Sentence examples for ephemeral pleasures from inspiring English sources

You can tell that Mr. Thiebaud knows exactly where his strengths lie, and what, from his vast catalog of pies and cakes and other ephemeral pleasures, will hold up in the long run.

Or perhaps the open ending suggests that life simply goes on, in endless cycles, as we keep struggling in vain to be free from the ephemeral pleasures and sorrows of our brief existence.

One: Amid this large and loose area known as modern or contemporary dance, which works are for the ages, rather than being ephemeral pleasures or stimuli of the passing season?

Now, I'll be the first to admit I don't "get" fashion, but to intimate its ephemeral pleasures to the non-believer and non-understander, I think you'd need a more astringent and detached - and a funnier - movie than this.

Bearing scratchy, unauthorized copies of recordings by the pop luminaries Tom Jones and Andy Williams, as well as American funk and disco acts like Donna Summer and Hot Chocolate, sound postcards helped Poles cut off from Western pop culture to partake of its ephemeral pleasures.

Indeed, his gravity as an artist cannot be separated from his insistence that ephemeral pleasure is a sufficient goal for both good art and a good life.

Smoking is ephemeral pleasure that subtracts from the pleasures your body is capable of giving you through making love, sports, rushes of insight, a physical exertion when needed.

And what flowers were to Keats, the leisure of the upper classes was to Fitzgerald -- lush, sensuous and real, a symbol of the ideal that was also a fragile thing, as ephemeral as pleasure.

Susan Cherniak created gentle choreographic pleasures in "Ephemeral Moments," the program Cherniak Dance presented on Sunday night at the Joyce SoHo.

And later I thought: It's O.K. Finding pleasure in the ephemeral is, actually, the why and wherefore of travel.

Misfortune is rarely so complete, however, as to lack the price of a good restaurant meal or a night with a splendid woman: "I embraced the Governor's firm body with the joyful despair of the vanquished who know that our only victory is the triumph of the senses on the ephemeral but true field of pleasure".