| 单词 | transitoriness |
| 例句 | Another glossary entry reads: "Fireflakes: the stars; as transitory as snowflakes only their transitoriness is protracted." Things That Are by Amy Leach – review 2013-06-07T08:00:15Z "It catches perfectly the play's melancholy and preoccupation with time, transitoriness and loss," says our own Michael Billington, "even if it cannot efface golden memories of the one he did at Stratford in 1958." What to say about ... Twelfth Night 2011-01-20T17:11:23Z Such writers suggest the radical path to happiness comes from recognising the inevitability of unhappiness that comes as a result of the human birthright, that is, randomness, mortality, transitoriness, uncertainty and injustice. The best form of self-help is … a healthy dose of unhappiness | Tim Lott 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z But if there is one thing I can say about Ohio, it is that nowhere I’ve lived possesses such a sense of transitoriness. How the Depressed Find Solace on Yik Yak, Believe It or Not 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Burns associated their evanescence with the transitoriness of sensuous gratification:—“they flit ere you can point their place.” Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z The reflections are such as are common to all who have in all ages pleaded for the higher life under whatsoever form, and deplored the frailty and transitoriness of man's earthly estate. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z "It sought to wean mankind from the pleasures and vanities of life by pointing to the transitoriness of all human enjoyment." The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z This is through and through nothing else than the constant change of matter in the fixed permanence of form; and this is what constitutes the transitoriness of the individual and the permanence of the species. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z It was impossible to do such things comfortably after a day's ride and with the feeling of transitoriness engendered by a short night in camp. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z It is therefore possible that in other cases, when no such stage has been observed, it not really may be absent, but, from its transitoriness, may have hitherto escaped attention. On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects 2011-12-05T03:00:46.667Z We feel all the melancholy of autumn in thinking of the greatness and of the transitoriness of human happiness. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z The little house, only one storey high, which in its best days contained, at the most, five habitable rooms, was a lamentable picture of transitoriness. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Even while he spoke the words which would have once wrung his heart, he was visited by that strange flashing sense of unreality, of the insignificance and transitoriness of Angelica's existence. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z Somehow it made me feel sad to hear it, and a sense of the transitoriness of things came over me. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z Now these thrilling notes seem to lament the transitoriness of all earthly things, and to complain of the dreadful ordinations of heaven. The Student-Life of Germany 2011-07-03T02:00:09.143Z But his ill-fortune and his sickness had robbed him of the pure feelings of youth, and opened for him instead of it a view into the transitoriness, the discontinuity, of man's existence. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z So thinking, he contrasts its permanence with the transitoriness of human life, meaning the life of the generations of individual men and women who have listened to it. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z We hear a good deal of lovers' quarrels, and of the transitoriness of love. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z The old were re-living the past, as well as the young, and all had an unconscious feeling of the transitoriness of these tender and careless hours. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z Its every stone is a sermon on the transitoriness of human enterprise and the vanity of worldly hopes. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z The broken spout is a brisk reminder of the transitoriness of coffee-pots and of life. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z Among the most famous philosophical passages of Shakespeare is the one in The Tempest describing the transitoriness of this world and ending with the famous line about our life being rounded with sleep. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z The individual flower, the grass or leaf of any one day or spring-tide, becomes the type of the transitoriness of beauty and youth and life. Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) 2011-05-28T02:00:21.687Z The early monastic writers dwelt upon the idea of man’s mortality and decay, and the transitoriness of human rank and pleasure. Erthe Upon Erthe He realizes the value as well as the transitoriness of that youth and beauty which hitherto he had accepted as a matter of course and as a permanent possession. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" The reflection of Parmenides takes its rise from observation of the transitoriness and changeableness of things. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy It was the opening of a poem by Herrick or Horace before the prescience of transitoriness has marred the exultation with melancholy. Carnival Like De S�nancour, he had a strong sense of the transitoriness of what is transitory, and a passionate preference for all that the human mind conceives to be relatively or absolutely permanent. The Intellectual Life In so far as man relates himself to God, he cancels all finitude and transitoriness, and by this feeling frees himself from the externality of phenomena. Pedagogics as a System One's heart goes out to those who suffered long years ago, whose love of the earth, of life, of beauty, was perpetually overshadowed by the pain that comes from realising transitoriness and decay. The Thread of Gold Dost thou not feel the transitoriness of it all—yea, even of this solid-seeming terrestrial plain and yon overhanging roof and the beautiful lights set therein for our passing pleasure! Dreamers of the Ghetto He was a quick, slight child, with fine perceptiveness, and a cool transitoriness in his interest. The Rainbow It is true that scarcity of moisture would account for the scantiness and transitoriness of snowy deposits easily liquefied because thinly spread. