How To Use Ephemera In A Sentence

I'd live the transient and ephemeral existence of a backpacker for a week, an existence of freedom and simple pleasures.
The use of the linguistic frame ‘as A said to B’ is therefore potentially infinitely productive, even if examples are ephemeral, singular, and difficult to collect.
The moment the pumping of the ether or rhigolene ceases, the tissue operated on ceases to be frozen, so ephemeral is the degree of the cold obtained by these means. Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882
For the romantic and postromantic traditions of poetics in which Benjamin and Adorno participate, modern lyric ambition stands as a, or even the, high-risk enterprise, the "go-for-broke-game" [ "va-banque-Spiel"], of literary art: The lyric poem must work coherently in and with the mediumlanguagethat human beings use to articulate objective concepts, even while the lyric explores the most subjective, nonconceptual, and ephemeral phenomena. Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics
Composed of hundreds of ephemeral objects, from sugar cookies to vials of cheap perfume to devotional candles, popular santos, kitschy trinkets and cans of Goya beans, ‘Infinito Botanica’ is a vast still life.

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It is unusual to make a dedication of something as ephemeral as a column. Times, Sunday Times
More generally, there are the well-known patterns whereby plants with large genomes cannot adopt an annual or ephemeral lifestyle and in which weeds tend to have small genomes.
He continues by breaking down UxD, examining how each element implied in the title illuminate his hypothesis - that the ephemeral and insubstantial Comments at Boxes and Arrows
(_e. g._ flies and fleas) this union of the sexes results in the production of a _skolex_; while others have no parents, nor do they have congress -- such are the ephemera, tipula, and the like. Fathers of Biology
The trend in species richness throughout the two growing seasons sampled in this study was a decline in numbers of species from May through July as spring ephemerals senesced.
It was also the last of village France, with palpable limits, yet freedom from ephemeral diversions.
It is more than an emerald isle - it is an ephemeral one. Molly Keane's Ireland
Sport imbues the ephemeral and the silly and the transitory with great gravity, and it's a kind of consolation in a world that buckles beneath meaning and import and significance.
The majority of popular culture is commercially produced ephemera of mostly lamentable quality which needs absolutely no help or encouragement from government.
Its all ephemera and persiflage, as we sit mocking in the plumes as political gadflies who tell the truth.
Pizzetti is the artist who has rejected the volatile and ephemeral seductions of fashion and the servitude to others by preferring loyalty to himself.
She's out to capture the gigantic and ephemeral movements of weather, seasons and daylight.
Nonephemerals that bloom during the summer or fall are Canada lily, false hellebore, and species of aster, goldenrod, and sunflower.
With obviously far more extensive resources, the Getty has also put together an exhibition of ephemera under the title Greetings from L.A. Peter Clothier: One Saturday: Art/L.A.
The difficulty comes when ephemeral pieces and scripts for ancient programmes are dusted down and drawn together, unrevised and overlapping. The Times Literary Supplement
Always not quite there, within the poet's reach but not to be grasped, the ephemeral and transitory scenes open like views in a highly trafficked street, only to close again just as quickly.
We made the radical decision to intershelve periodicals, government documents, maps, and ephemera with the books in their subject areas.
It is not just artistic ephemera which suffer from metal fatigue in the heat of ubiquitous exposure.
It's cumbersomely long for an advertisement, but not long or substantial enough to satisfy as entertainment; still, it's an unusual bit of ephemera and offers a taste of the way the film was promoted.
In all, 277 lots comprising clothing, medals, trophies and ephemera spanning a century will go under the hammer at the sale.
Amongst other pop ephemera, the auction will be selling off rock stars' stage clothes.
The ephemerally flooded depressions are called vernal pools. Coastal Hills - Santa Rosa Plain
Why not take a detour to a garden in search of an ephemeral beauty or two? Times, Sunday Times
I mean what could you possibly win, apart from cash and the kind of frankly transitory and ephemeral applause of certain kinds?
Some believe these trends will prove ephemeral as M&S revives.
So, any ephemera from the creation of that story about cranky old Hagar comprise the literary world's version of splinters from the cross. CanLit
Talk about ephemera from the past … a recent eBay purchase arrived stored in this ancient looking plastic bag: 2008 February : Scrubbles.net
She festoons the table with elegant ephemera - the living room's silver-painted eucalyptus garland is repeated on the dining room's chandelier - and puts out a buffet of festive treats.
