Sentence examples for transitory place from inspiring English sources

"Dubai is… after all, a lonely, transitory place.

She embraces Tijuana as a vibrant, transitory place where everyone is always asking where you are from.

a transitory place where people have tended to stay only until they can afford to move someplace else". Proponents of the empowerment zone say its creation would help buck that trend by attracting new businesses--and jobs--to the area.

In it, Auge describes how, in western society, we spend an increasing amount of time in transitory places like airports, supermarkets, and highways, places that might create the illusion of fellowship and commonality but actually confine the individual to a state of anonymous solitude.

The conceit opened my eyes to the fact that the world my world was as transitory a place as Norton's Nineveh or ancient Rome.

This domain was a transitory space and time for the souls of the dead and could not properly be called "hell" in the Christian sense of a place of perpetual punishment for a permanent, unchanging self.

He says: "Both HK and Singapore are seen as transitory destinations; places to get your career on track (research funding is pretty generous here) and then to move on from.

It is a transitory sort of place, but it has its unique charms.

One might say that knowing there is a way out of the city at any given moment makes it a melancholy and transitory sort of place.

And if the places were transitory, the events - the history - were as insubstantial as a recollection the morning after.

We're about the common goal, not about jostling one another for a place in a transitory spotlight.