Sentence examples for Passing joy from inspiring English sources

If time expands in Vermeer's painting of longing, this photograph preserves the fragility of a brief passing joy.

The passing joy of "Passengers," as directed by Morten Tyldum, isn't at all in the ineffable story but in the drolly conceived quasi-documentary details of space travel — the mechanized and economically stratified delivery of breakfast foods, the chrome-plated robot waitstaff with their French accents, the holographic greeters, the swimming pool with a cosmic view.

Her paintings exude an alertness to subtle, passing joys.

The overall mood, despite passing joys, is increasingly poignant.

Anthony notes that the scene shows the monks "saying farewell to worldly things, drinking deep of passing joys".

I'm not sure I believe the scene, yet the belief that it enshrines feels true; the monks are saying farewell to worldly things, drinking deep of passing joys.

This is a story that explicitly counterpoints the passing joys of youth and love (here called the "lovely things … that didn't endure, and the lovelier for that") with that unending glorious earth, the only thing left, now that the sea of faith has retreated.

Musicians who are curious about their folk legacy (the real one) have been discovering its joys, and are passing that joy along to a whole new generation of young people.

Save the Children and its Board of Trustees, senior management team, its staff and children in need in the U.S. and around the world mourn the passing of Joy M. Ruane, widow of former Save the Children donor William J. Ruane, on October 12, 2006.

Let the people take heart and hope everywhere, for the cross is bending, midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning.

Immediately we began to pass out joy, via flowers, to the strangers we passed by.