Sentence examples for passing joys from inspiring English sources

The overall mood, despite passing joys, is increasingly poignant.

Her paintings exude an alertness to subtle, passing joys.

Anthony notes that the scene shows the monks "saying farewell to worldly things, drinking deep of passing joys".

I'm not sure I believe the scene, yet the belief that it enshrines feels true; the monks are saying farewell to worldly things, drinking deep of passing joys.

This is a story that explicitly counterpoints the passing joys of youth and love (here called the "lovely things … that didn't endure, and the lovelier for that") with that unending glorious earth, the only thing left, now that the sea of faith has retreated.

The passing joy of "Passengers," as directed by Morten Tyldum, isn't at all in the ineffable story but in the drolly conceived quasi-documentary details of space travel — the mechanized and economically stratified delivery of breakfast foods, the chrome-plated robot waitstaff with their French accents, the holographic greeters, the swimming pool with a cosmic view.

If time expands in Vermeer's painting of longing, this photograph preserves the fragility of a brief passing joy.

Musicians who are curious about their folk legacy (the real one) have been discovering its joys, and are passing that joy along to a whole new generation of young people.

Let the people take heart and hope everywhere, for the cross is bending, midnight is passing, and joy cometh with the morning.

But we passed Shah Joy without incident, and soon could see the ancient mud fort that sits on a hill above Qalat, an old market town with rocky, unpaved streets.

Immediately we began to pass out joy, via flowers, to the strangers we passed by.