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A book not so much full of birds as full of evanescence, of blue-winged, trumpeting mysteries. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z
In some lights they were hardly there at all, just visible as a drifting quality in the light, a rhythmic evanescence, like veils of transparency turning before a mirror. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
Sparrow and Ruby threw snowballs at each other, their laughter a bit too sharp, their aim a bit too true, and Minya slipped away somewhere, promising to release the ghost, Ari-Eil, to his natural evanescence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
How could she ever have thought evanescence was kinder? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
But the tlamatinime shared the religion's sense of the evanescence of existence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z
Here was her evanescence, and it was like dying all over again. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
When humans died, their souls clung invisibly to their bodies for as long as they could—a day or two—and then they lost their grip and were claimed by the natural pull of evanescence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z
These are desserts that favor surprise and evanescence over sweetness. Around the Corner, Thai Desserts Await 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z
But Didion cares less for timelessness than for the evanescence of language, mistrusting pink icing or anything else that might launder truth. Joan Didion Revisits the Past Once More 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z
Others may be satisfied with this one’s evanescence, its haunting irresolution a reminder of our fleeting time on Earth. Review | Amy Bonnaffons’s ‘The Regrets’ puts an otherworldly spin on the breakup novel 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z
Add one more evanescence and the book’s setup is complete. Books of The Times: ‘Doctor Sleep’ Is Stephen King’s Sequel to ‘The Shining’ 2013-09-15T21:53:08Z
The result was a study in duration and evanescence. The UW mixes art and science with worldwide talent 2014-03-05T21:10:38Z
The 17th-century screen was meant to prompt reflections on evanescence and cyclical return. Takahiro Iwasaki, ‘In Focus’ 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z
Here today, gone tomorrow, they are like rare birds, seldom glimpsed, who remind us of the evanescence of all things, most of all physical beauty and the casual grace of youth. | 'Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq': The Unusual Story of Tanaquil Le Clercq, Artist and Muse 2014-02-04T22:33:11Z
A part of it is the evanescence, that it disappears. 97-year-old actor: ‘I enjoy working with other people, particularly young — well, in my case, they’re all younger than I am’ 2021-10-18T04:00:00Z
Her words flicker — strange, elegant — a Russian evanescence. Books of The Times: Poetry by Luljeta Lleshanaku, Lightsey Darst and Others 2010-07-22T22:18:00Z
This technique creates an uneasy suspension of gravity and evanescence, a sense of Bowman’s life being at once deep and slight. James Salter’s novel ‘All That Is’: looking back at a life 2013-05-15T22:59:55Z
And an actor and a singer temporarily turn a night at the theater in an anxious city into an Eden beyond worldly care, all the more precious for its evanescence. Review: Mark Rylance Returns to Broadway as a Mad Monarch to Cherish 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z
The painter Roy Lichtenstein, who died in 1997, was intrigued by the idea of evanescence, too. Art That’s Made Not to Last 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z
And yet Cults have outwitted their own evanescence with an album that’s confident and warm and purposefully naïve. Playlist: Sounds of Summer: Feisty, Moody, Chutney 2011-06-24T19:31:01Z
Light plays very different roles in two mostly metal sculptures that contrast solidity and evanescence. Review | In the galleries: Malgorzata Jablonska’s bodies of work 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z
Her work’s lack of finish conveys, like no other Impressionist, a sense of evanescence. You know Monet and Manet. This female Impressionist deserves your attention, too. 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z
A few animated sequences effectively evoke the evanescence of memory. ‘Still Life in Lodz’ Review: A Painting Becomes a Window 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z
They called him an "ultra-modernist" and dismissed his books as overrated and forgettable, just "so much unnecessary evanescence travelling first class". What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z
“It happens for three nights, and then it’s over” is a common refrain, voiced sometimes with appreciation for the form’s evanescence but more often in distress over its scarce economic resources. Trajal Harrell Dances at the Kitchen 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z
A series of duets culminating in a long solo, with overlapping ensemble passages, its taut structure contrasts with the evanescence of the music. Richard Alston Dance Company – review 2012-10-06T23:05:55Z
Perhaps that owes to its oppositional nature, and perhaps to its evanescence. A Graffiti Museum Where the Writers Are in Charge 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z
In all but the best filmed theater, a sense of something missing — evanescence, a snack bar — persists. There’s No Place Like Home (Theater) 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z
