Sentence examples for fleeting satisfaction from inspiring English sources

Our brain juices reward us with positive, but fleeting, satisfaction.

Not just the literal domicile in which a person resides, but the tingle that comes with fleeting satisfaction.

This should come as no surprise: It is, after all, the Millennial Agenda™ to kill the housing market and force future generations to subside on nothing but avocado toast and the fleeting satisfaction of a good fidget spin.

While fantasizing about retaliation and revenge may bring fleeting satisfaction and relief for the raw emotions of hurt and anger, Christians submit to the admonition that "vengeance belongs to God".

And over the past week, Politico revealed White House efforts to prevent the Pentagon from hiring an American diplomat seen as critical of Sisi's coup, while BuzzFeed News reported that Egypt was ramping up lobbying efforts in D.C. Photo-ops and positive statements may offer fleeting satisfaction for both sides.

(Do we really need to hear her complaining about Miles's penchant for cosmetic bronzer?) But in the play's quieter moments Ms. Bacon transmits a keenly felt sense of Kitty's despair at the endless efforts — and only fleeting satisfactions — of being a competent mother, ambitious career woman, loving spouse and loyal daughter.

In "Quatre Instants" (2002), with texts by the Lebanese poet Amin Malouf, she uses an unsettled, chromatic vocal line, gracefully curling woodwind figures and string lines that begin icily and become rich and warm to portray the frustrations and fleeting satisfactions of love.

So deeply internalized is our obedience to this most capricious despot that artists create passionate odes to its cruelty, and audiences seem never to tire of the most deeply unoriginal mass spectacles devoted to rehearsing the litany of its torments, fixating their very beings on the narrowest glimmer of its fleeting satisfactions.

For those who need a little incentive, there's now internet fame and red meat (both fleeting in satisfaction).

Like many another enchantress of the public, she attained few and fleeting private satisfactions.

Her greatest satisfaction, fleeting as it was, came from bungee jumping off bridges.