How To Use Fleeting In A Sentence

Aides hovered round like royal courtiers before he made a fleeting appearance climbing on board the City of Chicago. Times, Sunday Times
For him, life really was a series of fleeting moments. Times, Sunday Times
The girls caught only a fleeting glimpse of the driver.
I remember only fleeting moments. Times, Sunday Times
Patches of pale blue appeared fleetingly, punch holes of sanity beneath the roiling storm clouds. Mercy Kill

You only consider the hounds as a fleeting object at which to ride; the fox as a necessary evil, without which all this 'rasping' and 'bruising' and 'cutting down,' as you call it in your ridiculous jargon, cannot be attained. Kate Coventry An Autobiography
I reminisce for a fleeting moment about breezy Saturday nights, black couches and a brawny shoulder
SARAH PALIN, (R) ALASKA: When my amniocentesis results came back showing what they called abnormalities, oh, dear God, I knew I had instantly an understanding for that fleeting moment why someone would believe it could seem possible to change those circumstances, just make it all go away and get some normalcy back in life. CNN Transcript Apr 17, 2009
Poluski's quip; but that fleeting glimpse had thrilled her with subtle recognition of something grasped yet elusive, of a knowledge that trembled on the lip of discovery, like a half remembered word murmuring in the brain but unable to make itself heard. A Son of the Immortals
The trio's third movement is a scherzo, full of fleeting and magical tunes very reminiscent of the Midsummer's Night Dream overture, a piece that Mendelssohn wrote when he was just 17.
Thanks to better quality lenses, longer battery life and dirt cheap memory cards, your cellphone is a convenient tool for capturing life's fleeting moments with the push of a button. Tips on shooting cellphone video
So what does an actor of MacLachlan's calibre do to reach the A-list - even if it's just for a fleeting moment?
Yet inserting a cheeky clause had fleetingly crossed his mind. Times, Sunday Times
Life is short and time is fleeting.
Moreover, Brazil represented a restoration of the comfort she had experienced only fleetingly as a child.
We know from experience that beauty is fleeting. Christianity Today
The trio's third movement is a scherzo, full of fleeting and magical tunes very reminiscent of the Midsummer's Night Dream overture, a piece that Mendelssohn wrote when he was just 17.
There is fleeting footage of everyone from Nick Cave to New Order, but one critic dismissed it as a structureless muddle.
If she manages it again today then expect to see a huge, but fleeting, smile. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, the name game is just one aspect of the melancholy fact expressed by the cliche ‘fame is fleeting.’
I feel a flush of glee at having called out the president on national television, but the sensation is fleeting.
It tastes sweet, light, lilting, rich - it tastes like I imagine one of those sunbeams breaking through clouds might taste, fleeting and rare.
So the only thing that surprised when he was asked if he would take a draw and a replay at Ibrox, was the fact that he swithered, albeit fleetingly, before deciding against it.
He seldom went to the ground, and when he did it was usually a fleeting visit. Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough
Russell said that he and European auction company executive Henry Beeby, who is SITA's chairman, had discussed the confusion over the new guidelines "fleetingly" and that it probably would be addressed during SITA's next meeting, which is scheduled for November. Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com
I reminisce for a fleeting moment about breezy Saturday nights, meaningful movies, black cozy couches and the comfort of a brawny shoulder to rest on.
Suddenly, she saw a rapid, fleeting movement in the row of trees in their right.
Look at its Corot-esque, grey tonality and its fleeting brushwork.
These paintings depicted the fleeting moments, transitory effects of atmosphere.
The boatswain, climbing up with marlinspikes and bunches of spunyarn rovings, or kneeling on the yard and ready to take a turn with the midship-stop, had acute and fleeting visions of his old woman and the youngsters in a moorland village. The Nigger of the Narcissus
Was it acceptable not to change them if the visit had been fleeting? Times, Sunday Times
He gave another fleeting smile. Times, Sunday Times
But the mirth is fleeting and the hysterical laughter, I suspect, is triggered more by nervous tension than by a wicked sense of humour.