The liquid — the palest celadon — tasted like, well, Mount Fuji evanescence. | All the Tea in Paris 2011-08-25T20:20:04Z
But he argues that its “ghostly evanescence has only enhanced its fame, making it available for endless interpretations and reinventions.” Books of The Times: Ross King’s Deconstructs Leonardo and ‘The Last Supper’ 2012-10-29T18:01:10Z
The orchestra traced a course from evanescence to anger, providing the perfect summation of our national obsession with the weather. National Youth Orchestra – review 2013-01-07T18:25:30Z
He was trying to telegraph an ephemeral Los Angeles that is more of a mood or a state of mind than an actual destination: a sort of ambient melancholia, a druggy, Chandler-esque, wistful evanescence. 'Inherent Vice' goes for Los Angeles as state of mind rather than destination 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z
With that essay and others, she explores two themes — two conflicts — in particular: the impermanence of human circumstances versus the durability of art, and the evanescence of experience versus the tenacity of memory. Claire Messud Looks Back on Life, and the Art That Shaped Her 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z
Steps start off classical – pirouettes from fourth position – then acquire jazzy helicopter arms, or evaporate into a noodling evanescence. Birmingham Royal Ballet ? Pointes of View 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z
In Ms. Shick’s dances, evanescence is always a great part of beauty, but forcing viewers to choose is this dance’s hard lesson. Dance Review: Vicky Shick’s ‘Everything You See’ at Danspace Project 2013-04-19T20:20:37Z
I guess the temporariness of it, and the evanescence of it, become kind of morbidly fascinating. Robbie Fulks on how not to be “a guy in his 50s singing about sex or good times or even the opposite, about married contentedness” 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z
Limited edition is crucial to a luxury product’s success, the old supply-and-demand bathed in novelty and evanescence. What’s up with Prada’s $995 volleyball? 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z
It was a play on words and meaning and evanescence. Snowmaking is the most dangerous part of skiing 2013-02-23T13:00:00Z
It proceeds toward ideas of fragility and absence with phrases like “unimaginable froth,” “darkened erosion,” “evanescence.” Review: Cecil Taylor’s Mysteries Don’t Resolve at the 88th Key 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z
Caillebotte hangs the scattered evanescence on a sturdy pictorial scaffold, starting with the bright green lamppost that bisects the painting. The Kimbell captures 'Painter's Eye,' but it can't elevate Caillebotte 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z
Along the way there is a good deal of talk about evanescence — of summertime and everything else. Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ Ends a Funny, Political, Very Up-to-Date Quartet 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z
By the middle of 1973, the purity and power of Bowie's breakthrough had become dulled by imitation and repetition – the full stupidity of fashion or trend evanescence: here today, gone tomorrow. When Bowie met Burroughs 2013-03-09T09:01:00Z
It shares a few of the themes of Chekhov’s original, a concern with tradition and modern life, permanence and evanescence. ‘The Seagull’ Brings Chekhov’s Doleful Comedy to Cinemas 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z
And when a big anniversary rolls around, people gather to observe it — because in an art form built for evanescence, it’s important to tend to the history. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z
Always traced with ephemerality — the snow likely melted before the rendering was done — paintings of snow now record a double evanescence. What It Means to Look at Paintings of Snow 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z
That is the most the reader sees of Zelda, who is really an evanescence more than a presence. Lee Smith’s ‘Guests on Earth’: wrestling with a dark legacy 2013-12-11T18:46:43Z
What she’s saying is that, in the gloaming, past and present come together, reminding us of our fragility, our evanescence and our loss. Joan Didion's 'Blue Nights' to be performed by Vanessa Redgrave 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z
And that’s a true passion for the history and variety of theater, and an awareness of that art form’s glittering evanescence. Theater Review: ‘Uriel Acosta: I Want That Man!’ Recalls a Jewish Freethinker 2014-03-25T21:19:06Z
And he’s always thinking about death and evanescence: He describes life as “a matter of gradual subtraction,” and talks about “trying to jettison as many friends as I can.” Richard Ford’s Hero Returns in ‘Let Me Be Frank With You’ 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z
A backdrop of verdant hills and melancholy sculpture should underscore Wilder’s exploration of life’s beauty and its evanescence. Spare Times for June 13-19 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z
In ways both deliberate and unintended, the images gathered in "Shadows of a Fleeting World: Pictorial Photography and the Seattle Camera Club" are a study in evanescence. 'Shadows of a Fleeting World' reveals a hidden chapter in Seattle's cultural history 2011-03-12T02:27:00Z
They are intricate and variegated, playing with scale, with transience and permanence, with memory and evanescence. From Houston to Athens, Rick Lowe Takes His Social Sculpture Global 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z