You can still interact with people, but those interactions are slight and superficial (in the on-the-surface sense) and ephemeral.
The nature of train drinking is an ephemeral pleasure. Times, Sunday Times
During high river discharges, overbank flows flooded extensive areas of the delta plain, creating swamps, coastal lakes and ephemeral channels.
There are magazines and posters and other ephemera scattered about.
The midge is an ephemeral 2-3 mm insect whose larva induces a gall on young unfurled S. viminalis leaves.
My personal favorite ephemeral artwork is chiyogami. Disinfotainment: Desktop Publishing in Japan 100 years ago
They are organized by season, and I find this clever and wonderfully suited: jam-making is really the art of canning an ephemeral moment of the year, to be enjoyed later when nostalgia strikes.
These drainages envelop the ephemeral wet surfaces and subterranean systems that rarely hold a diverse molluscan fauna.
Her process-based work incorporates ephemeral traces of domesticity with feminist art practice.
The quote places pop culture in context where every ephemeral moment is defined in time.
Debussy's supple rhythms and rich harmonic language, influenced in part by the ancient music of the Far East, became the ideal vehicle for painting a mood, no matter how complex or ephemeral.
Present plant communities are evidently ephemeral aggregations controlled by intersecting gradients of floral change.
Load up on cool ephemera and tacky souvenirs: NYPD snow domes, stick-on bullet holes, match books, carrier bags, free postcards, anything that says I heart NY.
Her success as a popular singer was ephemeral.
My flower is ephemeral, and she has only four thorns to defend herself against the world. And I have left on my planet, all alone!
The exhibition of his work at the Museum until 25 January includes Wedgwood mugs, plates and bowls, furniture, a pocket handkerchief, printed ephemera for famous shops, book illustrations and poster designs.
The writer aims to take those fleeting, ephemeral, sensual moments and transform them into something rich, coherent and meaningful.
But even that fleeting feeling, so ephemeral that you begin to doubt whether you really tasted its existence, is precious.
Note 19: One such workbook is that by Florence Loop, Graded Sewing Exercises, Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library. back "Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930
In today's market yesterday's playthings fetch serious prices and last year was a bumper year for toys and related ephemera.
There are over 1,000 plant species including 13 species of cacti - desert annuals referred to as ephemerals.
Bulbs have a very different life strategy from ephemeral weeds.
His hero worship of Jarvis, normally irritating, suddenly became the foundation relationship that others, more ephemeral, could rely upon. LET NOT THE DEEP
Taken individually, each object may have provoked some unsettling reactions and reverberations, but those were fleeting and ephemeral.
No pedestrian gestures to glaze the eye; no taped electronic ephemera to abrade the ear; no agendas to manipulate the sensibilities.
When your entire brand is built on the temporary, fleeting, and inevitably obsolete currency of youthful physical beauty, sexual allure, and cultural status, the word "ephemeral" comes to mind. Lorraine Devon Wilke: You're Not Keeping Up With The Kardashians Either
Ministers began to preach sermons against "Ephemera," and one, who too stoutly stood for much of its content, was expelled for heresy.
These traces of identity pass by the spectator in ephemeral moments, reflected, refracted, and distorted, as in a funnyhouse mirror.
Among the items on view are paintings, drawings, prints, posters, sculptures, zinc silhouettes and ephemera.
I did like the title though, very evocative , and a reminder of the ephemeral nature of nationalistic power and military might- c.f. hearts and minds? The Last Raider, by Douglas Reeman. Book review
Along with the ephemeral sakura, springtime in Japan also means the arrival of particular seasonal foods.
In the bearded iris hybrids, this pattern has been exploited and refined until the individual blossoms resemble ephemeral pieces of sculpture. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
Watercolor proves to be a compatible medium for the artist's purposes: the ephemeral effect of his pigments echoes the changeability of his study.
However ephemeral, they will find a way to alchemize their internalization of the event into a further manifestation, filtered through the particularity of individual consciousness.
TV executives, aware of the ephemeral frivolity of much of their product, may feel uneasy about their own high salaries. Times, Sunday Times
For example, spring ephemerals (plants that grow in the short period in spring before trees produce leaves and reduce the light) will only be found in early spring, and only if they can obtain enough light in the early spring.
Chinatown was like its host city -- small and compressed in physical dimensions, boundless and ephemeral in spirit.
