Sentence examples for fleeting modes from inspiring English sources

As discussed in section 3, Descartes insists that our ideas of geometrical figures and the like are 'eternal' and 'immutable' (and Malebranche takes him also to hold that they are 'common to all intelligences'), but Malebranche wonders here how this can be possible if they are merely fleeting modes of finite minds.

For that fleeting moment, the default mode network stepped in to take over for an idle brain.

Fashion is fleeting.

The A580 and A560 can freeze fleeting photo opportunities at up to 7 fps in Speed Priority Continuous Advance mode.

Clive, in Harrison mode, does not have the heart to pass up, as he says about an ex-girlfriend, now 60, "a fleeting glance at her admirable bottom".

Age: Fleeting.

Too fleeting!

Successes are often fleeting.

Surprise is fleeting.

The glimpses are fleeting.

The results feel fleeting.