brief inscriptions led him later to insert a fake historical note “forty centuries into the future” that revealed the “unsubstantial, unlasting character of fame” as it touched a certain Civil War hero.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

The anonymous bones and brief inscriptions led him later to insert a fake historical note “forty centuries into the future” that revealed the “unsubstantial, unlasting character of fame” as it touched a certain Civil War hero.

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

The walls of the house had witnessed men and women come and go for almost three hundred years; now it had invited him to sample briefly its charm, it had enticed him here and offered him its unlasting hospitality.

The Master Colm Tóibín 2004

The even-glow is indescribably lovely, and all the lovelier because unlasting: the moment the red disc disappears, the glorious rosy smile fades away, leaving the pale grey ghosts of their former selves to gloom against the gloaming of the eastern sky.

The Land of Midian 2003

Then he was to go away for they were birds ever going and coming, building ever an unlasting home under the eaves of men's houses and ever leaving the homes they had built to wander.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

Then he was to go away for they were birds ever going and coming, building ever an unlasting home under the eaves of men's houses and ever leaving the homes they had built to wander.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922

Then he was to go away for they were birds ever going and coming, building ever an unlasting home under the eaves of men's houses and ever leaving the homes they had built to wander.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man James Joyce 1911

Before the war Morrie's great drinking came seldom, by fits and bursts and splendid unlasting uprushes; after the war the two states tended to approach till they merged in one continual sickly soaking.

The Tree of Heaven May Sinclair 1904