Sentence examples for transient thing from inspiring English sources

Team spirit is a most transient thing.

It's rare for a TV show to acknowledge that happiness is a fragile, transient thing.

There are a few highstreet goods that we all think of as having classic packaging - Marmite, Lyle's Golden Syrup, Kelloggs Corn Flakes, Colman's Mustard etc - but surely you wouldn't compare staples like these to a transient thing like pop.

It is the name of a pagan Syrian prophet whose cult spread to Greece; if we think of it today as a Greek name, it is because the division that appears to separate Arabs and Europeans is a new and transient thing.

The ease with which cash appears to be found for capital projects like HS2, the "northern powerhouse" or the Olympics suggests that money is not the issue, it's political will – or, more worryingly, political calculation that voter disaffection with the system is a transient thing that never has the same power or attraction as a low-tax economy and crackdowns on welfare.

Smith is exceptionally good at what you might call "dancefloor melancholy", something you find a lot on old disco and early house records: an odd, ineffable sense of yearning amid the euphoria, a nod to the fact that the elation of dancing in a club is a transient thing and the real world still waits outside.

Jazz says: "Cut it out; don't dream, don't worry about transient things, seize the day.

"I mean, who knows, these are all transient things, purple patches of success, and they will come and they will go as quickly as they arrive, so it's important to make the most of it".

Kilwardby argues that time and motion are exceptions to the rule according to which the parts of composite things must exist simultaneously; instead, he claims, that they are composite transient things, and the parts of time are successive (DT 7 9).

The ancient yoga and spiritual teachings stress that happiness is real only when we let go of seeking material and transient things and discover the lasting joy that is within.

Transient things do not only include the physical objects that surround us, but also ideas.