'ephemeral existence' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing something that is short-lived or fleeting. For example, "Life is full of beauty, but it is also marred by an ephemeral existence, leaving us longing for more."
On Thursday night at Danspace Project, she considered, as she says in her succinct program note, "the most unique attribute of dance, its ephemeral existence".
Even in the age of YouTube, most works have an essentially ephemeral existence: performed for a limited span, seen only by a limited number of people.
In this regard, it is not relevant whether a work is reproduced by means of linear fragments which may have an ephemeral existence because they are immediately effaced in the course of a technical process.
In other words, sandwiched as we are between the "everything" that is behind us and the "zero" beyond us, ours is an ephemeral existence in which there is neither coincidence nor possibility.
I pulled out my copy of "A Wild Sheep Chase" and read the first page of chapter 10: In other words, sandwiched as we are between the "everything" that is behind us and the "zero" beyond us, ours is an ephemeral existence in which there is neither coincidence nor possibility.
Such productions have generally but two phases; by dint of puffing they obtain an ephemeral existence, during which they lie on the club library table, or in the London drawing room, or circulating in the country book society, they draw yawns from the clergyman's wife and the squire's daughter: this is their first phase.
It's how they all work together that makes this "Sisters" special, its sense of how these ephemeral existences impinge on one another, for better and worse.
Friends, enemies, loved ones, and burn-outs: Today, we gather together in this ephemeral online existence we call the internet to commemorate the short life of our beloved MoviePass.
Nicholson Baker's "A Box of Matches" has a very thin fictional apparatus: there is virtually no plot; it's just Baker sitting down with a box of matches — he actually did this, of course, just as for "The Anthologist" he videotaped himself giving lectures about poetry — and thinking, thrillingly, about the ephemeral nature of existence.
It is a period of ephemeral and risky existence of the young species that does not leave any traces in the evolutionary chronicle.
Encouraged by federal flood insurance, islands whose very existence is ephemeral have been lined with vacation homes.
