| 单词 | evanescent |
| 例句 | In the evanescent delicacy she felt something as profound as she’d felt close to the bear. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z They are not just tiny and swift but also often tantalizingly evanescent. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But first they were unmade, their edges fading like the evanescent white bird, Wraith, as it phased through the skin of the sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z At multiple depths, as far as I could see, there were evanescent trails of phosphorescent green bubbles, the wake of speeding fish. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Every man, woman, and child who had died in Weep since...since when?...and passed near enough the citadel in their evanescent journey for Minya to catch. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z If we were shrunk to the level of the neurons, we might witness elaborate, intricate, evanescent patterns. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But what this reveals, particularly in the snowflake paintings, is an evanescent beauty very much like the delicate shapes that pass through ocean foam. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z The implicit plea not to be forgotten applies not just to the villagers, soldiers and horses portrayed here, but also to theater, as an evanescent art that lives on only in audiences’ memories. | 'War Horse': A Boy and His Steed, Far From Humane Society 2011-04-15T02:01:02Z Otherwise, a video tribute to the production’s evanescent glory is the best its company could hope for. Theater Kids Trade a Big Stage for Highlight Tapes and Heartache 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z The problem was how to find a way to get at something so evanescent and powerfully evocative. Spencer Finch Turned to the Heavens to Honor the Dead 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z Specifically, the movie evoked that evanescent moment when the piñata’s gaudily colored candied contents fly in the air, right before scattering to the ground in an unholy mess. In Cannes, Filmmakers Contend With Despair and Beauty, Too 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z An evanescent realm of hedonism where nothing has enough substance to be grounded by the laws of nature, the “floating world” — or ukiyo, in the original Japanese — is hardly a new target for Amis. ‘Lionel Asbo,’ by Martin Amis 2012-08-18T00:06:07Z All we have are people's memories of the event, and viewers often misremember what they see on television, an inherently evanescent, momentary form – especially in those days before domestic video recorders. David Bowie misremembered: when Ziggy played with our minds 2012-07-06T08:30:01Z The tiny, evanescent scherzo and breathtaking prestissimo finale both introduce quarter-tones, giving a fuzzy strangeness to some of the harmonies. NYO/Bychkov 2010-08-08T11:33:00Z One of the most remarkable works here attempts to capture the evanescent in nature. Art Review: Armory Show, Modern and Contemporary, at Piers 92 and 94 2012-03-08T23:15:02Z “The Mustang” is direct and almost perilously familiar — it draws from both westerns and prison movies — yet it is also attractively filigreed with surprising faces, unusual genre notes and luminous, evanescent beauty. ‘The Mustang’ Review: Where the Wild Things Roam. And Sometimes Break Out. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z The mind receives a myriad impressions — trivial, fantastic, evanescent or engraved with the sharpness of steel. Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z The applause was rewarded with an encore, an excerpt of Prokofiev’s “Cinderella,” wafting by like a pretty dream, an evanescent illusion. The St. Petersburg Philharmonic moves beyond cliches 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z How to resurrect a comic book Memory is evanescent. How to resurrect a comic book 2012-05-23T00:00:00Z Movie people are nomads, ever on location, forming alliances and liaisons that are as intense as they are evanescent. Somewhere: Sofia Coppola's Hotel California 2010-09-05T17:20:00Z McAvoy, who plays the evanescent Morpheus, said that the demands of the role varied from episode to episode. Sweet Dreams: Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman Becomes an Audio Drama 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z The design, like the name, plays off the fashionable idea that culture should be both grand and provisional, spectacular and temporary, awe-inspiring and evanescent, like a giant dance party or an epic flash mob. Review | The Shed is the only reason to go to Hudson Yards, New York’s most hated new development 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z An artist himself, O’Hagan exalts Anne’s evanescent truths of vision and perception, the ones that she captured in her old pictures, over the suspect truths of ideology and patriotism. ‘The Illuminations,’ by Andrew O’Hagan 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z In both cases Viladrich makes you feel just how extraordinary it is to capture something as evanescent as a personality in a painting. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z They are full-scale charm offensives that on a good night vanquish opposing armies of cynicism and despair and momentarily turn you into a true believer in the power of that evanescent quality known as glamour. Andrea Marcovicci at the Café Carlyle 2012-10-09T21:01:11Z They may weave the same magic on moviegoers, so smartly does the film enfold this loving couple in the cocoon of evanescent intimacy. REVIEW: "The Fault in Our Stars" Earns Its Big Fat Tears 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Trying on emotions as if they were samples at a perfume counter, she flits through moods both pungent and evanescent. Review: What’s a Woman’s Role? All of ’Em, ‘Bernhardt/Hamlet’ Argues 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z For Prospero’s “insubstantial pageant,” aerial shots of tropical islands are projected onto giant white balloons, tethered to homely water bottles; the inmates sigh at such an evanescent