transitory

How To Use transitory In A Sentence

• If, however, we include in the term morality the transitory display of certain qualities such as abnegation, self-sacrifice, disinterestedness, devotion, and the need of equity, we may say, on the contrary, that crowds may exhibit at times a very lofty morality. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
• Shekinah was but a poor and transitory symbol has 'tabernacled' amongst men in the Christ, and has from Him been communicated, and is being communicated in such measure as earthly limitations and conditions permit, and that these do point on assuredly to perfect impartation hereafter, when 'we shall be like Him, for we shall see Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
• 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.
• But he was more than a transitory pop culture phenomenon. Times, Sunday Times
• It was certainly part of his thinking, the transitory nature of things.
• For our possessions are in heaven; therefore, sons of men, purchase unto yourselves by these transitory things which are not yours, _what is yours_, and shall not pass away. Cosmic Consciousness
• And of course newspapers have to find ways of protecting transitory information in a short time-frame and make money from it.
• 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.
• It is a transitory work which lays the groundwork for themes and styles found in the theater sixty years later.
• So the transitory nature of American sport produces a transitory fixture in a foreign city and anyone who reads one atom of significance into it is crazy. Times, Sunday Times