Among the shortlisted artists exhibiting was a young man who made evanescent little sculptures – monkeys, rabbits, squirrels – out of the fluff he scratched up from a newly laid carpet using his fingernails.
Most of the light passes through the glass but part of it, known as the evanescent wave, skims the surface of the liquid crystal.
Using the same set director, Benoit Barouh, Mr Tran has produced tints and images that imbue its cheery-sad tale of three sisters with a poetic delight that shows life as precious, evanescent, and infinitely rich.
Shadow puppets, for example, which are used with evanescent charm in "The King Stag", are never quite allowed to take centre stage in "The Lion King".
An elite that passes only money to the next generation is evanescent ("Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations," as the adage has it).
And his current lead in the polls could prove as evanescent as Mr Jospin's sudden interest in the Tobin tax.
Bureaucrats preserve their prerogatives against evanescent political pressure (Lord Young has long since departed the government).
Competing relatives and biographers struggle to sustain our interest, as they vie to control their evanescent "memories of memories".As the 20th century unfolds, an ageing cast reinvents and pokes at Cecil, with letters and fragments as ammunition in the wars of literary remembrance.
Miked up and wearing blue jeans, with a guitar perched at his side, he explained how the broken, evanescent thing we call life on Earth was nothing like the true life everlasting of the Bible.Later I thought I would ponder all this over a latte in the excellent, indeed funky coffee bar, Spill the Beans, I had discovered above Reedy River the previous day.
Rather, it is a roiling, seething cauldron of evanescent particles.
Does Bashar Assad, the son-of-dictator-about-to-be-president, belong to the evanescent twilight of the old era, or does he usher in a more enlightened one?
