Sentence examples for fleeting objects from inspiring English sources

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The upshot is a fairly pathetic picture of a life mired in the passions and pursuing and fleeing the changeable and fleeting objects that occasion them: "We are driven about in many ways by external causes, and … like waves on the sea, driven by contrary winds, we toss about, not knowing our outcome and fate" (IIIp59s).

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But the emotions are as fleeting as the objects that occasion them, and thus the superstitions grounded in those emotions subject to fluctuations.

"The magic of childhood is so fleeting, and these objects I kept finding in Calder's pockets represent a chapter of boyhood, his imagination, and the magic of finding a 'treasure,'" Kaseman told The Huffington Post, adding, "I like the idea of the photographs being a taxonomy report of a child's imagination, specifically Calder's.

The light-hearted Snowman is a complement to Andersen's tragic Fir Tree and, in telling the tale, Andersen returns "to his earlier, tragicomic mode of sketching the fleeting autobiography of an everyday object which seems to have caught his eye at random and yet whose life story has an uncanny appropriateness to its physical form".

Oddly, some objects of your (very fleeting) desire can occasionally be recruited as lieutenants on your ship, where they stand around in silence, gazing at nothing until a battle breaks out.

Cavallaro said he works with perishable components such as cheese to demonstrate the fleeting and decadent nature of material objects and humankind.

De Peyster's fate is an object lesson in the fleeting fame of former mayors.

As the motors whirl, the boxes hobble and bump throughout the art space, evolving mundane objects into buoyant beings for a fleeting moment.

As objects of affection go, rats are rather fleeting.

WORLDPOST In lieu of being able to capture and hold on to fleeting happiness, despite obsessive pursuit, your protagonist Kemal collects objects associated with Fusun.

Gardels: In lieu of being able to capture and hold onto fleeting happiness, despite obsessive pursuit, your protagonist, Kemal, collects objects associated with Fusun.

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