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition While tragedy196 precipitates the conflict of hostile forces, comedy, rising serene above folly and all indications of transitoriness, reconciles inconsistencies, and lovingly coaxes them into harmony with the true and the absolute. Jewish Literature and Other Essays The picture contains transitoriness, finiteness, yet also a vista of new formation, new land. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 3, May 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature But Sterne, though acknowledging the transitoriness of life’s pleasures, denies Young’s deductions. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century We often have occasion to observe, in watching the course of human affairs, the frailty and transitoriness of things apparently most durable and strong. William the Conqueror Makers of History The Apostle adds the other thought of the transitoriness of sorrow, and yet further, the other of its necessity for the growth of humanity. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Here Heraclitus is not primarily drawing attention to the transitoriness of earthly things, but to the splendour and majesty of the eternal. Christianity As Mystical Fact And The Mysteries of Antiquity "I am permanent so I cannot fully understand the tragedy that haunts humans from their birth, the tragedy of their own transitoriness." Still Jim This keen sense of the transitoriness of everything earthly is a strongly-marked feature of the Oriental mind, and characterized all their saints and mystics. Mystics and Saints of Islam They have that delicate poise of beauty, like the lighting of a butterfly on a bending flower, that adds to our delight the keen sense of its transitoriness. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 The latter theory, with such supposed expedients in nature, to carry out the mighty design of creation, belittles the subject by its transitoriness, and is, therefore, unworthy the conception of modern generations. The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The basis of all romance is ephemeral in its66 nature, and in no people in the world do we find so great an element of transitoriness in pleasure-taking as in the Viennese. Europe After 8:15 Those who take this view of the pettiness and transitoriness of man compared with the vastness and permanence of the universe find little in the beliefs of savages to alter their opinion. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia Here we are far from all vapid and artificial sentiment; we have philosophical meditation proceeding from the profoundest source of the pathos of human life, the transitoriness of man and his works. The Youth of Goethe The transitoriness of a sunset glory, or of human life, is rife with poetic pathos because it is a transitoriness which cannot be helped. The Amateur Garden Episodes, at once moving and marvelous, at various stages of His ministry, are recounted, and the transitoriness of worldly pomp, fame, riches, and sovereignty, repeatedly and categorically asserted. The Promised Day Is Come It seems to lack the element of time or transitoriness. The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919 The German shows more solidity of person, less transitoriness and lightness about the figure, and the nose is blunter. Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance It has been called the law of transitoriness in instincts. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals How vividly, how unmistakably this knowledge brings home to us the great doctrine of M�y�, the transitoriness and unreality of earthly things, the utterly deceptive nature of appearances! Occult Chemistry Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements But there comes a time to every sensible and earnest young heart when it realizes the transitoriness of all earthly things, and longs for something on which the heart can take hold and rest. Letters to a Daughter and A Little Sermon to School Girls When the Buddha enlarges on the evils of the world it will be found that the point most emphasized as vitiating life is its transitoriness. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 He fenced with the idle inquiries of the Territon brothers; he calmed Mrs. Lane's solicitude with soothing words; he put Morewood off with a sneer at the transitoriness of love-affairs in general. Father Stafford In fact, the law of transitoriness has little chance of individualized application in the schools. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals We may regard the spiritual world as endless duration opposed to transitoriness, as infinite extension opposed to limitation in space, or as substance opposed to shadow. Christian Mysticism Life is of little value to the possessor, they say, where nature makes it a burden, and where its transitoriness is constantly being thrust upon us. New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments Whatever the origin of the idea may have been, its root in post-Vedic times is a sense of the transitoriness but continuity of everything. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 He paused and then went on, finding in the unfamiliarity and transitoriness of his visitor a freedom he might have failed to find in a close friend. Mr. Britling Sees It Through I have spoken of it already, apropos of the transitoriness of instincts. Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals The sad old face and the cold glitter of his stars roused in me nothing but petty, cheap, unnecessary thoughts of the transitoriness of everything earthly, of the nearness of death. The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories Everything in the world is transitory, and that transitoriness is absurd! Love He accepted the popular welcome with full knowledge of the transitoriness of the present enthusiasm. The Life of Jesus of Nazareth And this idea of transitoriness prevails so generally among the Arabs that the salad-seller recommends his transitory wares to pious folk by calling, "God is that which does not pass away!" The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala One reason why the facts of delayedness and transitoriness in instincts have been so generally accepted without being thoroughly tested has been the belief in the recapitulation or repeating by the individual of racial development. How to Teach Death, and Life, and the majesty of God, and the transitoriness of human glory—upon such themes he speaks with an organ-voice which reminds an English reader of the greatest of his English contemporaries, Milton. Landmarks in French Literature Above all, he will deliver himself from the jargon of modern criticism, and escape the danger of producing poetical works conceived in the spirit of the passing time, and which partake of its transitoriness. Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold In accordance with this belief, they expressed in their dwellings the sentiment of transitoriness and vicissitude, and in their tombs the immortality of calm repose. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator Time, and the transitoriness of all things, are merely the form under which the will to live, which as the thing-in-itself is imperishable, has revealed to Time the futility of its efforts. Essays of Schopenhauer So long as this was accepted as explaining the development of inborn tendencies and their order of appearance, transitoriness and delayedness must necessarily be postulated. How to Teach It is well that the transitoriness of the goods of this world is not only preached, but is learnt by experience. Germany and the Next War He was one of the few people who was acutely conscious of the transitoriness of life, and how necessary it was to make the most of it. Of Human Bondage Truly, a motley assemblage, and one well calculated to impress the beholder with the transitoriness of mortal fame. Canadian Notabilities, Volume 1 Every thing earthly possesses a character of insignificance from its transitoriness, while every heavenly object becomes inviting on account of its durability. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I It must redeem it for ever from transitoriness and evanescence. Drum Taps But it is not the relativity of art confounds me; its transitoriness, again its brevity, its dust and ashes—that is what robs me of faith and courage. The Jew and Other Stories The transitoriness is the same, and the eternal consequences are eternal alike in both; and yet there is a very solemn sense in which the one man's life has utterly perished, and the other's abides. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Worldliness, sin, unbelief, sense and its trifles, time and its transitoriness, blind the eyes of our mind; and we need those of sense to be closed, that these may open. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII The two clauses, then, of my text suggest substantially the same thought, and that is the persistence of joy and the transitoriness of sorrow. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms But a little incident occurred on their return, that was rather calculated to show the transitoriness of earthly joys. Dahcotah Life and Legends of the Sioux Around Fort Snelling Perhaps it is through those fancies that one feels the transitoriness of other things. Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough There is such a one dead, such a one is departed; it is because they do so little consider both the transitoriness of themselves and their neighbours. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 "We speak," says the author of Vimalakirtti-nirdeca-sutra, "of the transitoriness of body, but not of the desire of the Nirvana or destruction of it." The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan Their existence is no guarantee of their permanence, rather is it a guarantee of their transitoriness, unless we earnestly stir up ourselves to their renewal. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms The influence of a great water flowing from darkness into darkness was strong upon him; he was seeking for a hope in the transitoriness of all things earthly. A Life's Morning He began to pluck courage from his very melancholy, and hope from his reflections upon the transitoriness of life. Huntingtower Other and new images have thronged between; we learn at length the transitoriness of all earthly things, even to our grief, and, therefore. Undine Generations of searchers after immortality have chiseled their names in the rock platform, and one who sits there now falls to musing on the vanity of human nature and the transitoriness of fashion. Their Pilgrimage The violence of the storm has been counterbalanced by its transitoriness. A Changed Man; and other tales In these English farms, if anywhere, one might see life steadily and see it whole, group in one vision its transitoriness and its eternal youth, connect—connect without bitterness until all men are brothers. Howards End In these English farms, if anywhere, one might see life steadily and see it whole, group in one vision its transitoriness and its eternal youth, connect--connect without bitterness until all men are brothers.� Howards End The transitoriness of their evil triumph, the eventual rally of the nation against them, was the final victory of the spirit of Lincoln. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War |
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