vision of freedom. Two Ways to Bring Shakespeare Into the Twenty-First Century 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z The vocals, by the way, are uniformly evanescent. New band of the day – Picture (No 1,334) 2012-08-20T15:56:02Z But there were also moments of great delicacy, as with the evanescent pizzicatos at the end of the symphony’s Vivace non troppo movement, a quintessential Mendelssohn scherzo in all but name. Review: The Academy of Ancient Music Tackled Mendelssohn at Mostly Mozart Festival 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z Time seems stopped but it is moving on, and every glimmer of light is evanescent, flitting. George Seurat's Bathers at Asni?res: look again 2010-04-15T10:37:00Z But it’s dreamlike in the wrong way: overlong, confused and too evanescent to make a lasting impression. Review: ‘The Annotated History of the American Muskrat’ Is Worried About America 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z He had no idea how evanescent his ordinary life would be. Books of The Times: ‘The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving’ by Jonathan Evison 2012-08-27T21:49:53Z The tentative, evanescent nature of life has been a recurring theme in Mr. Eno’s work, and he rings a memorable variation on it here. Theater Review: In Will Eno’s ‘The Open House,’ Dysfunctional Dynamics 2014-03-04T03:00:03Z Even the most mystically evanescent of his string sculptures suggests blade-like sharpness, a slice through the material stuff of the world, as if to lay out an infinitesimally thin cross section under the celestial microscope. Fred Sandback, creating lines and defying boundaries at the Glenstone 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Deborah Eisenberg tells us that "the plot of a good story is likely to be a stranger, more volatile and more evanescent sort of thing than the plot of a novel". Is the short story really the novel's poor relation? 2011-03-24T11:05:40Z In place of this shifting, evanescent and endlessly creative perspective of the city, we are offered a lot of wittering about Twitter. Cities Are Good for You by Leo Hollis – review 2013-04-17T10:17:21Z But Cerrudo is clearly trying to say something about time and “the now” — how it can contract and stretch, how live dance can make us feel the evanescent preciousness of the present. Review: A Choreographer Stakes an Independent Claim 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z There are evanescent shades of lost "you" at every turn of the line. Pluto by Glyn Maxwell – review 2013-04-20T11:01:01Z The result is a rich tactility for evanescent imagery. Tacita Dean's remarkable hand-drawn cloud prints at Gemini G.E.L. 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z And yet her recollections are evanescent, unstable, because the media have taken charge of memory and forgetting. Reclaiming the Past in the Internet’s ‘Infinite Present’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Other collections of photographs documenting those years tend to focus on extremes of misery, on infrastructure breakdown, on evanescent outbreaks of colorful behavior that will disproportionately resonate in later decades. When Cars Ruled the Night: New York City, 1974-1976 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z The image of a hand-printed family tree is prominent in “Leopoldstadt,” among the black-and-white projections and photographs that hover evanescently between scenes. Review: In ‘Leopoldstadt,’ Tom Stoppard Reckons With His Jewish Roots 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z They all include a few patches of brownish-gray unpainted linen, making the complicated patterns seem even more evanescent, like static washing across a screen. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z She takes that evanescent quality further in her latest work, “Black Lakes,” presented at Danspace Project on Thursday night. Review: Katie Workum Presents ‘Black Lakes’ at Danspace Project 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z For a while it looked as if Massey would be trapped in a series of evanescent comedies. Anna Massey 2011-07-04T18:30:00Z The idea of theater as collaborative and evanescent had long since given way to a rather different image: an expensive building enshrining the taste of a single, immovable and usually white male visionary. After a Long, Starring Run, Will Racism at Last Get the Hook? 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z The result is a salutary visual grit, which anchors Hurtado’s contradictorily evanescent forms. Luchita Hurtado abstract artworks mix cultures like colors, to rousing effect 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z And while a still image proclaims permanence, a moving image is evanescent. Exhibition Review: When Pictures Leap to Other Screens 2011-01-13T21:55:50Z There is such delicacy and artistry in The Assassin, as if the film is spun from some exquisite, evanescent tissue of precious material. The best films of 2016 so far 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z Until then, her successor is a matter of key importance to the stability of an evanescent art. Perspective | Who really controls Balanchine’s ballets? The dance world deserves to know. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Turner's fascination with the extraordinary, evanescent architecture overhead, of the "parapets and turrets, batteries and bastions" that the balloonists saw, strikes a chord with us all. Flight of fancy: how aviation changed art for ever 2012-08-17T21:55:08Z Though his playing was masterful, swinging, evanescent and peppered with tiny surprises, his restraint verged on emotional distance. Review: A restrained Keith Jarrett lets the energy rise gradually 2011-11-02T20:09:04Z The album feels more like a ghostly mosaic or a mirage — evanescent, bewitching, fragmentary — than an exact telling of that story. