How To Use Transitory In A Sentence
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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
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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)
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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.
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But he was more than a transitory pop culture phenomenon.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was certainly part of his thinking, the transitory nature of things.
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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
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And of course newspapers have to find ways of protecting transitory information in a short time-frame and make money from it.
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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.
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It is a transitory work which lays the groundwork for themes and styles found in the theater sixty years later.
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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
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The things that belong to the visible realm are transitory and impermanent.
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They are of a partial and transitory nature.
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Transitory Objects" includes two elegant models from Alisa Andrasek that are part of a design project called "Mesonic Emission, " a reference to mesons, subatomic particles composed of quarks.
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These paintings depicted the fleeting moments, transitory effects of atmosphere.
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I mean what could you possibly win, apart from cash and the kind of frankly transitory and ephemeral applause of certain kinds?
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From a review of the work, Dr. Boyd has found that all the patients had had hyperglycaemia or even glycosuria at times, but if such occurrences were only transitory and infrequent, improvement in tolerance occurred.
Frederick G. Banting - Nobel Lecture
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The automobile is no more than a transitory phenomenon.
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps geons had a transitory exitance early in history of the universe.
Goodbye.
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Transitory relief on business rates bills hide the real cost in future years.
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The amorousness of youth has little to do with the desire for the union of souls; what Shakespeare mocks time and again is the borrowing of the imagery of the union of souls for something far more immediate and specific and transitory.
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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
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His explanations have invariably emphasised the transitory nature of the problem.
Times, Sunday Times
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The transitory and singularly small and simple denticle in the horse exemplifies the rudiment of an ancestral structure in the same degree as do the hoofless splint-bones; just as the spurious hoofs dangling therefrom in hipparion are retained rudiments of the functionally developed lateral hoofs in the broader foot of palæotherium.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science
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Being a repetition on earlier happenings, each composition becomes imbued with a solid mass; no longer transitory, these selections are guided along a set path.
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Consumption, as well as income, has both a permanent and a transitory component.
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It is only prudent to renounce what is transitory and illegitimate for that is what is permanent and sublime.
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These intimations of mortality triggered in him a ‘consciousness of my very caducity’ (writer's note: caducity is ‘the quality of being transitory or perishable’).
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Downsizing and rising credentialism are factors that have affected careers during the 1980s and 1990s, resulting in spiral and transitory career patterns becoming more common.
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They have faded quite a bit, and that makes perfect sense since they were created as transitory objects.
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Not all coaches would have favoured the permanence of class over the transitory nature of form.
Times, Sunday Times
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The main reason is inherent in the transitory nature of the Government he was asked to form a year ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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Prefiguring Expressionist chiaroscuro in their tonal brilliance, they achieve the seemingly impossible brief of ensnaring the transitory temperament of meteorological effects.
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It just felt nice to be a part (however fresh-faced and transitory) of a different city, orienting myself slowly, getting a feel for the grid system.
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In the final analysis, most of life's joys are transitory.
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It is also criticized for its inability to react swiftly to transitory opportunities and to sponsor unconventional programs.
INSIDE THE TORNADO: MARKETING STRATEGIES FROM SILICON VALLEY'S CUTTING EDGE
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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
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And, besides, a man borne along by this transitory felicity must either know or not know its unstability.
Consolation of Philosophy
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Some of her brief message-poems for friends can seem tenuous and transitory.
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In the ordinary practice of hardening steels, the quenching is not so drastic, and the transformation of austenite back to ferrite and cementite is more or less completely effected, giving rise to certain transitory forms which are known as "martensite," "troostite," "sorbite," and finally, pearlite.
The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel
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Unlike more transitory fads and fashions, however, financial manias and panics have real and lasting economic consequences.
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Seen in this light natural law appears as a group of principles that tran - scend the law of different epochs and regrouping a set of norms endowed with a certain continuity by opposi - tion to the law of a given epoch, which is transitory and changing; for the law of any epoch is the inter - preter of the preceding one, whereas natural law is the law which outlives the times.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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These feelings tend to be transitory.
