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  • noun Plural form of ephemerality.

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  • To save this city—or any city where people are hurting—requires rejecting the 'glib ephemeralities' of heedless tax cuts and I-got-mine selfishness in favor of the sense of community and competence that all Americans deserve.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: ALTER: How to Save the Big Easy 2005

  • To save this city—or any city where people are hurting—requires rejecting the "glib ephemeralities" of heedless tax cuts and I-got-mine selfishness in favor of the sense of community and competence that all Americans deserve. '

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: ALTER: How to Save the Big Easy 2005

  • In fiction-making no author of the first class since Homer's infancy has ever in his happier efforts concerned himself at all with the great "problems" of his particular day; and among geniuses of the second rank you will find such ephemeralities adroitly utilized only when they are distorted into enduring parodies of their actual selves by the broad humor of a Dickens or the colossal fantasy of a Balzac.

    The Certain Hour 1909

  • This lively companion, however, having acquired a habit of running into that little room, and finding Gerard good company, often looked in on him, and chattered ephemeralities while Gerard wrote the immortal lives.

    The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849

  • It emerges then only in a few points (originally there, where the organic community stops being in contact with the foreign one), is limited to small circles and informs the ephemeralities, the supplements of production; extinguished as accidentally as it arises.

    Limited, Inc. roger 2010

  • It emerges then only in a few points (originally there, where the organic community stops being in contact with the foreign one), is limited to small circles and informs the ephemeralities, the supplements of production; extinguished as accidentally as it arises.

    Limited, Inc. roger 2010

  • "problems" of his particular day; and among geniuses of the second rank you will find such ephemeralities adroitly utilized only when they are distorted into enduring parodies of their actual selves by the broad humor of a Dickens or the colossal fantasy of a Balzac.

    The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

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