transitoriness
IPA: trˈænzʌtɔrinʌs
noun
- The state or quality of being transitory.
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Examples of "transitoriness" in Sentences
- But loving-kindness is not coloured with that transitoriness which is the irremediable defect of love.
- As the very coloring of a flower is itself the functioning of the flower's emergence, so fading, transitoriness, is the function of its creativity.
- Like any good romantic, he regularly reflects on the yearning for love, the consolations of nature, the transitoriness of all things and the deep yet moonlit loneliness of life.
- The transitoriness is the same, and the eternal consequences are eternal alike in both; and yet there is a very solemn sense in which the one man's life has utterly perished, and the other's abides.
- And, even if it cannot efface golden memories of the one he did at Stratford in 1958 and is a bit short on festive exuberance, it catches perfectly the play's melancholy and preoccupation with time, transitoriness and loss.
- Great Regulars: Whereas we tend to consign a dark, bittersweet nostalgia to the all-encompassing dustbin of sentimentality, the Hispanic sensibility has saved it as a poignant and durable feeling relating to the transitoriness of life.
- Reflecting her fascination with what might be called "transitoriness," how things change over time, these lamps, tables, chairs and fountains explore how found objects can actually rediscover new life and beauty under her hands. about me
- The immortality question is just was impossible for me, and I think you're right in linking it to the transitoriness that make us human: if we could exist forever, then it is no longer an "us" that is timeless -- since timeboundedness is the condition of our being, not an inconvenient fact we learn once we've started to be.
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