As the saying goes, form is temporary and class is something rather less fleeting. Times, Sunday Times
At that same meeting, the Queen took Burrell into her confidence—if only fleetingly. William and Kate
To me this children's-song and the fleeting and now plaintive echo of it, as "Voices from Within" -- "_Verso la sera, Di Primavera_" -- in the terrible scene where Strafford learns his doom, is only to be paralleled by the song of Mariana in "Measure for Measure," wherein, likewise, is abduced in one thrilling poignant strain the quintessential part of the tense life of the whole play. Life of Robert Browning
I follow these fleeting figures and shapes down a dimly lit hallway, to a room nondescriptly marked "4".
When we relate this reverence to our experience of the sublime, we have a sense, however fleeting, of the transcendental.
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
As food historian Andrew F. Smith shows in "Potato: A Global History" Reaktion, 142 pages, $15.95 , even the lowly spud packs a lot of colorful history, including a fleeting aphrodisiacal reputation: It was described by one 16th-century British writer as a lust-enhancing "venerous root. Single Servings
People possessed of common sense have always known that human rationality is, at best, a fleeting phenomenon. Times, Sunday Times
I had the impression - fleeting, I grant you - that the photo had come from one of the pockets.
The stuff of impressionist painting had been the fleeting glimpse of Ia vie moderne rather than the solid statue.
It demonstrated the artist's skill in rendering the fleeting moment in which sharp pain is reflected in the boy's expression, as in a snapshot.
You only get fleeting glimpses of his glory. Christianity Today
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.
A face has no character unless it moves, and the fleeting emotions animate the ingrained ones, the battle-damage - lines, bags, wrinkles.
December 20th, 2008 at 2: 01 pm indeed. an overwrought review of a sonic youth album for Ego Trip was the crowing achievement of my fleeting career in music criticism. noah callahan-bever – mid 90s berkeley carroll school represent! Ego Trip | ATTACKERMAN
Now I don't exactly mind shops, and I'll visit clothes shops or cookery shops on those fleeting days when all the money hasn't evaporated from our bank account.
Trees remind us that the human lifespan is a fleeting thing. Times, Sunday Times
It's a film that measures the weight of a calm hand on a nervous one, the size of a fleeting glance, a gentle touch and its role amidst the imponderable power plays of sexual vulnerability.
I am thankful for fear's fleeting nature, yet still inthralled by it's presence when it is here. Tales of an Alderwoman: Living with fear
Was it acceptable not to change them if the visit had been fleeting? Times, Sunday Times
Instead we can only hope that the odd fleeting moment of inspiration surfaces on what is destined to be an increasingly irrelevant continuance.
His smirk turned into a smile, for the briefest of fleeting moments, before he rose from the table, and walked away.
Taken individually, each object may have provoked some unsettling reactions and reverberations, but those were fleeting and ephemeral.
As I see it, in Occitan trad music we can catch fleeting glimpses of extreme melodies, and the power of song demonstrated in this music carries a far greater weight than in other musics.
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
For a fleeting moment last year, England appeared to have cracked it. Times, Sunday Times
They open up opportunities for fleeting or chance meetings.
For a few minutes, no not minutes, hope was only there for a fleeting moment or two, but for that brief instance she'd believed it.
Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique.
'Who was that?' asked my mother unsuspiciously, watching through the window as the fleeting back view of cropped light brown hair, loose jacket, rolled up jeans and too-big trainers made a fast sloppy shuffle out of sight. They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff
Yesterday the five-member commission unanimously declared that, fleeting or not, and in whatever context, the word was a vulgarity and as a result a violation.
Still, such people are base indeed; they fornicate against thee, for they love the transitory mockeries of temporal things and the filthy gain which begrimes the hand that grabs it; they embrace the fleeting world and scorn thee, who abidest and invitest us to return to thee and who pardonest the prostituted human soul when it does return to thee. Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
The germ of divisiveness was planted many years ago way back in 1939, and unity of the movement has only come in fleetingly short spurts since then.
But beyond that, in the grounds I get a fleeting glimpse of what appears to be a parking lot for buses.
It will be interesting to see how the government 's statisticians cope with the amorphous, paradoxical and fleeting phenomenon that goes under the name of happiness. Times, Sunday Times
He knows, though, that such unbridled joy is fleeting. Times, Sunday Times
Until I dived off the beach at Criccieth in north Wales, I had never seen more than a fleeting glimpse of a lesser weever, the most common venomous fish around Britain.