Backstory at this (likely ephemeral) AP story Actor Freeman foots prom bill in Sundance doc. Discourse.net: All Deliberate Speed
The pictures reflect an interest in the ephemeral, impermanent, transient nature of the world.
Yet the sun was reflected, whitely, strangely, from myriad surfaces, as if the lush green of May was mostly moisture, and ephemeral. THE TATTOOED GIRL
He talked about the country's ephemeral unity being shattered by the defeat.
Yet for all that, Mr. Inglis is more even-handed than many of his colleagues, and sager too, able to see beyond the ephemera of the moment to take a more expansive view. Intensely Familiar, Yet Strangely Remote
The pictures reflect an interest in the ephemeral, impermanent, transient nature of the world.
In the wake of photography, the scrapbook, the flower album, the signature album - all those vehicles for collecting and displaying the ephemera of a lifetime - flourished.
We're told that pitiful few of the original records, sleeves, and promotional ephemera still exist.
The spring ephemerals were abundant; he could see primroses, violets, lungwort, and even the delicate blue forget-me-nots as he approached the wetland.
Without a camera to imply documentation or recording, these beautiful, often eerie works become ephemeral. Times, Sunday Times
Wildflowers that grow beneath the canopy include so-called spring ephemerals - plants that usually come up in early April, bloom no later than the end of May, set seeds in May or June, and disappear by July.
The story couldn't be convincingly told if there wasn't a convincing constructed context where there are constants, ephemera, characters, events, themes, boundaries, and plot.
We enfeeble ourselves clinging to transient, ephemeral material things and relationships.
Between the offbeat strum, subterranean bass and rock-steady drumming, they leave gaps that other bands would nervously clutter with ephemera.
Drawings and ephemera throughout the room make it a veritable collector's cabinet of curiosities.
Ask them who their heroes are and they will all be ephemeral figures - stars of sport and pop music.
Hopes of political unity in the region have proved ephemeral.
A subtle meditation on mortality, it contrasts the ephemeral beauty of a young girl absorbed in her posy of flowers with the aged horse who quietly contemplates the viewer.
The repetition of the word century, instead of evoking diachrony, only further betrays the precarious instantaneity of the utterance, its vocalic ephemerality.
It is a mystic power not of the world of material facts, a divine gift in compensation for our ephemeral life.
Strawberry-rhubarb strudel and strawberry-pistachio semifreddo are way too ephemeral, hazelnut dome too pallid, the house fancy cake too fancy.
A lot of what makes weblogs interesting is their personal, ephemeral, and informal nature.
I spent the evening going through the box, which is a replica of the thousands of boxes of souvenirs and ephemera he compulsively saved.
It might be set down as an axiomatic statement that no large publishing house in this country could possibly live exclusively from what are known as miscellaneous books, by which is meant current fiction and other ephemeral publications. The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing
Should we really assume that all people everywhere want to collect digital ephemera and log their lives as they go by?
The disconnect between his robust frame and sickly music mirrors the tension in the songs themselves, between quivering ephemera and hulking clangor.
They represent the bulk of total investment returns because capital gains so often prove ephemeral. Times, Sunday Times
Consisting principally of the artist's photographs of his performances and ‘cut’ buildings in their before and after states, along with conceptual drawings, notes and ephemera, it relies entirely on the power of our imagination.
Seasonal changes in understory species from spring ephemerals to evergreen herbs are discussed in a number of contexts throughout the book.
But the desire for all this ephemeral and disposable tat could be avoided, claim the critics, by curtailing or even banning advertising aimed directly at children.
Gaze in awe at the massive autographed poster above the dining room table, the authentic concert costumes, the pins and shirts and ephemera carefully arrayed throughout the house.
The disconnect between his robust frame and sickly music mirrors the tension in the songs themselves, between quivering ephemera and hulking clangor.
Given that Haslam has played and improvised enough characters to populate a small city, is there some quality that unites the less ephemeral ones?
Matthias said beauty - being ephemeral, evanescent and impermanent - reminds us of death.
The end of the twentieth century also brought evidences of decline, marked by ephemera, bombastic spectacle, revivals from better times, and periodic infusions of life from Europe and England.
A former design student turned artist, Yolacan spoofs the fashion industry and its obsession with youth and ephemerality - but gently.
Ephemeral stream channels are organized hierarchically on the bajada slopes from the mountains to the valley bottoms.
Coriander is an ephemeral plant which only lasts two to three months, so you need to regularly plant new coriander in your herb garden.
