Sentence examples for momentary thing from inspiring English sources

"We conceived of it as a momentary thing, as a rush of energy, to help get the city going again," Bonevardi said.

"Washington is dysfunctional politically, and it is not just a momentary thing," Rahm Emanuel, who gave up being the president's chief of staff to become mayor of Chicago, told me.

It was just a momentary thing, no one planned anything there was no pre-rehearsal or getting together ― when this happened it simply exploded.

That is, they are momentary things".

In tone, too, this was largely a monochrome performance, except for some movements in which Mr. Schepkin found one line to pick out with a sober continuity while more momentary things were happening around it in livelier and brittler style: the final prelude, in B minor, was an example.

Then, Japan's economic superiority was seen not as a momentary or cyclical thing but as something inseparable from its "model".

Not so long ago Mary Lou Lord was a momentary next big thing, surrounded by hype that threatened to obscure her delicate voice and subtle songwriting.

Images like these don't capture the momentary actuality of things the way photographs do, but they tell much about what people were feeling: determination, grief, euphoria, agitation, longing.

The term vināśitva ("perishing", "perishability") has been interpreted by all major modern writers as showing the reason in an argument for momentariness, as if the argument was that things are momentary, because they perish spontaneously.

Hence at the time when the mental consciousness delivers it judgment, the perceptual cognition no longer exists since all things are momentary.

At some point, you have to stop blaming these things on "momentary lapses of judgment" or whatever the excuse du jour is.