Up until then, his occasional mental fogginess was always explained by something transient, like an infection.
Many other economists, however, think the economic impact will be more transient, like that of a hurricane.
It could be something very transient, like a fold in a piece of cloth, or something much longer-lasting, like a worn-away stone.
The neat, curving cul-de-sacs are bounded by dirt paths, and the subdivision, seen from above, looks vulnerable and transient, like a human colony hastily dropped on a hostile planet.
But, as Leon Wieseltier, the literary editor of The New Republic, says of The Note, "It couldn't be more transient, like all gossip; but in politics, as in finance, gossip acquires the authority of superstition".
And being on The Drag, UT's main strip of student-oriented shops, its crowds can be transient, like a bus stop or army camp.
Our data show that the Cai2+ transient, like the hyperpolarization-activated "funny current" (If) and the ACh-sensitive potassium current (IK,ACh), is an important determinant of ACh-mediated pacemaker slowing.
Some things are transient, like a friend's strong opinion or a current circumstance or pressure.
Perched on a lofty promontory, it is open to the elements and to transients like birds and squirrels, students and tourists.
Evidently aimed at a clientele of transients like myself, it went by the improbable name of the Dew Drop Inn, and cost fifty cents a night per cubicle.
In the lobby, long-term residents and transients like us sat in armchairs near an unlighted fireplace, tapping on their laptops, watched over by a fat pink girl on a swing — a sculpture.