At such moments I became fleetingly aware of a great pool of lore that banjo players took for granted. Christianity Today
For one fleeting moment the world has acted together in defiance of the group, whose isolation is now exposed for all to see.
With haste, this shadow rode, a fleeting figure among the stable, unmoving objects of nature, the trees and bushes.
The muhly is a fleeting asset though, and the shrubs can be moved later if a better companion for the grass reveals itself on sale. Enigmatic Prose « Fairegarden
Paul caught a brief, fleeting glimpse of the computer screen.
But then she explained that she was moved by the way it captured the fleeting and undocumentable. Anna Jane Grossman: Are Obituaries Obsolete?
You may get a fleeting glimpse that all is not well with his mother but it all seems quite jolly. The Sun
So the hallucinatory conversations went on, seldom elevated above this chatty level, and when they were, only fleetingly so. GALILEE
Katherine of Aragon does not appear in the film, but Vanessa Redgrave makes a fleeting, non-speaking appearance as an incredibly authentic-looking and flirtatious Anne Boleyn.
It is as if the word described the inner 'resource' of God, that which grounds and informs God's substantial, objective presence, a presence which is fleetingly uncovered in theophanies in the Hebrew Scriptures but whose full manifestation in the world awaits the last days. Addresses given to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Archbishop Michael Ramsey: I. Theology in the Face of Christ
This much she saw, and more, when the slant-eyed servant led the way past another room -- of which she caught a fleeting glance -- and into a third, both of which dimmed the brave show of the entrance hall. THE STORY OF JEES UCK
You get only fleeting glimpses of the action and you are surrounded by people becoming progressively more drunk.
Giving a fleeting look at his mother in the car, he turned and walked towards the dorms.
Like a melting snowflake, the perfectly ripe pear is a fleeting thing. Tender delights
The growth of electronics and communication mediated by computers has given rise to great numbers of coinages, many of them fleeting, all seeking to describe the adaptation of such techniques to some aspect of daily life.
The hungry chorus of affirmation as Alexey appears to have beaten the casino and the system is sung to a kind of robotically synchronised Charleston, a fleeting moment of euphoria before the inevitable crash. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
But then, of course, those brief moments of revelation were fleeting.
Panting, I fleetingly envied a couple being carried on litters like lords, an expensive yet terrifying (what if a porter slipped?) option.
You only get fleeting glimpses of his glory. Christianity Today
I mean propositions in which the nature in question is found in any concrete body to be fleeting and movable, that is to say accruing or acquired, or on the other hand departing or put away. The New Organon
In a later essay in 1980, I noted the major role of fortuity in civil rights gains and why those gains tended to be fleeting even when enunciated in terms of permanence.
Birders and hunters higher up the flyway catch only fleeting glimpses of some species, especially when early, bitter northers expedite the migratory process.
My surge of elation was fleeting; I knew it was too good to be true.
Fleetingly melodic throughout, the final magic ingredient is the vocals of Annette Berlin.
Noted plant geek and recently appointed Director of Horticulture, Scott Vergara will lead you through slides and a garden tour into their world, and you'll discover great garden-hardy ‘scroph’ specimens: weird snapdragons, beautiful beardtongues, parasitic plants, the rare, the fleeting, and the much-to-be-desired.
How fleeting and fickle is the national zeitgeist eh?
In short, knowing how transitory life is, let us seize the fleeting, refulgent moment.
Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique.
Last Monday, however, England's highest peaks were obscured by mist, though further along the skyline fleeting sunbeams spotlit the Eskdale Needle. Country diary: Border End
But a phrase delivered by George C. Scott in my favorite movie, Patton, is one I’ve remembered since I first heard it at the age of thirteen: “Glory is fleeting.” Rescuing Sprite
For one fleeting moment , Paula allowed herself to forget her troubles.
Joe looked up and for a fleeting moment Adam saw something flit across his eyes.
The dim light makes the figures in the background literally hard to see, as if they were fleeting traces of memory, just beyond the viewer's grasp.
As the saying goes, form is temporary and class is something rather less fleeting. Times, Sunday Times
Testino's trademark is the intimacy he attains with his subject and his ability to embody the spirit of the fleeting moment.
