'fleeting effect' is an acceptable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a moment that quickly passes with no lasting effect. For example, "The fireworks created a beautiful, fleeting effect before fading away into the night sky."
The weather is made for us partly by writers and artists who have set down permanently their response to a fleeting effect.
Media storms attacking the science of climate change have only a fleeting effect on the public's interest and do not appear to alter opinions, according to new research.
It's too soon to open the reserve now, because energy analysts expect the conflict in Libya to have a fleeting effect on prices.
In one section of their argument, Kilcullen and Exum write that the experience of chasing down the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, demonstrates that targeting senior Al Qaeda leaders like Osama Bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri now in along the Pakistan-Afghan border "has only a slight and fleeting effect on levels of violence" and that "over-emphasizing it wastes resources".
None has had more than a fleeting effect.
Foremost among them is Theodore Robinson, whose rural landscapes convincingly capture the fleeting effects of natural light.
Yet the Kobe earthquake had only fleeting effects on the Japanese economy, suggesting that the effects of Sept. 11 on the U.S. economy would be equally fleeting.
Many of the paintings are little more than sketches, capturing the fleeting effects of light and the patterns of clouds in motion.
Yet for Pissarro, an anarchist and a Jew (albeit a secular one) in 19th-century France, Impressionism was about much more than the fleeting effects of light.
Green headed home from France with what he thought were two wonderful, rare pastel studies of skies, in which Monet explored fleeting effects of nature and light.
Less camera-faithful to nature, it involved a closer interest in the fleeting effects of light and color, and a more painterly use of pigment.
