Sentence examples for fleeting affair from inspiring English sources

When it was over, most agreed that the ballot controversy was a fleeting affair, especially when compared with things above.

For the 4.8 million people who lined England's streets for the first three stages of the Tour de France this summer, the race itself was a fleeting affair.

He loved me and the boys, he loved our lifestyle and his good name was very important to him – no way he'd give all that up for a fleeting affair.

Having become a father last September – following a "fleeting affair" with Tinglan Hong, a Chinese 32-year-old – he is now cast as a cad who couldn't even be bothered to turn up to his own daughter's birth.

For a man who used the words "uncertain" and "uncertainty" four times in his opening remarks earlier today, Mervyn King appears very confident about one thing: inflation's rise above 3%, which probably happened in January as VAT went up, will be a fleeting affair.

A fleeting affair between two of China's biggest tech successes has ended acrimoniously after e-commerce giant Alibaba banned sellers from using Tencent's popular messaging app, WeChat.

Not that the opportunity had never presented itself — but he had lost all interest in fleeting affairs and one-night stands.

He points out, however, that most campfires set by traditional hunter-gatherers are small and fleeting affairs, which would not be expected to leave a strong signature over a million years and counting.

Four years earlier, he had had a fleeting love affair with model Linda Lawrence, ex-girlfriend of the Rolling Stones' Brian Jones.

There are certain situations in which withholding specific knowledge is to the greater benefit of all involved (for example, there would be no reason to inform your dying mother about a fleeting romantic affair her spouse had 35 years before).

Richard Ayoade's debut, Submarine also secured only one nomination (for best British film), while Andrew Haigh's Weekend, which won much acclaim for its quiet portrayal of a fleeting gay affair, found no love from Bafta voters.