The book’s setting 30-odd years ago comes to dovetail with that age gap’s built-in sense of evanescence. Achtung, baby: Is Jenny Erpenbeck's tale of doomed romance the new Great German Novel? 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z
People strolled about, glancing up at the delicate ceiling above their heads and out to the far shore of the basin, where still more of the trees created a distant cloud of frail evanescence. Saturday was a cool D.C. day of fog, rain, blossoms and spring 2023-03-25T04:00:00Z
Their brief and glorious friendship suggested that healing might be possible, even as Piccolo’s death at 26 warned of its evanescence. Opinion | RIP James Caan, who taught millions of American males how to cry 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z
Today, more than 22 years later, as I hear Fred’s name praised to the skies, but in terms rooted in the past tense, the reality of life’s evanescence comes home to me. Opinion | The enduring power of an independent voice 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z
The pleasures of food are already ephemeral, plates soon emptied and spirited away, but these notes have a swifter evanescence, vanishing even as we try to pin them down. The Ethereal Taste of Flowers 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z
All regular fallback options – meat, booze, cheese, socks – carry the taint of evanescence: “Dear loved one, hopefully we will last longer than this gift.” The best Valentine gift? Not having to buy one at all | Zoe Williams 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z
There’s an evanescence to many of these Western tales, as if Jhabvala’s writing turned its face away from the sun and grew obscure. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and the Art of Ambivalence 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z
The longevity of the Paul Taylor Dance Company is nearly unheard of in the evanescence of modern dance. Paul Taylor, prolific modern dance choreographer, dies at 88 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z
But if “One Sings, the Other Doesn’t” is something of a thesis movie, that thesis takes shape gently, with equal parts documentary grit and dreamlike evanescence. Review: Agnès Varda's 1977 film 'One Sings, the Other Doesn't' is a charmingly offbeat rabble-rouser 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z
Both groups are striving to locate something fundamental and immutable about Britain in an era of erosion and evanescence. Brexit is reverberating in British literature 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z
And a good haiku expresses a certain evanescence. Perspective | Here are the winning entries in the 2018 springtime-in-Washington haiku contest 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z
Appreciating life’s evanescence, exercising gratitude for each day, striving to live with meaning — these are all healthy accommodations to uncertainty. Opinion | We live in a world of uncertainty. Tech is making it worse. 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z
However you classify it, the result is an adaptation as notable for its evanescence as for its concrete reality. From 'Moonlight' to 'Manchester,' a critic marks his hypothetical Oscar ballot 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z
In his aspirational but undisciplined “You only live once” style, Trump is an avatar of those who are acutely aware of money’s evanescence. Trump has a life many aspire to. That's one reason people voted him | Justin Gest 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z
Filled with wonder for the tide and its powerful evanescence and awed by its science, Aldersey-Williams travels the world to share the mystery and beauty of “nature’s greatest marine drama.” ‘The Tide’: first-rate examination of ‘the greatest force on earth’ 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z
All of us have experienced the evanescence of the digital. When our culture’s past is lost in the cloud 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z
The distance from pushing major labor reforms to pacifying the Ohio veld seemed to indicate the evanescence of his ambitions. John Kasich vs. ‘Obscurity’ 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z
Junk is converted into treasure by memory as a way of slowing our evanescence. Geoff Sobelle's 'Object Lesson': Welcome to a hoarder's show-and-tell 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z
“Love & Mercy” is full of such scenes, in which Dano uncannily captures the ecstasy of creative gifts even Wilson himself couldn’t fathom, as well as the panic of sensing their evanescence and psychic cost. ‘Love & Mercy’ channels Brian Wilson’s angels and demons 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z
Vape occupies a similar territory, a symbol of communication’s adaptability … and its evanescence. 'Vape' is Oxford's 2014 word of the year: Why it matters 2014-11-18T05:00:00Z
Its evanescence is as much a function of short building specifications – in many cases, 50 years or less – as it is of the febrile nature of global capital markets. London’s high-rise future: thrusting, exhilarating, yet strangely insubstantial 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z
Terry Adkins, a conceptual artist whose work married the quicksilver evanescence of music to the solid permanence of sculpture, died on Feb. 8 at his home in Brooklyn. Terry Adkins, Composer of Art, Sculptor of Music, Dies at 60 2014-02-23T03:12:09Z
Decline of asceticism and evanescence of the moral notions of which it was the expression, 113. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z
