Sentence examples for are momentary from inspiring English sources

Four closely interrelated arguments provide the defence of the Sautrāntika's claim that ultimately real unique particulars are momentary instants.

The term vināśitva ("perishing", "perishability") has been interpreted by all major modern writers as showing the reason in an argument for momentariness, as if the argument was that things are momentary, because they perish spontaneously.

The Sarvāstivāda-Vaibhāṣika proposed a fully-fledged doctrine of momentariness according to which all physical and mental phenomena are momentary.

That is, they are momentary things".

But such agitations are momentary and of no importance.

There are momentary flashes that could be gunfire or rays of sunlight reflected by windows.

"Hot is momentary.

If so, it's momentary.

Harry Allen's success was momentary.

"Some of this is momentary.

-- but the impact was momentary.