Now, he says, too much was made of this fleeting comment (the middle classes like nothing better than to talk about the middle classes).
Helping to put meat on the bones of each week's necessarily fleeting overview, the comments and recommendations of readers will be an invaluable resource for anyone wanting to dig deeper.
Here the fleeting but revealing comment comes when John Lithgow, the narrator, says Manet shocked "by depicting a working-class woman as a rich courtesan and by elevating his subject matter to the status of a grand Salon painting".
There are also photographs by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, including a group of five framed gelatin silver prints (from an edition of two) showing birds that seem to disappear into the sky, the artist's comment on the fleeting nature of life.
The production pays tribute to this notable pair, while commenting on the fleeting nature of fame and RKO's negligible relationship with truth.
As someone who's unaccountably ended up with the job of commenting on all this fleeting madness, turning its constant sourceless jabbing idiocy into some kind of coherent whole, it's traumatic.
Yet Mauner reminds us that Manet's earlier comment about fruit and flowers -- whose fleeting glories are traditional reminders of death in still life arrangements -- was anything but casual.
Although the remarks the pope made to a crowd at the Cracow airport just before he boarded his plane included a fleeting reference to seeing one another "next time," some of his other comments had a valedictory feel.
Even comments, likes, and app engagements aren't enough since propagation is limited to fleeting, mostly unseen blips in a few friends' tickers.
One would never attempt to call comments on blogs instances of real bonding though they have virtually the same function — fleeting moments of connection that is nowhere near anything we would call real bonding.