The baffling evanescence of dreams caught sight of on awakening is familiar to every one. The Psychological Origin and the Nature of Religion 2012-04-24T02:00:19.043Z
Yet one day in April—an April swooning with soft suggestions, urging its own evanescence and the fleeting sweetness of life—Mr. Frederick Allen, in his London lodgings, received two letters instead of one. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z
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
Upon the evanescence of the form peculiar emphasis is also laid in this poem, through the fact that the music is improvised. Browning and His Century 2012-02-15T03:00:39.033Z
There is a mournfulness in the sentence relative to the evanescence of those sun-pictures in the Memoir by Wedgwood and Davy that is peculiarly impressive and desponding contrasted with our present notions of instability. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z
I wail to a familiar tune, of course, in this lament for the evanescence of human grandeur and the perishable renown of kings. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z
It is just this consciousness of evanescence which gives to the voluptuous and passionate art of Ajantā the spiritual significance that is all the more impressive because of its sensuous setting. Vidy?pati: Bang?ya pad?bali; songs of the love of R?dh? and Krishna 2011-12-02T03:00:26.297Z
There is something inexpressibly sad in the evanescence of music, and in thinking of the comparatively small number of compositions destined to survive their age. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z
Mr. Spencer affirms "the evanescence of evil" and the perfectibility of man, upon the ground that: "All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions." Supernatural Religion, Vol. I. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation 2011-08-30T02:00:33.183Z
Nothing stays fixed there, all the emotions are at their point of effervescence and their charm is their evanescence. The Heart's Country 2011-08-02T02:00:26.847Z
The further idea that this transcendently glorious apparition is due to mere words, to a breath—our symbol of tenuity, evanescence, impotence to influence material bulk—heightens enormously the impression of absolutely immeasurable power. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z
The landscape cannot fail to touch the soul with deepest melancholy, as we reflect on the evanescence of all human things. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z
In it the evanescence of Nature, immortal as she seems, is contrasted with the true eternal life of mortal man. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z
Of all these things the most strongly to be deprecated are strange sunlight effects, for they have the double drawback for the painter, of rarity and evanescence in nature. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z
Colours, shadows and atmospheric effects are naturally associated with ideas of transition, mystery and evanescence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z
It is the gate for us all to the lost garden of our own childhood, pathetic in every line with the evanescence of childhood, "whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu." Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z
The recession, the evanescence, of the Negro before the Caucasian is only one example among millions of the process of nature. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z
All her aspect to him, was that moment touched with an indescribable gayety, buoyancy, fragility, and an unearthly evanescence. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z
Oh, well, it is ever thus, and it is the very evanescence of things that makes them worth while. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise
The boat and her evanescence were a nine days' wonder. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories
Moreover, the contentment of that imperceptible evanescence and of their dreaming progress down the young Thames was plenary, lulling all regrets for a peace that seemed not yet truly to be lost. Plashers Mead A Novel
Galer and his 'deemagogues,' the Push, Chard and his career: very soon he would be paying a long farewell to all this world of evanescence. Years of Plenty
The figure vacillated in the gaslight, and taunted him with its perishability, its evanescence, frail, transient as childhood is transient. Fairfax and His Pride
A fervid perception of the evanescence and sorrows of life is the root of Carlyle's pathos, which is unsurpassed in literature. Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series
What an object lesson is here presented, attesting the evanescence of all mundane power and glory. The Pearl of India
Now what is antiquated and grown aged, is near evanescence. A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek
The momentary evanescence of all that imagery at a breath touches us with the thought that all it represents, steadfast as seems its endurance, will as utterly pass away. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2)
This song, of course, was a disquisition on the evanescence of all things here below. Mad Shepherds and Other Human Studies
And thus they soar from their precarious perch in existence, soar on nonexistent wings, and perch on the essence of evanescence! The Unthinking Destroyer
It causes all origins, all changes, and all evanescence. Pedagogics as a System
Madame von Marwitz resigned herself, her eyes fixed absently on the smoke curling from her cigarette as if, in its fluctuating evanescence, she saw a symbol of human folly. Tante
