Sentence examples for ephemeral career from inspiring English sources

His passionless wife, his adopted child, his ephemeral career as a reporter have all become stale concerns for him.

In the old as in the new world he was henceforth fated to become the instrument of further revolutions, and ere the close of his brilliant but ephemeral career in the land of his fathers, to atone amply for the errors and follies of his former life, by his chivalrous and heroic devotion in the cause of civil and religious freedom".

But that ad hoc moment neatly illustrated how Mr. Yankovic, at 51, has carved out a career in the ephemeral field of novelty music by preparing for the unpredictable undulations of the zeitgeist.

He has spent his career turning everything from the ephemeral to the profound -- phone sex, death, Y2K, genetic engineering, Tonya Harding, his own divorce, dead skunks in the middle of the road -- into song.

During the verses, the more nervous personality discusses her concerns about leaving No Doubt for a solo career as well as the ephemeral success of female singers in the music industry.

It's one of those perfect moments in dance and – just like a dancer's career – while you know it's ephemeral, you don't want it to end.

She also recovered from an ephemeral "loathing" for photography, or for the discipline a career required, to do some of her purest work as a modernist.

The career of a professional athlete can be ephemeral.

You will have fewer career-development options simply because of the ephemeral nature of the contract.

He produced much of his major work — the wax sculptures of raw meat and the processional installations of ephemeral materials — in New York and Europe in the 1960s and '70s, after which his career went into eclipse.

In an era when pop hits can be as ephemeral as a deleted MP3 file, Mr. Springsteen has spent much of his career laboring to write durable songs about American dreams, from "Born to Run" to "Promised Land".