Trends are ephemeral, fleeting: by the time you've identified something, it's gone, or changed out of all recognition.
In northern Utah, Osmia lignaria propinqua emerge beginning in late April, coincident with the flowering of spring ephemeral herbs and shrubs.
Conversation, on the other hand, is ephemeral, unreplicable, unsearchable, and your audience is known, often right in your field of vision. Claire Gordon: A Conversation With Your Cellphone
I've always liked to work with concrete material because dance is very ephemeral.
The writer aims to take those fleeting, ephemeral, sensual moments and transform them into something rich, coherent and meaningful.
Refinancing: A renegotiation of terms that occurs when you and the bank decide that the original agreement, while originally structured to be a long-term ironclad contract, is in fact as ephemeral and inconsequential as a Britney Spears marriage. Vortex Media Group
His real achievement, though, is effortlessly synthesizing a dizzying array of dissonant phenomena (Cold War espionage, ecstatic religiosity), incongruous pairings (Darwinism, Tantric sex), and otherwise schizy ephemera (psychedelic drugs, spaceflight) into a cogent, satisfyingly complete narrative. Cover to Cover
the ephemeral joys of childhood
The site is described as a comprehensive collection of newpaper articles, cemetery ledgers, photos, personal correspondence, obituaries and other ephemera from the Woodgate/White Lake area. Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Woodgate Digitization Project
A collection of beliefs and prejudices, tricks of the trade, fieldcraft, and frontier field doctrine was wholly vocational and often quite ephemeral.
It is filled with his antiques, paintings, books and York ephemera, and resembles a private museum.
From the outside, it seems a rootless, ephemeral sort of existence, evocative of the chummy, locker-room familiarity that was a hangover from playing days.
No dictionary can really capture something as fleeting and ephemeral as slang.
He roams the continents, freezing those ephemeral moments of life.
The human skull is familiar from the tradition of vanitas paintings where it serves to indicate the futility of human aspirations by stressing the ephemerality of human life.
It is, one might say, a necessary monster, not some ephemeral and casual creature like the chimaera or the catoblepas. Archive 2008-12-01
The May-flies must surely be the lotus-eaters of the ephemerae — the happiest, laziest, carelessest fly that dances and dreams out his few hours of sunshiny life by English rivers. Tom Brown's Schooldays
Wisdom sees the impermanent, ephemeral nature of experience and the basic unreliability of these changing phenomena.
I may post storage-closet ephemera the rest of the week, just for fun.
-- OED ochlophobic ephemera: ABC & EP on abortion, seminaries, the thoughts of the dead, usual ochlophobic topics ... this opinion piece by ABC Williams does not articulate what I would consider by any means a sufficiently strong and clear stand against abortion, it strikes me as closer to a pro-life position than anything I have heard from the Ecumenical Patriarch on the issue, and strikes me as a more coherent position than the one articulated by +Bartholomew which was noted in Nearly identical in tone and spirit [to a statement made by an Armenian bishop], and lack of any clear, prophetic teaching are statements made by His Holiness, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople when he visited San Francisco in 1990 as the metropolitan of Chalcedon as part of the entourage of the then Patriarch Dimitrios of blessed memory. The Ochlophobist
The science and technology of printed ephemera covers three components: paper, ink, and a method of transferring ink to paper in order to reproduce an original.
In some deserts, salty flats or ephemeral lakes or playas with marginal sabkhas occur.
In effect, therefore, each participant was left to decide whether ‘snapshot’ constituted a category of one's own camera activity, a variety of keepsake, or a genre of collectible ephemera.
They continue to live together, she in the company of ephemeral lovers, and he in a simmering cauldron of internalized anger.
Amongst other pop ephemera, the auction will be selling off rock stars' stage clothes.
These are often ephemeral, so they need to grow legs and crawl landward as quickly as possible. Times, Sunday Times
There is a descending order of seriousness from the permanent to the ephemeral, and an order of conspicuousness running in the opposite direction.
My flower is ephemeral, and she has only four thorns to defend herself against the world. And I have left on my planet, all alone!
This newspaper does not lack ephemeral junk articles.
Wiener has analysed nearly every recorded case of male-on-female violence in the nineteenth century, drawing his data from court records, government records in the home office papers, law reports, newspapers, and printed ephemera.
I mean what could you possibly win, apart from cash and the kind of frankly transitory and ephemeral applause of certain kinds?
