Sentence examples for fleeting reason from inspiring English sources

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Yeah, they're going to the World Series, but the thrill of victory is an awfully fleeting reason to follow a baseball team, except, perhaps, if you root for the Yankees.

This is as far as a filmmaker can go before narrative folds and crumples in his hands, which accounts, perhaps, for the movie's perplexing strain of sadness, with Vlady craving only, as she says, "to catch a fleeting reason to be alive".

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Just as sober economists understood that the burst of economic growth and hiring at the end of late 2011 and start of 2012 was probably fleeting, there is reason to think the weak growth of the last two months may not last, either.

His Creation Museum, in Petersburg, Ky., contrasts "God's Word," timeless and eternal, with the fleeting notions of "human reason".

Maybe it looked like he was cheering for a goal; according to a source the Daily Beast spoke to, the dancing men back at the Sofitel "said they couldn't recall the exact reason for their fleeting celebratory behavior but that they believed it may have involved sports, which they frequently talked about".

As I suggested, all music lovers can point to transcendent moments in certain pieces, fleeting passages that, for whatever reasons, just grab them.

Whatever the reason, his pop stardom was fleeting.

There are certain situations in which withholding specific knowledge is to the greater benefit of all involved (for example, there would be no reason to inform your dying mother about a fleeting romantic affair her spouse had 35 years before).

Even though airlines are in better financial health than they have been for years, the DoJ should not make the same mistake again.One reason is that the recovery in the airlines' fortunes is fleeting and superficial.

One issue important to the business community, the budget deficit, could see some fleeting improvement under a Democratic-controlled House, though not for the reasons the businesses lobby might like.

"I couldn't reason or decide, my memory was shot and I had a fleeting attention span".

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