But all exertion is disagreeable; one feels content to sit and compose chapters of novels in one's whirling brain, without attempting to commit the fleeting kaleidoscopic images to paper. Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago
The Eight Pieces for Four Timpani, for example, of which four were performed — "Saeta" and "Canaries" are both early (1949) experiments in simultaneous tempi and metric modulation, and, with their predominantly triplet -, eighth -, and dotted-eighth-note vocabulary, there are fleeting audible glimpses of Reichian phase-shifting. Magna Carter (7): Either/Or
My brain was so fogged, my memory so poor and my concentration so fleeting that it would take me the entire morning to eke out a paragraph.
The text is dense, yet accessible to someone with only a fleeting knowledge of Greek myths.
But it was a fleeting glimpse, for at that moment she felt a stirring in the air around her.
Yet the singer grew up watching what those did to her divorced parents, and has since seen her brother grappling with the vicissitudes of celebrity and fleeting chart success.
Their interest sprung from the hope that in this ever-shrinking world, our diversity could be a source of strength, a cause for celebration; and that with sustained work and determination, we could learn to live and prosper together during the fleeting moment we share on this Earth. Sports
A tsunami of publicity has swept him off his feet and now he has become fleetingly notorious, courted until the interest fades.
In the fleeting glimpse he caught of it, Smoke wondered if he had ever seen a Dore grotesquery to compare. THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE
By claiming power under the coinage clause, Mr. Bernanke was behaving a bit like Secretary of State Alexander Haig when, after President Ronald Reagan was shot, he suggested, albeit fleetingly, that he had the constitutional authority of the president. A Constitution Scholar for the Fed
I wondered fleetingly if he was still the king of the great unwashed. TIME OF THE WOLF
It used to be translated as “vanity of vanities,” a beautifully resonant phrase, but one that misrepresents somewhat the Hebrew word hebel, which does not mean “vanity” in our sense, but rather anything fleeting and insubstantial, hence also, sometimes, ungraspable. In the Valley of the Shadow
Trends are ephemeral, fleeting: by the time you've identified something, it's gone, or changed out of all recognition.
Long, wet waits for fleeting glimpses of the benign beast were uncomfortable and boring. Times, Sunday Times
Beneath the endless diversity of the universe, of existence and action, there must be a principle of unity; below all fleeting appearances there must be a permanent substance; beyond this everlasting flow and change, this beginning and ending of finite existence, there must be an _eternal being_, the source and cause of all we see and know, _What is that principle of unity, that permanent substance_, or principle, or being? Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles
A man in a black overcoat fleetingly appears throughout the play.
They wanted intimacy, and chemsex provided a kind of intense, fleeting, synthesised version of that. Times, Sunday Times
Precisely because the scene is so fleeting, in an otherwise thoroughly even and respectful documentary of a group entity, it feels boldfaced.
The writer aims to take those fleeting, ephemeral, sensual moments and transform them into something rich, coherent and meaningful.
Another former darling of the fleetingly fashionable green technology industry teetered on the edge of collapse yesterday. Times, Sunday Times
Carrick stared at the wizard, face softening, and for a fleeting moment, he was not unhandsome.
A magnetic attraction might be fleeting, but it could be worth exploring.
Trees remind us that the human lifespan is a fleeting thing. Times, Sunday Times
He dummied the pass - another fleeting instant of uncertainty - and darted into the area. Times, Sunday Times
A fleeting video image of a woman dressed in white and moving through moonlit trees cast a spell of love and mystery.
Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.
When you go to work, or visit a park, it is possible that you will have a range of unexpected encounters, however fleeting or seemingly inconsequential.
But, as fleeting as Picasso's involvement had been, Gauguin's example was formative, perhaps because it was so freighted with cultural significance.
I wondered fleetingly why she was here alone.
Surprisingly, they make only fleeting appearances in this engrossing, very candid book. The Sun
As 2009 comes to a close and the stories about his "infidelities" fade, Tiger Woods is learning the hard way that extramarital affairs may be fleeting but the digital fingerprints they leave are indelible. Eric Gertler: Yes, We Can ... Learn From Tiger's Digital Dalliances
We hope they will have the farsightedness to see past the exuberant accolades that are fleetingly bestowed upon them.
