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evanescent
1. If Prempeh had acted up to his acknowledged principles he should have committed suicide rather than be removed; but he was too great a coward to do that, simply to bestow his evanescent power on his successor
2. Gallery goers eager for a moment in the presence of evanescent fame, but who may wish to share only the presence, but not the essence, of this unique exhibit, beware
3. And how dangerous ambition can become when it is once wholly wedded to self-seeking and supremely motivated by sullen and long-suppressed vengeance! What a crushing thing is disappointment in the lives of those foolish persons who, in fastening their gaze on the shadowy and evanescent allurements of time, become blinded to the higher and more real achievements of the everlasting attainments of the eternal worlds of divine values and true spiritual realities
4. In the postcards that he sent from the way stations he would describe with shouts the instantaneous images that he had seen from the window of his coach, and it was as if he were tearing up and throwing into oblivion some long, evanescent poem: the chimerical Negroes in the cotton fields of Louisiana, the winged horses in the bluegrass of Kentucky, the Greek lovers in the infernal sunsets of Arizona, the girl in the red sweater painting watercolors by a lake in Michigan who waved at him with her brushes, not to say farewell but out of hope, because she did not know that she was watching a train with no return passing by
5. This worldly life is of no residence and all what is on it are evanescent
6. “Sometimes I feel that way—but it’s such an evanescent sensation
7. Imagination! who can paint thy power; or reflect the evanescent tints of hope
8. There was something evanescent about Morel, she thought, something shifting and false
9. Upon the whole she felt gratified, even though such a limited and evanescent triumph should involve her daughter's reputation; it might end in marriage yet, and in the warmth of her responsiveness to their admiration she invited her visitors to stay to tea
10. Fads overtake the world of investment with even greater virulence than women’s clothing, and are equally evanescent
11. In contrast, flow variables such as revenue and earnings measure changes over time that by their nature are evanescent
12. No doubt preference may properly be accorded in these fields to the companies making the best quantitative showing (if not offset by known qualitative factors)—for this basis of selection would seem sounder than any other—but the analyst and the investor should be fully aware that such superiority may prove evanescent
13. There's a big word for that: "evanescent
14. As we saw in Chapter 8, market cycles are evanescent
15. In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent
16. The evanescent fashions fly
17. The elementary battery of Wollaston, though productive of an evanescent ignition, was too minute to allow him to make the observations which I had in view
18. The former deals with the passions, the latter with those shadowy and evanescent sensations which we call feelings