Is it because 'tis unsubstantial all—senseless, though fair—and in its evanescence unsuited to the sympathies that yearn for the permanencies of breathing life? Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2)
And rising from his sleep, her shadowy presence Followed his light descent Of the long stair; her shadowy evanescence Through all the whispering rooms before him went. Poems
This is one of the most beautiful circumstances connected with water surface, for by these means a variety of color and a grace and evanescence are introduced in the reflection otherwise impossible. Modern Painters Volume I (of V)
But there is in color and music a compensation for this increasing evanescence. The Rosicrucian Mysteries An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings
The Book of Job, Bismarck’s last reading, reminds him of the evanescence of all earthly glory, which passes away like the grass that is cut down by the mower. Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck
Meditate upon it, and on the insignificance and evanescence of human life. The Book of Khalid
His face shines indeed, but with a glory that fades away, so that he must put on a veil lest they should detect its evanescence. Memoranda Sacra
Total want of transparency and evanescence in the clouds of ancient landscape. Modern Painters Volume I (of V)
So before the mind the imagination hangs pictures of the glory and grandeur and God-likeness of the higher life, but one breath of temptation proves their evanescence. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character
Its very marvel lies in its spontaneity and evanescence; its power is in being struck from the present. The Wit of Women Fourth Edition
Meditate on the insignificance and evanescence of human life.’ The Book of Khalid
The result is before us in the almost total evanescence of thousands of books extending to hundreds of pages. The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
To Sterne’s further enunciation of this joyous theory of life, Young naturally replies in characteristic terms, emphasizing life’s evanescence and joy’s certain blight. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century
The permanence or evanescence of the spot would indicate the sun or earth as being the locality of such derangement. New and Original Theories of the Great Physical Forces
Could the explanation of this amazing evanescence be found there? The Fifth Ace
The very beauty of such appearances is in part their evanescence. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1
Doubtless, the reason for the evanescence of Breton's literary labours is to be sought in their estimation by many, besides the letter-writer above quoted, as barely more than waste paper. The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
Ministers sermonized about the bread, variously interpreting it as a call to charity, a warning against gluttony, a parable of the evanescence of all earthly things, and a divine joke. Bread Overhead
Man has felt the decay and evanescence of human goods. Human Traits and their Social Significance
For myself, I had no doubt of his evanescence, having already noticed that there is a kind of charm which is like a death-warrant. The Author Of Beltraffio
He knew the loveliness in a profile, he saw always the evanescences of light upon light and purposeless things. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
It has been my lot to witness the rise, decline, and evanescence of groups of authors and artists, whom it was almost sacrilegious to mention even with qualification. The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
These powers of colours are, however, varied by mist, air, altitude, and mixture, which produce evanescence; and by contrast, which preserves the force of colours by distinguishing them. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
The utter futility and evanescence of earthly goods, beauties, and achievements is sensed at least sometimes by normally complacent souls. Human Traits and their Social Significance
Nobody in any city in the world had more subtly caught the spirit of youthful buoyancy, the spirit of romantic evanescence, the spirit of midnight abandon. Europe After 8:15
And it is this very evanescence, this rainbow quality of our hill-top moments, that adds such poignant intensity to their charm. The Great Amulet
Or the evanescence of all that imagery at a breath may touch us with the thought, that all it represents, steadfast as seems its endurance, will as utterly pass away. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
One of our most gifted literary critics a while ago pointed out the poetic charm of evanescence; pointed it out more plainly, I fancy, than it has ever been shown before. The Amateur Garden
Speak of my servitude unto God, of my humbleness and submissiveness to the Beloved of God, and of my evanescence, nothingness and utter meekness to the Threshold of Baha’. Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
The angelic Voice is raised and, even as the roaring of the leviathan, soundeth the call to selflessness and evanescence. Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
A sudden sense of the evanescence of the moment roused Amherst from his absorption. The Fruit of the Tree
Lose the thought of thy particular evanescence in the thought of the universal permanence. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
But evanescence has this poetic charm chiefly in nature, almost never in art. The Amateur Garden
Much has been written of the evanescence of Reynolds's colors. Sir Joshua Reynolds A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation
But no doubt the great cause of its evanescence is that it leads to nothing, and adds nothing to our information. History of English Humour, Vol. 2
Away in the north, the streamers were shooting hither and thither, with marvellous evanescence and re-generation. Alec Forbes of Howglen
This conclusion is equally a relief from the frightful burdens of superstition, and a consolation for our own personal evanescence. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
Even so, there would have been little poetry in its evanescence if, through bad workmanship or any obvious folly, it had failed to fulfil the transient purpose for which it was erected. The Amateur Garden
So that to this hunter's wondrous skill, the proverbial evanescence of a thing writ in water, a wake, is to all desired purposes well-nigh as reliable as the steadfast land. Great Sea Stories
To his eyes she was all womanhood in surrender, yet he held back still, as a man who has learned the evanescence of joy, holds back when he sees his happiness within his grasp. The Miller Of Old Church
Her beauty had endured the siege; no guns of mishaps could affect it, but that charm of evanescence which awakens tenderness was gone. The Portion of Labor
It was no longer the springtime she portrayed, with all her plastic grace of motion, symbolizing its delicate evanescence with arch hesitations and fugitive advances, and all the playful joyousness of youth. The Black Pearl
The only poetic evanescence is the evanescence that is inevitable. The Amateur Garden
There is here no semicircular evanescence, as the specimen is rotated in azimuth. Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889
When it steps out of such opposites, it destroys without a doubt the turbidity and evanescence of ordinary commonplace life, and separates clearly the lights and shadows from one another. An Interpretation of Rudolf Eucken's Philosophy
Something exquisite by very suggestion of evanescence, caught in transitu, and held for the eye and mind to dwell on. The Other Girls
Every artist knows that between the thought that first gave rise to his design, and each one which appears in it, there are innumerable intermediate evanescences of sensation which no man felt but himself. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
An unnecessary evanescence in things we make is bad art. The Amateur Garden
In this ethereal evanescence the house Romance took the air upon the stoop. The Day of Days An Extravaganza
And those words about equality and the evanescence of worldly wealth, were indeed words of comfort for the poor, as well as for the rich. Garman and Worse A Norwegian Novel
It has the evanescence of a dream and yet all the force of reality. Success (Second Edition)
Is all great gladness haunted by this apprehension of evanescence? The Redemption of David Corson
It is undesirable, because a theoretical proof of the 275 evanescence of evil would itself give rise to the greatest of all evils. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher
But the singular evanescence of memory amongst these humans which absolutely displaces details of strictly mnemonic acquirements, except in certain directions of art and invention, has apparently precluded this. The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars
Associated words: Eurasian, Eurasiatic, Scythia. evade, v. shun, avoid; elude, parry, foil, baffle; prevaricate, equivocate, dodge, quibble. evaporate, v. vaporize, evanesce. evaporation, n. vaporization, evanescence; exhalation. Putnam's Word Book
It recalled, too, the thought of man's evanescence and the apparent fixedness of his institutions. Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899
Only, as he looked back, he was struck by the evanescence, the lack of substance, in their moments of sympathy, and by the permanent marks left by each breach between them. The Custom of the Country
To his wife's quickened ears, it was charged with lingering regret for frustrated plans and palpitant with his consciousness of life's evanescence and of the futility of his own success. Dust
Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things. The Book of Tea
So universal was this phrase, and so enduring seemed its popularity, that a speculator, who knew not the evanescence of slang, established a weekly newspaper under its name. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1
And it is not my own extremity I remember best—a vision of grayness without form filled with physical pain, and a careless contempt for the evanescence of all things—even of this pain itself. Heart of Darkness
For the quaintness of that opinion, nowadays, may profitably round the moral that there is really nothing whereto one may fittingly compare a successful contribution to "vital" reading-matter, as touches evanescence. The Certain Hour
And it is not my own extremity I remember best—a vision of greyness without form filled with physical pain, and a careless contempt for the evanescence of all things—even of this pain itself. Heart of Darkness
Zennism, with the Buddhist theory of evanescence and its demands for the mastery of spirit over matter, recognized the house only as a temporary refuge for the body. The Book of Tea
But the sun's Parthian arrows gave him a splendid triumph, more signal for its evanescence. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862
The material can cope with the eternal only in virtue of everlasting evanescence. Miracles of Our Lord
There is glory and might in this vital evanescence, this slow glacier-like flow of clothing and revealing matter, this ever uptossed rainbow of tangible humanity. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II.
