impermanence

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[ UK /ɪmpˈɜːmənəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations
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How To Use impermanence In A Sentence

  • It speaks to the way life comes and goes, with its beauties and tragedies, through its balletic recording of transience and impermanence.
  • It transports the viewer into that perspective of Buddhist permanent impermanence, which is perhaps a kind of definition for photography itself. New Haven Independent
  • Impermanence reigns in Atlanta, where white tents dot the landscape like so many mushrooms on the forest floor.
  • Although many buildings are no longer made of wood which is too expensive and hard to maintain, Japanese cities still look a little jerry-built, rather like movie sets, as though in anticipation of impermanence—less like Manhattan, more like Los Angeles. Japan's Shattered Mirror
  • Buddhist Lamas of Drepung Loseling Monastery have a festival for the (impermanence) where they paint a picture with colorful sand, they take Millions of grains of sand and painstakingly laid into place on a flat platform over a period of days or weeks. to create mystic and exquisite most unique painting, this art is called (dul-tson-kyil-khor) which literally means "Mandala", Truth in religions
  • But even for those who aren't particularly attached to plastic discs (or liner notes, or cover art, or lyric sheets), the impermanence is still problematic. Boing Boing: January 27, 2002 - February 2, 2002 Archives
  • His philosophy stressed the impermanence of the world.
  • Fame and interest are impermanent and varying. Impermanence is the source of suffering.
  • The conservative philosopher, George Santayana, addressed the danger of the lack of em>retentiveness in response to what Leon Edel, Henry James's biographer, referred to as ‘America's cult of impermanence’.
  • There's also the bittersweetness of experiencing time passing and the impermanence of our lives. Rachael Freed: Legacy Writing: The Urge To Preserve
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