But in recent decades, Vietnamese beer culture has morphed, adopting traditional European styles as well as embracing a uniquely ephemeral home-grown brew called bia hoi.
The desire for last-minute convenience remains powerful in America, often trumping the more ephemeral rewards of home cooking.
If your timing is right, and aided by informative signs that drive home the ephemeral nature of barrier island existence, you may see rangy pelicans or a great blue heron along a boardwalk that skirts a marsh outside the building.
And is the notion of a secure "home" ultimately ephemeral?
Whether that means things I love or dislike, it drives home the ephemeral nature of my relationship to the world.
But as a flawed person living in very close quarters with three tiny humans, the sparks fly, emotions run high, and happy isn't an ephemeral fairy dusting my home with sunshine and unicorn dust--it's a state of mind.
Inside the pool exists an edifice, the Palais Garnier, home to an ephemeral microcosm of reality.
Perhaps the most unique of these habitats are ephemeral bodies of water that are home to communities characterized by extreme reduction in plant size, and annual or geophytic life histories [ 3, 4].
Encouraged by federal flood insurance, islands whose very existence is ephemeral have been lined with vacation homes.
Instagram is copying Snapchat's Memories feature and going a step further, letting you create a permanent home to show off formerly ephemeral content.
I took it home and realised that stationery – seemingly so ephemeral and transitory – could have a much longer shelf life.
