transience
IPA: trˈænziʌns
noun
- The quality of being transient, temporary, brief or fleeting.
- An impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying.
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Examples of "transience" in Sentences
- This is the transience of the issue.
- A problem for the school is one of transience.
- Is the different treatment a function of transience
- The poem concerns the troubles and transience of life.
- Could anyone suggest a nice way to show the transience
- It says it's about the fragility and transience of personal love.
- Does he mean transience as species or as groups or as individuals
- Change and transience are marked themes in the process art movement.
- Not even dew borne by the wind suffices to describe this transience.
- It carries a connotation of immaturity, transience, and superficiality.
- 'I like the idea of transience, perishing, loneliness,' said the designer.
- "I like the idea of transience, perishing, loneliness," he said during the installation.
- Ken’s the same way on pretty much all accounts although I don’t know if the transience is a factor.
- According to Mr. Davies, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus pioneered the idea of transience, but it pervades the Christian tradition.
- "In some ways I'm jealous of writers whose work is grounded in place, because mine feels more grounded in transience, which is probably in part due to my sense of Northern Virginia, and to a lesser extent D.C., as a place," she says.
- Jane Simonsen, in her study of attempts to "domesticate" Native American women, writes that "implicit in this condemnation of gossip and transience is the suggestion that isolating women in their homes would keep them from speaking out in tribal councils, preserving rituals and stories, and maintaining kinship ties."
- When it comes to mono no aware in cinema, very few directors seemed to express the concept as successfully as Yasujiro Ozu, who frequently examined the idea of transience within the family unit across a number of great classics, perhaps most successfully through a thematic trilogy of films that is often referred to as
- Studying the millennial sects of Europe from the eleventh to the sixteenth century, Norman Cohn believed he found a persistent psychic complex that corresponds broadly with what I have been considering — a style made up of certain preoccupations and fantasies: “the megalomaniac view of oneself as the Elect, wholly good, abominably persecuted, yet assured of ultimate triumph; the attribution of gigantic and demonic powers to the adversary; the refusal to accept the ineluctable limitations and imperfections of human existence, such as transience, dissention, conflict, fallibility whether intellectual or moral; the obsession with inerrable prophecies … systematized misinterpretations, always gross and often grotesque.”
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