No dictionary can really capture something as fleeting and ephemeral as slang.
Dousing her face and neck, she gazed for a fleeting moment into the water, her thoughts momentarily blank.
One of these specimens of fleeting friendship was one-eyed, and a diseased hip rendered it difficult for him to keep pace with us; one was club-footed, one hair-lipped fellow had only half a nose, and they were nearly all goitrous. Across China on Foot
Additional complaints included increased fatigue during the month preceding presentation and fleeting diplopia over the previous 2 weeks that was not gaze dependent.
They ignore fleeting trends and focus on crafting elegant, standout pieces that last. Times, Sunday Times
The disorder of the gathering, manifest in the unready table as well as in the uncertain alliance among its members, resonates with the fleeting image of a bodhisattva that is unacknowledged and unseen.
She loved him as true women love, with that sublime self-sacrifice which only desires the happiness of the thing beloved; yet a kind of insensate rage stirred for once in her gentle soul to think that the mere sight of a strange woman with dark eyes, -- a woman whom no one knew anything about, and who was by some people deemed a mere adventuress, -- should have so overwhelmed this man whose genius she had deemed superior to fleeting impressions. Ziska
We all know what anger is, and we've all felt it: whether as a fleeting annoyance or as full-fledged rage.
Fleeting has twice already suffered rejections from the present board of directors amid allegations of sectarianism.
It is in those unique dialogues, in those brief and fleeting moments, that we express ourselves and share our unique inner lives with others.
For him, life really was a series of fleeting moments. Times, Sunday Times
Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.
Sitting up for a fleeting moment, he took a quick gulp from the glass.
Who gave me love placid who accompany me to see through the fleeting landscape.
An echo rang off the cold metal of the hull, passing fleetingly, as if it had been the mutter of a ghost dead long ago. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » The Five Page Challenge!
You may get a fleeting glimpse that all is not well with his mother but it all seems quite jolly. The Sun
He sensed and heard men close about him, saw a dim masked figure in the starlight before him; then his sword crunched home, and he was fleeting away down the alley before the slower-thinking and slower-acting attackers could intercept him. The Bloody Crown of Conan
The album begins very quietly, with a careful dialogue between piano and percussion, the bandleader establishing his preference for fleeting cymbal caresses and detailed woodblock clusters.
Kat - yep, you get fleeting glimpses of them ... and as Christine said, Lilith is very ... Demon Night - Meljean Brook
He once said that the vanity of existence is revealed in the form that existence assumes: in the infiniteness of time and space contrasted with the finiteness of the individual in both; in the fleeting present as the sole form in which actuality exists; in the contingency and relativity of all things; in continual becoming without being; in continual desire without satisfaction; in the continual frustration of striving of which life consists. Chuck Klosterman on Living and Society
There would be a fleeting glimpse of the three men flinging water in frantic haste, when she would topple over and fall into the yawning valley, bow down and showing her full inside length to the stern upreared almost directly above the bow. Chapter 17
But in today's secular society, Mr. Davies says, such an awareness no longer exists: The young, ignorant of history, enjoy a false sense of permanence, while our historians are too specialized to appreciate the ultimately fleeting nature of all that man contrives. Sovereignty and the Pitiless Passage of Time
Far from merely privileging a phenomenology intent on capturing the object's fleeting and independent existence, these poems conceive the object as the intersection of natural and social relations, which give it its identity.
In periods of capitalist decline the crises are of prolonged character while the booms are fleeting, superficial and speculative.
They looked unpremeditated, as though they were spontaneous, rapidly executed records of fleeting perceptions-like impressions, translated into a shorthand language of stroke and color.
As she had fleetingly considered remaining in the Corvi shell. The ship who sang
It means that when they do cast politics a fleeting glance that moment will supply their reasoning. Times, Sunday Times
A fleeting surge of pride filled her for a second, but it was quickly displaced by disappointment.
