transience


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Synonyms for transience

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for transience

an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying

the attribute of being brief or fleeting

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But it doesn't take an awful lot of time for the viewer to get the hang of Gillani's creative streak, which is mainly to do with the transience of things that he refers to.
Tonight the plucky Watson family takes on the Maze, once Richard has finished contemplating the transience of life.
This celebration of vinyl speaks to the transience of pop culture and its intersection with everyday lives.
Captured by Wolfgang Tillmans--whose broad-ranging retrospective at Tate Modern in London is currently on view--the picture seems to register movement and transience in the background, yet it is uncannily sharp and static in the foreground.
For his upcoming solo show, In the Blink of an Eye, at Art Underground, the painter experiments with the transience of image, making each work appear whole only in the temporariness of painterly strokes.
Above all, "Silk Road" is a chronicle of impermanence, in which the narrative--on one level a series of adventures in which places and events change, and bonds between people are formed, developed and severed becomes, on a deeper level, an examination of transience, as the protagonist searches for meaning and permanence to the farthest ends of the earth, but is able to find it only when he returns home.
The term "technology transience," however, differs from such terms as "instructional technology" in that it indeed does refer to hardware and software components, and more specifically, the nature and length of the lifespans these technologies experience.
Butterflies flick over the maze but the daffodils are now dying reminding me of the transience of Nature.
She's especially drawn by the "fleeting and fragile nature of flowers" and their symbolic relationship to human transience. Walsh has a new show, "Transformation," at The O'Brien Photo Imaging Gallery, 2833-B Willamette St., with an opening reception from 3 p.m.
These still-life paintings depicted material possessions side-by-side with objects like the skull clock and flowers that symbolized death and the transience of life.
Berlin, Germany, June 13, 2014 --(PR.com)-- "One is ever conscious of the transience of all things, and of nature's smiling indifference, also that art is but imitation of nature.
Two death sentences, though in two different regions and under different circumstances, have nevertheless provided a sobering spectacle this week, making one aware of the transience of human life, ambition and power.
Andersen explores the implications of global transience for organizations and organizing, focusing on the relationship between organization and employee.
Such impermanence has costs for the immigrants and society as a whole, argues Ratna Omidvar in a Globe and Mail opinion essay: "By focusing on the temporary, we create transience. This discourages temporary residents from integrating into their communities and forming an attachment to Canada.