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Very often these effects are mentioned precisely for their transitory quality, since clouds are matter-and-energy in flux, whilst mountains and waters exist in a completely different state of materiality.
Shan-shui
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In short, knowing how transitory life is, let us seize the fleeting, refulgent moment.
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On our whirling globe with its transitory, jet-propelled people, isolation is no longer the demoralising fate it once was.
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love is transitory but it is eternal
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The best-studied CAM models produce predominantly starch in the chloroplast as the transitory carbon reserve to support nocturnal carboxylation and malate synthesis.
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The ‘toilet’ and ‘fashion’ definitions could similarly be tied into this Gnostic interpretation, being signifiers of both the impurity and transitory nature of material reality.
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And in this day to day life you live no more than in that moving and transitory moment.
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But what I have already said will perhaps suffice to show to genuine philological students that a language which, preserving so many of the roots in the aboriginal form, and clearing from the immediate, but transitory, polysynthetical stage so many rude incumbrances, s from popular ignorance into that popular passion or ferocity which precedes its decease, as (to cite illustrations from the upper world) during the
The Coming Race
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Most teenage romances are transitory.
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To most though, it's typical of the transitory nature of everything in town.
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The order does not define "expeditiously" and the definitional section of the order says that the terms 'detention facilities' and 'detention facility'"do not refer to facilities used only to hold people on a short-term, transitory basis.
A Call to End All Renditions
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In disposition is that transitory melancholy which goes and comes upon every small occasion of sorrow, need, sickness, trouble, fear, grief, passion or perturbation of the mind.
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Stories and their pervasiveness is the kind of stuff which keeps changing pending the immediacy of transitory needs the mind is quick to invent to keep the story interesting and in control of you.
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His explanations have invariably emphasised the transitory nature of the problem.
Times, Sunday Times
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I mean what could you possibly win, apart from cash and the kind of frankly transitory and ephemeral applause of certain kinds?
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And some good judges, who regard this exclusive elevation of the first edition as a very parochial limitation on the health and growth of bibliophily, believe also that it will be transitory.
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The only reference I could find to the phenomenon in a modern textbook was in a handbook of ill health in trees, where fasciation is described as ‘a usually transitory curiosity’.
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It is also criticized for its inability to react swiftly to transitory opportunities and to sponsor unconventional programs.
INSIDE THE TORNADO: MARKETING STRATEGIES FROM SILICON VALLEY'S CUTTING EDGE
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Soothingly transitory, the track's Beatlesesque ‘Doo Doos’ are embedded in a piano that's bounced around the hollow of an aluminum conch.
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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
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Just as the evanescent electric spark travels up the wire and disappears, we see how transitory our seemingly stable universe may prove to be.
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The problem, however, is that the growth effect is transitory - a one off, as the British say.
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Winter and the other seasons exist due to the inclination of the Earth toward it's axis of rotation/translation (can't recall exactly which one now), which makes portions of the Earth get more heath from the Sun during aproximately 3 months (Summer) of the year and then get less heath fromanother 3 months (Winter) with two transitory phases in between those two (Spring and Fall).
Poll: Global warming skepticism on the rise
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The idealized figures are no longer in the idealized landscape; it was a transitory image.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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In part, the persistence reflected what was thought to be the special, and transitory, impacts from the initial oil shocks to the economy.
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With Cornelius, in fact, it was nothing less than the joy which Dante apprehended in the blessed spirits of the perfect, the outward semblance of which, like a reflex of physical light upon human faces from "the land which is very far off," we may trace from Giotto onward to its consummation in the work of Raphael -- the serenity, the [53] durable cheerfulness, of those who have been indeed delivered from death, and of which the utmost degree of that famed "blitheness" of the Greeks had been but a transitory gleam, as in careless and wholly superficial youth.
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2
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The visible things are transitory: it is the invisible things that are really permanent.
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Today's oceans and continents are thus transitory features produced by incessant geotectonic processes that are energized by three sources of the earth's heat: energy conducted through the lithosphere from the underlying hot mantle, radiogenic decay of heat-producing crustal elements, and convective transport by magmas and fluids during orogenic events.
