Then Jackie awarded us each the magnanimous sum of 6,000 miles -- less than half the additional miles we had forked over for our ephemeral first-class status.
The lyrics say it all, "You're just a hideaway, you're just a feeling," validating the Canadian singer's status as ephemeral new presence on the dance music scene.
But where Independence Day draws from its pop culture sources in a manner that commemorates movies as escapist, uplifting utopian visions, Mars Attacks! celebrates its references for their inherent trashiness, their outsider status and ephemeral nature, and as an alternative to the somber high-art pretensions of the big-budget blockbuster.
Still, the troubles are a signal that front-runner status can be ephemeral and, sometimes, a liability.
Yet it's precisely this kind of ephemeral communication – a comment, a status update, sharing or disseminating a piece of media – that lies at the heart of much of modern history as it unfolds.
When your entire brand is built on the temporary, fleeting, and inevitably obsolete currency of youthful physical beauty, sexual allure, and cultural status, the word "ephemeral" comes to mind.
Bush and his campaign profess to be unconcerned, and are convinced that Trump's front-runner status will be as ephemeral as the early leads enjoyed by Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann and Herman Cain in the 2012 cycle.
Some of the reasons for textiles' also-ran status are mundane: fabrics are ephemeral, faded by sunlight, dirtied by use.
First, legal history shows that the high-level institutional measures of 1688 1701 can be characterized primarily as either durable and endorsing the status quo or path-breaking and ephemeral.
