What these images represent is a knowledge of the perishability of all civilizations.
Examples of prehistoric textiles are extremely rare because of the perishability of fabrics.
Kitaj has no particular interest in crooning over the perishability of the flesh.
The pictures become morality tales -- proffered with a delicately poetic touch -- about eternal beauty and the perishability of life (Johnson).
Western works are morbidly preoccupied with the perishability of the body; Eastern works take a holistic, Buddhist view of death as a passage between states of being in nearly endless cycles of reincarnation.
An installation by Ms. Nakaya, like the one she created for Ms. Brown's 1980 work "Opal Loop/Cloud Installation No. 72503," illustrates an organizing idea of the exhibition: the perishability of dance.
This is mainly due to the perishability of much of the material (e.g., wood, tapa [bark] cloth, basketry, and featherwork) and the dispersion that took place during the era of European contact, when such items were traded for firearms, liquor, iron tools, and trinkets.
However, the perishability of goods is a realistic phenomenon.
The timing of market access is crucial in milk production due to the perishability of the product and also due to the frequency of milk collection.
Fruit ripening and softening involves irreversible physiological and biochemical changes which contribute to the perishability of the banana fruit.
