W. G. Sebald has remarked that Walser's writing "has the tendency to dissolve upon reading, so that only a few hours later one can barely remember the ephemeral figures, events and things of which it spoke…Everything written in these incomparable books has — as their author might himself have said — a tendency to vanish into thin air".
Sebald goes on to ask, "How is one to understand an author who was so beset by shadows … who created humorous sketches from pure despair, who almost always wrote the same thing and yet never repeated himself, whose prose has the tendency to dissolve upon reading, so that only a few hours later one can barely remember the ephemeral figures, events and things of which it spoke".
She was some ephemeral figure captured during a moment of pride and happiness.
While she naturally gave personal testimony about Barack Obama's character and urged voters to support him on that basis, in the story Clinton told Obama was an ephemeral figure.
Along the longitudinal axis of the basin an Axial fluvial system (AS) is composed of gravels, sands and lutites deposited in a river valley, along with palustrine carbonates and evaporites from ephemeral lakes (Figure 1).
These investigative figures are ephemeral and unexplored -- most likely because, as Ferris admits in a recent Slate interview, he slashed hundreds of pages of more traditional detective novel material in the course of writing To Rise Again.
His featured series, Today I Shall Judge Nothing That Occurs, documents what Harris describes as "ephemeral moments and emblematic figures shot in the 1980s and 90s, against a backdrop of seismic shifts in the art world, the emergence of multiculturalism, the second wave of AIDS activism, and incipient globalization".
If, indeed, a search for authenticity underlies this phenomenon, together with a sense that the folk music revival was a journey into an unrecoverable past and that most rock music was obscure and ephemeral, then there are few figures as authentic or representative as Johnny Cash.
Its tragic hero, Okolo, is both an individual and a universal figure, and the ephemeral "it" that he is searching for could represent any number of transcendent moral values.
Donna Chung's painted cardboard sculpture of a big slice of watermelon was returned to her wrapped in semi-transparent paper, and it remains so, figuring in an ephemeral installation of rope and cut paper.
They had not begun to slink across the rotten leaves and forest duff, breathing through their wet skin, easing into the ephemeral pond, to start their figure-eight fandangos.