Unlike magazines and books, newspapers feel more ephemeral and throwaway, but they carry their own weight because of their reach.
Battered of nose, flat of mouth, there was both a roughness and an ephemeral quality about him, like a moth made from unmilled lumber. Villa Incognito
Other ephemeral lakes develop in volcanic craters or collapsed caldera systems.
For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral in transit?
My flower is ephemeral, and she has only four thorns to defend herself against the world. And I have left on my planet, all alone!
Her disdain is getting personal, her subject matter less ephemeral, as she scolds rich Americans driven by wanderlust and entitlement.
In a more general sense, the painting offers a meditation on the eternal and the ephemeral.
Not only that, but there will also be a selection of etchings, illustrations, ephemera and maps on many of the stands.
Theoretically, it is possible that if we ever reach a point where no one handwrites anymore, handwritten historical documents and ephemera will no longer be readable by the average person. So Many Books
Much spunkiness is ephemeral, like slang or pop that goes from cool to cringey in a nanosecond. 2008 May 16 « Exile on Ninth Street
Tamaranth's Non-Ephemera things mean a lot tuesday in silhouette 42. The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson
The climate was cooler than today but warmer than a full glacial, with sand and silt forming in shallow, flowing water in the form of sheet-wash or in ephemeral channels.
They were part of our lifetime, and their ephemera exists, pristine and whole, not yet chipped or broken, faulty with age, and to me, they are proof positive that monsters are real.
The ephemeral nature of Emmanuel's installation, which acts as a memorial, made a striking contrast with the 1970s monolithic Monument.
As an ephemera collector from way back, I am particular vexed by the suggestion that history holds negligible value in a culture dominated by technological excess.
And we know the usual fate of such ephemera: consignment to the bottomless circular file below the desk.
The show included posters, sculptures, games, books, pamphlets, toys, decorative items and ephemera produced in many of the warring nations during the two world conflicts of the 20th century.
My flower is ephemeral, and she has only four thorns to defend herself against the world. And I have left on my planet[Sentence dictionary], all alone!
Their location and arrangement agree closely with Bloodwing's estimates for ephemerae of Levaeri V and its primary. My Enemy My Ally
Anglo-American geomorphologists tend to the view that pediments are the result of either lateral planation by ephemeral, migrating streams issuing from bordering mountains, or sheet-flood erosion.
Too much online information is ephemeral - so we end up emailing things to ourselves, copy and pasting into new documents and losing context.
Finally, sensitive always that some nervous nelly might be reading his piece, he reassures readers that "I also suspect the fallout would be far less damaging and more ephemeral than many might suggest. Barry Eisler: The Definition of Insanity
Goodwill can permit effective cooperation for purchasing of secondary care but goodwill is ephemeral when difficult decisions have to be made.
They pass into a fixed and immovable state, and mostly into one as enduring as adamant; while colloidal or albuminoid matter (laboratory protoplasm) takes on no fixed forms -- only those that are ephemeral, merely transitory. Life: Its True Genesis
In my mind an e-book was little more than a species of niche electronic ephemera designed to sit within a tiny ecosystem of highly-tech-friendly but not particularly tech-savvy over-monied poseurs.
I remembered my own impulse to screenshot a page from a set of ephemeral Google results, which can change at any time.
The ephemera gallery is a self-navigated tour through vintage still photographs - many of which were used in the film - and images of vintage posters and playbills, including some from different countries.
Fame in the world of rock and pop is largely ephemeral.
He grouped species into ephemeral, aestival, and evergreen.
Yellow gopher (suslik) is characteristic of the clay desert and feeds on the ephemeral plants. Central Asian northern desert
The man was not a fantaisiste or romanticist at all – he did not even try to give us the churning, prismatic ephemera of dreams, but coldly and sardonically reflected some stable, mechanistic, and well – established horror – world which he saw fully, brilliantly, squarely, and unfalteringly. Illustrating The Unseen « Become A Robot
The Fair lays claim to being Britain's largest antiquarian book fair with over 200 leading booksellers specialising in antiquarian and secondhand books, maps, prints and ephemera.
This show of some 165 prints and related ephemera is the first in-depth assessment of the artist's work.
Philippe Parreno, tracks the great French-Algerian soccer player The Exorcist - served to monumentalize ephemeral moments. GreenCine Daily
A few years later, it made timid and ephemeral attempts to pursue a progressive social policy.
Within the bodies of brackish or salt water, an ephemeral microflora and fauna (indicated by rare acritarchs and microforam linings) developed.