Global material cycles
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However transitory the contentment is, one loves to live in a fool's paradise.
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The major toxicities were fever, chill, tire, tetter, transitory abnormal liver function and so on.
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He had retired amongst these ruins of transitory greatness to warn his fellow-creatures against carnal passions, prayed for the dead and shrived the living.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
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Social interactions based on neighbourhood have been deteriorating for decades - particularly in highly transitory urban areas.
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Unlike more transitory fads and fashions, however, financial manias and panics have real and lasting economic consequences.
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The automobile is no more than a transitory phenomenon.
Times, Sunday Times
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Evelyn, “borne on a branch set with thorns, and accompanied with the lily, are natural hieroglyphics of our fugitive, umbratile, anxious, and transitory life, which, making so fair a show for a time, is not yet without its thorns and crosses.”
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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- Anti-tetanic serum only has a transitory action and must be combined with anti-tetanic vaccination.
Chapter 4
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For that one single moment, that transitory instant, I was actually delighted to see him again.
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Given the transitory nature of its effects, it is worth weighing up very carefully all the pros and cons before going ahead.
The A-Z of Beauty Treatment
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Where Sin, Sorrow, and Sufferings, of all Kinds, and from all Quarters, accost and attack her, and from which she is perpetually wishing to be delivered; and yet is loth to quit this her Earthly Mansion: Which Fondness for this transitory Life, and Fear to imbark for a Better in the Ocean of Eternity, must surely proceed from a Deficiency of Faith, and the Want of a firm Belief of Future Happiness.
A Patch-Work Screen for the Ladies
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As a result, there was a transitory period of political and economic stabilisation in the early twenties.
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Speech, gesture, and every other form of human action are, in the long run, resolvable into muscular contraction, and muscular contraction is but a transitory change in the relative positions of the parts of a muscle.
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It may be that there is something inherently transitory in this vanished form.
The Times Literary Supplement
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It is not only the formal, but also the processual and transitory elements of human situations that preoccupy the dramaturgists.
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Downsizing, delayering, and rising credentialism are factors that have careers during the 1980s and 1990s, resulting in spiral and transitory career patterns becoming more common.
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Given the transitory nature of its effects, it is worth weighing up very carefully all the pros and cons before going ahead.
The A-Z of Beauty Treatment
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Not all coaches would have favoured the permanence of class over the transitory nature of form.
Times, Sunday Times
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We dare not contemplate an Atlantis, a scheme out of which our coxcombical moral sense is for a little transitory ease excluded.
English literary criticism
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The parts of jurisprudence which he looked upon with affection were exactly those which a modern theorist leaves out of consideration as accidental and transitory; the solemn gestures of the mancipation; the nicely adjusted questions and answers of the verbal contract; the endless formalities of pleading and procedure.
Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society
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It is also criticized for its inability to react swiftly to transitory opportunities and to sponsor unconventional programs.
INSIDE THE TORNADO: MARKETING STRATEGIES FROM SILICON VALLEY'S CUTTING EDGE
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But certainly across the primates, and I've watched quite a lot of primates copulating, there's remarkably little indication that the female gets any pleasure whatsoever from a rather transitory brief copulatory encounter.
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Social interactions based on neighbourhood have been deteriorating for decades - particularly in highly transitory urban areas.
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Certain non-Buddhists who accept rebirth accept the transitory nature of mind and body, but they believe in a self that is permanent, changeless and unitary.
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From a review of the work, Dr. Boyd has found that all the patients had had hyperglycaemia or even glycosuria at times, but if such occurrences were only transitory and infrequent, improvement in tolerance occurred.
Frederick G. Banting - Nobel Lecture
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State anxiety is a transitory state, which occurs in response to a stimulus and is likely to vary in intensity as a function of the stimulus.
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Given the marginal and transitory nature of these shows, it is a wonder that anyone remembers them at all.
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It may be that there is something inherently transitory in this vanished form.
The Times Literary Supplement
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In the ordinary practice of hardening steels, the quenching is not so drastic, and the transformation of austenite back to ferrite and cementite is more or less completely effected, giving rise to certain transitory forms which are known as "martensite," "troostite," "sorbite," and finally, pearlite.
