Sentence examples for ephemeral life from inspiring English sources
"Yvon and I both know how ephemeral life is and our time on this planet is limited," said Ridgeway.
allocerus turns wide desert regions of predominately ephemeral life into landscapes dominated by species-rich perennial grassland supporting uninterrupted perennial life even during dry seasons and drought years".
Even if being confined to a room in Tate Modern is a melancholy prospect, Hirst's butterflies encourage us to reflect on how ephemeral life is for every insect – and for their human spectators.
His edition of "Mayflies of the Driftless Region" by Clarke Garry, a book that details the insect's ephemeral life cycle, is a case in point.Patricia Owen of California has fashioned a beetle-like shell in black and grey goatskin with green suede flyleaves, as if the mayfly had just alighted.
Yet here, Barry sets himself the task of spinning this ephemeral life into fully fledged story, in which a scrawny, mewling baby, Willie, is greeted as 'a scrap of a song none the less, a point of light in the sleety darkness, a beginning'.
Friends are ephemeral, life is meaningless, ah Bartleby, ah Camus!
It is, in other words, as ephemeral as life itself.
But for me, at least, as the summer twilight shaded into full night, the exhilaration of this "Hair" was tempered by an exquisitely sad taste of the ephemeral in life.
To answer your question most directly, maybe it would be best to quote a chapter-ending paragraph from "Exit Ghost": "Isn't one's pain quotient shocking enough without fictional amplification, without giving things an intensity that is ephemeral in life and sometimes even unseen?
As usual, Nathan, like his creator, anticipates the reader's question: "But isn't one's pain quotient shocking enough without fictional amplification, without giving things an intensity that is ephemeral in life and sometimes even unseen?" His answer: "Not for some.
To answer your question most directly, maybe it would be best to quote a chapter-ending paragraph from Exit Ghost: 'Isn't one's pain quotient shocking enough without fictional amplification, without giving things an intensity that is ephemeral in life and sometimes even unseen?
