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It was as if he knew he was saying goodbye to his readers in that novel's Gatsby-like concluding lines: "For we are all swimmers ephemerally buoyed by what will engulf us at the last; still dreaming of islands though the mainland has been lost; swept remorselessly out to sea while we spread our arms to the beautiful shore".
The larger company, bearing the proud title Les Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo, featured the choreography of Léonide Massine; the smaller, ephemerally titled Les Ballets 1933, was a showcase for Diaghilev's last choreographer, the younger and much less famous Georges (as he was then) Balanchine.
A year later, in the closing minutes of Game 6, on the Garden parquet, when it became clear that this time the Lakers would not find a way to let the Celtics steal the game, that this time the gleam of victory was in Magic's and Kareem's and Worthy's and Michael Cooper's eyes, I felt touched by something like pure happiness — which is available only ephemerally , by contrast with its opposite.
He yearns, as he has written more than once, for "the ephemerally salubrious separation of management from ownership".
More ephemerally , on Oct. 19, a guitar player wearing a green suit, red scarf and black hat stood on an elevated train platform.
Now Mars is a planet on the edge where water, if it exists, is there only ephemerally.
I'd agree that a funny, Photoshopped meme of a politician is only ephemerally amusing – although one might argue that we need them when we're living with scrolling news footage of George Osborne in a hard-hat.
But it has been so badly served by administrators' bloating the itinerary and so thoroughly eclipsed by a flashier, even more ephemerally enjoyable format that a failure to excite this time will just about render it redundant.
Before the silicon chip was invented, pen and paper, the printing press and the camera all helped store information for us, ephemerally or for posterity.
* * * " 'But it is,' returned she; 'for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.' " Translation: "But it is," rejoindered his partner; "for Mrs. Long has just existed ephemerally in our site of domesticity and she verbalized to me the relevant narrative arc of its exchange-based commoditization".
Playing yourself can happen like that — ephemerally , inconsequentially.
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The adverb "ephemerally" modifies verbs, adjectives, or other adverbs to indicate that an action or state occurs for a very short time. It enhances descriptions by emphasizing the transient nature of something, as seen in Ludwig's examples.
Expression frequency: Common