The Working of Steel Annealing, Heat Treating and Hardening of Carbon and Alloy Steel
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Even under these circumstances imagination, as though rebelling against the conditions of sunshine and summer then maintaining, leaped to picture Mên Scryfa under the black screaming of winter storm or rising darkly upon deep snows; casting a transitory shadow over a waste ghastly blue under flashes of lightning, or throbbing to its deep roots when thunder roared over the moor and the levin brand hissed unseen into quag and fen.
Lying Prophets
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Furthermore, a characteristic could be something temporary or transitory if the subject of taunts or insults.
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In its definitions section, the order specifies that the term detention facilities does not include "facilities used only to hold people on a short-term, transitory basis.
FindLaw Writ - Recent Articles
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Short-lived, transitory projects and the open exchange of ideas filters our emotions through an agile and razor sharp intelligence.
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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
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For the first time, therefore, an appearance of sugar in the urine - a glycosuria, though of a transitory nature - was experimentally produced; and consequently this discovery by Claude Bernard may be characterized as the starting-point of a series of experimental researches into the causes and nature of diabetes.
Physiology or Medicine 1923 - Presentation Speech
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The room resembled an installation in a vacuous art gallery, the re? ection of the ceiling bulb on the wood? oor intended to signify the false surface of existence, the felled suitcases embodying the transitory nature of life — or more speci? cally, the life of the subject, shrimped up in the corner against a bare, mispainted wall.
'Love And Obstacles'
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The main reason is inherent in the transitory nature of the Government he was asked to form a year ago.
Times, Sunday Times
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Serres found it in the thought which he probably owed to the German transcendentalists (see Chap. VII.), that the permanent structure of the lower animals could be compared with phases in the development of the higher, and particularly of man, or, as he put it, that comparative anatomy was often only a fixed and permanent anthropogeny, and anthropogeny a fugitive and transitory comparative anatomy (xi., p. 106).
Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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Real property, which is easily identified, is more completely within the right of postliminy than moveable property, which is more transitory in its nature, and less easily recognized.
The Laws Of War, Affecting Commerce And Shipping
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But he was more than a transitory pop culture phenomenon.
Times, Sunday Times
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McAuley seconded Hope's sentiment and sought in transitory embraces an answer to his nagging fear of emotional impairment.
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In this way, the creative process is likened to a search for something that is evasive and transitory, something that is difficult to grasp.
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This may just be a transitory near-term inflationary force.
BOE Heads Reluctantly Toward Rate Increase
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Casting things aside, disposing of things, living a life that viewed the material world as ephemeral, disposable, transitory, rejectable was to deny relationship with things, to insist upon a lifeworld based on mastery over things, a lifeworld based on putting-things-to-service and then casting-them-aside.
Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother
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The things that belong to the visible realm are transitory and impermanent.
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Transparency is a good thing, but markto-market accounting helped to turn transitory, uncrystallised losses into pounds, shillings and pence.
Times, Sunday Times
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Relativism is not an attractive proposition to anyone, least of all philosophers, because everything becomes so uncertain and transitory.
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Both measured income and measured consumption, the theory suggests, contain a permanent and a transitory element.
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Château, might have been nothing more than the transitory emotion of an excited girl moved to an expression repented of when the mood cooled.
The Justice of the King
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Evelyn, "borne on a branch set with thorns and accompanied with the lily, are natural hieroglyphics of our fugitive, umbratile, anxious, and transitory life, which, making so fair a show for a time, is not yet without its thorns and crosses.
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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The benefit to unemployment figures was transitory.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bouquet structure of chromosomes is usually a transitory prophase stage in other eukaryotes.
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In the aging actress films, transitory tyrants return with a vengeance and refuse to pass away.
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Only for an immediate and transitory need, such as faintness or shock, is the quickly passing stimulating power of alcohol useful; and even for such purposes other stimulants are more valuable.
Problems of Conduct
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I think it was just hormones or something equally useless and transitory.
