"fleeting mood" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when describing a brief or temporary feeling or emotion. Example: "She was known for her unpredictable and fleeting moods, one moment laughing and the next in tears."
Yet she is frequently trenchant in describing fleeting moods and unspoken transactions.
The ONS posed a variety of such queries: participants were asked to make broad judgments about their lives, but, recognising that such answers are often influenced by fleeting moods, researchers also asked them to describe their mood yesterday.
After the storm,I followed the tone rows & tentative tap tap tapof drainpipe off metal roof a blind man's cane, wanderingOedipus sensations uprooted to atmospheric effects,the many weathers of this moment, this place its windy gusts, fleeting moods, scherzo of cloud shadowracing over rockface—& wondered, at the risk of forgetfulness,where do we go, venturing forth beyond our murkyorigins?
After the storm,I followed the tone rows & tentative _tap tap tap_of drainpipe off metal roof a blind man's cane, wanderingOedipus sensations uprooted to atmospheric effects,the many weathers of this moment, this place its windy gusts, fleeting moods, scherzo of cloud shadowracing over rockface—& wondered, at the risk of forgetfulness,where do we go, venturing forth beyond our murkyorigins?
Before a 1-0 loss at Buffalo on Wednesday, Callahan captured a fleeting upbeat mood by saying, "We are in control of our own fate; our focus is ahead of us, not behind us".
At home, in front of a TV, in private, there are no such inhibitions — even though I do often see DVDs of films I dislike to the end, and sometimes watch them a second time to guard against the possibility of having been victim to a fleeting or capricious mood.
It could be exhilarating to take on the welter of causation and consequence, but clarity was fleeting, more of a mood than an all-encompassing grasp; there must be an endorphin that's triggered by the call-and-response recapitulation of a giant variegated clusterfuck.
Like that other happy dawn 30 years ago, too, Friday's marriage will offer a respite, albeit fleeting, from a public mood weighed down by recession fears, unemployment and a government austerity program that has labor unions edging toward a season of paralyzing strikes.
Reviews of this and other published dolphin-assisted therapy (DAT) studies have found important methodological flaws, leading reviewers to conclude that there is no compelling scientific evidence that DAT is a legitimate therapy, or that it affords any more than fleeting improvements in human mood.
