Sentence examples for fleeting duration from inspiring English sources

His conclusion: the close quarters and fleeting duration of the ride encourage passengers to deviate from the rigid social scripts that govern Japanese public life.

During the Washington Square Music Festival on Tuesday, Ms. Tan, an avant-garde artist known for her imaginative performances on toy pianos, held up the two-page score to emphasize the work's fleeting duration.

It monopolizes your attention given its fleeting duration.

When it is referred to as a specific emotion, embarrassment is described as more fleeting in duration and has less serious consequences [ 25] than shame.

Their convictions vary in duration and are often quite fleeting.

An alliance suggests a robust partnership of at least medium-term duration, as compared with the more fleeting coalition.

Thus, the minimum contact length was 2 s; this duration was chosen to capture short fleeting associations between unfamiliar individuals.

He caught a fleeting glimpse of God in the math here, in the infinitesimal duration of a life.

Nothing is less stable than opinion, and nothing more liable to engender fruitless rancor; new technology bears a weighty responsibility for prolonging, even immortalizing, our merest verdicts, far beyond the guttering glow of their natural duration, and, worse still, for admitting those verdicts, however fleeting, as indictable evidence of character.

Because, despite the fleeting nature of most of my encounters, and despite my own role in their short duration, I think what I have been seeking in some form from all of these men is permanence.

Yes, people are getting fucked up, but they're also there to find a fleeting moment of euphoria, to elevate their souls from the drudgery of the day-to-day, if only for the duration of a Nicki Minaj remix.