Thursday, March 26 2009 iPhone is a nice phone to be sure but I have seen odd issues with the AT&T data network including inability to hit the internet on Friday afternoons in Sunnyvale, CA as well as odd stuff on the East Coast with APNs not seeming to like internet traffic on ephemeral ports like 8080 while the West Coast seems to have little problem with such. Poll: Friends Don’t Let Friends Buy AT&T’s iPhone
Ephemera - postcards, letters on onionskin foolscap, newspaper clippings - are tucked into the pages and offer narrative clues. Times, Sunday Times
However, for accurate abundance information to be presented, sampling for spring ephemerals in forested communities should be conducted before overstory tree leafout.
Aye, but here's the rub: minorities are the ephemeral whim of kismet.
The implicit immediacy and ephemerality of "post" and "update," the deeply embedded assumption of referentiality (linkage being part of the point of blogging), not to mention a new of-the-moment ethos among so many of the bloggers (especially the younger ones) favors a less formal, less linear, and essentially unedited mode of argument. Book Reviewing
Exploiting basic structural concepts of triangulation and curvilinearity in order to produce an inherently rigid, yet dynamic form, the light, ephemeral pavilion sits serenely above a small pool.
Another specialist in ephemera of this kind and scenography was Baccio del Bianco, whose extraordinary caricatures, for which he was particularly celebrated, are an early form of the cartoon strip.
This was his first thought, instinctive and unbidden, as he rode a spotless motoscafo across the lagoon toward a city that seemed to rest not on bedrock and silt but on nothing less ephemeral than dreams. The Kaisho
However, the spring ephemerals and plants that flower during the spring are often difficult to identify when flowers are not present, and cannot reliably be identified late in the growing season.
Deceptively mundane, the stores are ephemeral polling and pollinating organs, transient fruit-bodies of information.
Not only that, but there will also be a selection of etchings, illustrations, ephemera and maps on many of the stands.
The chamber permitted particles to be tracked with a precision of better than 1mm, as a result of which several novel ephemeral subatomic particles have been discovered, such as the tau-lepton – a heavy version of the electron – and exotic varieties of quarks. Georges Charpak obituary
I was a contradiction, a quasi-immortal masquerading as one of the ephemera who had saved me from their own short-lived lot.
How, then, with that kind of history, do you think the government will fare attempting to prevent the flow of something so ephemeral is “electronic bits” around the world? The Volokh Conspiracy » Outrageous Treaty Nonsense, or The Copyright Tail Wagging the Internet Dog
Reduced competition for pollinators may be one advantage of early flowering, but for many of these spring ephemerals, time is the most pressing issue.
In the bearded iris hybrids, this pattern has been exploited and refined until the individual blossoms resemble ephemeral pieces of sculpture. A Patchwork Garden: Unexpected Pleasures from a Country Garden
It is as if the poet, or poetry itself, is spying on our ephemeral existence. Times, Sunday Times
Leaving aside Levine’s unintentionally amusing academic dutifulness —” I have been able to view this episode of the Match Game, along with many others, in syndicated repeats on the Game Show Network” — the book does map genuine cultural change and find meaning in an ephemeral medium that, despite its pervasiveness, is too often regarded as unfit for serious study. Cover to Cover
They all began with earnest monologues about education, but before long they were each struggling with crowd control and the ephemeral donkey work nobody told them about. Times, Sunday Times
Belief is an ephemeral and passive condition, based on submission to the prestidigitator through the suspension of reason, often in the face of obvious evidence of an opposite intention, rather like the empty, impotent vessel of its relative, hope. The Crystal Ball(s)
It began as a vaguely naturalistic sprinkling of spring ephemerals among the ferns, blueberries, tupelos, oaks, and white pines spontaneously flourishing on abandoned farmland.
Featuring 140 posters, prints, book designs and political and commercial ephemera, it also showcases original layouts and photo-montages by the Italian futurists, the German and French dadaists and the Dutch de Stijl group.
Each ‘portrait’ is filled with references to the relevant artist's work, but he also draws on such biographical ephemera as anecdotes and photographs.
Therefore, we accept life and death as part of this ephemeral and transient cycle.
In autumn, amaryllid bulbs of Brunsvigia and Haemanthus produce brilliant blooms, while in spring the space between the showy perennial shrubs is ablaze with flowering ephemerals. Succulent Karoo

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