The eternal buttresses of the hills stand to the eyes of the fleeting generations as emblems of permanence, and yet winter storms and summer heats, and the slow processes of decay which we call the gnawing of time, are ever working upon them, and changing their forms, and at last they shall pass. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
temporal matters of but fleeting moment
She has become sad and embarrassing and over in some way, a reminder that glamour and allure are as fleeting and elusive as the British summer. Times, Sunday Times
When the storm rolls in, just sit down with someone you love, and watch, and think about how beautiful the sky and water can be, when they go dark, and about how that darkness, that rolling greyness, is always only fleeting. Weathering The Storm | Her Bad Mother
It is so irksomely soundtracked; fleeting glimpses of billions of songs, designed to be familiar to the viewers who know them and inspire emotion in those who don't, but in verse-long, rather than song-long chunks.
Society is a tissue of pretense: convention a fleeting fantom. Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information
The moment when the floods might fleetingly have seemed exciting is now long gone.
A rifle cracked behind Swift and for one fleeting moment he thought he was dead, he lay still waiting for the pain.
Billed as a comedy, The Green Butchers certainly squeezes a few audible laughs from you, but mostly the humour is the aftertaste of the film's overarching absurdity, dry and fleeting.
He concluded that she had somehow fleetingly lost concentration sending the car into the path of the tipper truck.
The Pritzkers can only hope that all their current troubles will be fleeting, a brief spasm rather than the beginning of a decline in their fortunes.
Her heavy lids hid her eyes so well that they were seen only momentarily, like the fleeting glimpse of water in a deep well.
He sensed and heard men close about him, saw a dim masked figure in the starlight before him; then his sword crunched home, and he was fleeting away down the alley before the slower-thinking and slower-acting attackers The Bloody Crown of Conan could intercept him. The Bloody Crown Of Conan
Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique.
Instead we can only hope that the odd fleeting moment of inspiration surfaces on what is destined to be an increasingly irrelevant continuance.
Page 132 some rare snatched fleeting moments of rantipole laughter, and at the last a decent bed to die in. The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions
I remember only fleeting moments. Times, Sunday Times
We are fleeting shadows; we deliquesce like ice; and there is only time, in the narrow span of hours between birth and death, to stand, to walk — tofly. Magnum Opus, or A Portrait of the Artist as a Dead Man
While, it's neither advisable nor possible to stop thinking, try practicing keeping the mind blank or empty, even for some fleeting seconds.
As Delaney and Forster hit the deck they caught a fleeting glimpse of the crazed man going for it again.
It's a rare actor who can show up only fleetingly and leave a lasting impression.
Yet inserting a cheeky clause had fleetingly crossed his mind. Times, Sunday Times
The red moments are fleeting, though. Times, Sunday Times
Champagne and cassis is always welcome but all the more so when the Albert Memorial is a stone's throw away reminding one that life's rich pageant is fleeting and all the better to spend what there is in good company.
The next four days went fleetingly.
Her special attribute was her ability to draw friends and allies for a lifetime, based on fleeting contact.
The conviction of Dr. Edelin, despite that defense, opens the possibility that any doctor maybe convicted of homicide in the death of a legally aborted fetus -- particularly in late abortions and those performed by hysterotomy, which run the risk of producing a fetus that shows at least fleeting signs of life. When Is An Abortion Not An Abortion?
As she walked, she heard a fleeting mew from Ruby, who seemed to be getting anxious.
With her long blonde hair, micro-dresses that may incite the prurient to hope for an occasional fleeting glimpse of her underwear and photographs on her book jackets of her in leather dresses, arms akimbo, like a stern but voluptuous school mistress, she is not, as Mr. Moore wrote, “faux glam.” Gamey indeed
The man who dwells for long periods face to face with the bitter truths of life learns so to distrust a fleeting moment of joy, gives habitually so cold a reception to the tardy messenger of delight, that, when the bright guest outdares his churlishness and perforce tarries with him, there ensues a passionate revulsion unknown to hearts which open readily to every fluttering illusive bliss. The Unclassed
The herald glanced at me, a look that was as nervous and as fleeting as the deer in the gardens.
But then, for just a fleeting glimpse, the guard drops. Times, Sunday Times
It all evokes the impermanence of memory and the capacity of photography not so much to capture the fleeting moment, but to embalm it. ArtScene: This Week's Top Exhibitions in the Western U.S. (August 17-21, 2010)
Who gave me love placid who accompany me to see through the fleeting landscape.

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