It must redeem it for ever from transitoriness and evanescence. Drum Taps
In the tokonoma hangs a kakemon,—a wonderful writing by an ancient monk dealing with the evanescence of all earthly things. The Book of Tea
Don Marquis has written a poem about this exquisite appeal of the transient, calling it "The Paradox":   "'T is evanescence that endures;   The loveliness that dies the soonest has the longest life." A Study of Poetry
Do not let their evanescence tempt you to doubt their reality. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms
The evanescence of great men's work makes much of the tragedy of history. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
Misery is a guaranty of truth too substantial to be refused; else, by its determinate evanescence, the total experience would have worn the character of a fantastic illusion. Autobiographical Sketches
This result was, however, a triumph of political strategy manipulating a very transient emotion, the evanescence of which was shown in a series of bye-elections before the Conference reached its critical points. A Short History of the Great War
An evidence of the most cogent clearness, unknown to the primitive Christians, may compensate for the evanescence of some evidence, which they enjoyed. Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4.
Disappearance -- N. disappearance, evanescence, eclipse, occultation. departure &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
Its chief, nay its only claim to distinction, arises from its having produced the great ruler Hwangti, and its destiny was Napoleonic in its brilliance and evanescence. China
He saw that where life entered, it brought greater beauty, with evanescence and reproduction,—an endless fountain flow and fall. Warlock o' Glenwarlock
The total aspect of the place, its sepulchral stillness, its absorbing perfume of evanescence and decay and mortality, confounds the distinctions and blurs the details. Italian Hours
He was born to behold the self-evolving power of spirit, endless generator of new ends; a power which is the key at once to the centrality and the evanescence of things. Representative Men
In this evanescence of our contemporary architecture lies the hope for an eventual regeneration of American towns. Problems of Conduct
It was this hullaballoo that drew Cyril's attention to the evanescence of the cake of cakes. The Old Wives' Tale
Dante Gabriel Rossetti has imprisoned in a sonnet the almost intangible feeling aroused by music, the feeling of having pursued in the immemorial past the "route of evanescence." Chopin : the Man and His Music
The ghost was gone again, and its evanescence was discussed with ready wonder. Fennel and Rue
Ardours of passion could be felt as in youth without the recuperative intervals which had accompanied evanescence. The Well-Beloved
The names of new mines appear constantly and vanish almost at a touch, suggesting the fairy-like evanescence of their riches. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866)
For myself I had no doubt of his evanescence, having already more than once caught in the fact the particular infant charm that's as good as a death-warrant. The Author of Beltraffio
Miss Gage rematerialised with it on, after a moment's evanescence, and looked at my wife with the expression of being something impersonal with a hat on. An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; an Idyl of Saratoga
As a foil to heighten its effect, he occasionally spoke philosophically of the evanescence of female beauty—the worthlessness of mere appearance. Desperate Remedies
His evanescence was so violent and swift, that this time it was all the other people who were turned into garden statues. Manalive
The trees, as if weeping at the evanescence of the life around them, shed their leaves at the faintest breeze. A journey in other worlds A romance of the future
It was like the pedal bass of an organ, steadily giving the ground tone of a requiem—the vanity and evanescence of all things earthly. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 1
Rather would I prognosticate for the lovers something perennial, "A sober certainty of waking bliss," to survive the evanescence of love's young dream. Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things
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