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z “Opal Loop,” too, suggests that dance is evanescent and its interpreters ultimately unknowable. | Trisha Brown Dance Company: Trisha Brown Dance at Baryshnikov Arts Center 2010-04-10T00:31:00Z Soldiers, too, have phones alongside their AK-74s, and every day since Feb. 24 has brought another evanescent current thing. The Role of Art in a Time of War 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z At 's Manhattan premiere Wednesday night, the guests were offered free cotton candy — an apt nutritional equivalent for this movie's tasty, evanescent pleasures. DreamWorks' 3-D Megamind: That's Incredibles! 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z That life, like a ballet performance, is an evanescent thing, to be seized before all is darkness. Chase the Dream; Tales of Beatrix Potter ? review 2010-12-26T00:05:16Z “What in this world is not evanescent?” she asks. | 'The Illusion': Phantasmagorical Adventures of a Missing Son 2011-06-06T02:00:00Z And then there’s his evanescent philosophy, which Lil B calls Based: it means, well, that he can do pretty much anything. Music Review: Rap?s Pied Piper, Lil B, at Santos Party House 2010-07-26T22:36:00Z This is probably wise; the inclusion of evanescent fads might only date the work. Is the Internet Making Writing Better? 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z Often taken outside in waterfront locations, the photos capture evanescent moments and things — surf, shadows and twilight — and everyday places and people. Review | In the galleries: Exploring how body language is a visual form of communication 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Many of these evanescent would-be Utopias, independent communes and mayfly principalities hardly did more than design a flag and choose a national anthem. Review | Oh, the places you’ll want to go! Two new books offer the most magical of escapes 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z As given demented life by Mr. McConaughey, he is a welcome presence among a collection of nitwits so irremediably disposable that they’re as evanescent as drops of water on a hot wood stove. Movie Review: ‘Killer Joe,’ Directed by William Friedkin 2012-07-26T17:03:26Z "There is," Chakar said, "no such thing as collective memory": only personal, evanescent, miniature memories. Adam Thirlwell stares at graffiti in Beirut 2010-05-21T23:06:00Z Michelangelo's powerful stone sculptures speak of eternal strife, Kirchner's of evanescent, ritual mystery. LACMA landed Kirchner's 'Dancer With Necklace' through skill, happenstance 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z But you can’t take it with you, and in Zen landscapes the world to hand always appears evanescent, abbreviated. The Lessons of Nothingness From Maverick Zen Monks 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Dreamy and evanescent, they recall the opening pages of James Joyce’s “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Per Petterson’s ‘I Refuse’ and ‘Ashes in My Mouth, Sand in My Shoes’ 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z E-books are weightless, colorless, odorless and, especially at the holidays, a bit evanescent. A Roundup of Holiday Coffee Table Books 2012-11-22T19:55:15Z A fat budget can help, but more crucial still is a director who takes evanescent cinematic pleasures seriously. Review: ‘Tomb Raider’ and the Perils of Blockbustering 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Can something as evanescent as fog be described as sculpture? Review | Japanese artist’s ephemeral fogscapes transform Boston’s Emerald Necklace 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z But then Carroll adds that the peculiar, evanescent author in question is really not comfortable with strong praise — because “it is not wholesome reading.” Looking at the Birth of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice,’ 150 Years Old 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z He sees himself as an archeologist recovering evanescent artifacts. Wrapper’s delight 2012-12-16T17:00:00Z At vigorous midcentury — the time Mr. Margolies sought to catch and hold on film — his evanescent quarry was not so much Americana as it was, quite simply, America. John Margolies, Photographer of Whimsical Architecture, Dies at 76 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Cave is strongest on such moments, such perceptions, on the temporary, evanescent satisfactions of this fleeting world. Nick Cave goes the distance with 'The Sick Bag Song' 2015-04-08T04:00:00Z It’s “A Pool for Two Hours,” an evanescent dive into someone’s good life. Heaven is renting someone else’s pool 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Every gesture is sharp but evanescent, vanishing as quickly as it takes shape. Perspective | In pain and rage, a protester approached police. And then he danced. 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Next to them, the grainy, sepia photographs of the dancers and backstage crew seem poignantly evanescent. ‘Bolt,’ at Gallery for Russian Arts and Design in London 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z He made the city look at once effervescent and evanescent, a grand, rambling, energy-spitting machine dissolving into dust. Rudy Burckhardt: ‘Subterranean Monuments: A Centenary Celebration’ 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z It provided geometric structure and formal order for Monet’s untamed natural vistas, and indispensable scaffolding on which to hang the evanescent effects he sought to capture on canvas. ‘Monet & Architecture’ Review: Watching a Painter Build His Career 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z And that girls are flowers — precious, vulnerable and evanescent, to be protected from perceived forces of destruction. I Was Bullied for Being Arab. Nine Inch Nails Threw Me a Lifeline. 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z The reader encounters Bellow away from home, studying anthropology and becoming a Trotskyist, enjoying long friendships and evanescent flings, before finally marrying the first of his five wives. Early days yet 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z There is something evanescent, temporary and fragile about food. Jacques Pépin’s Food Memories 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z Sévère’s evanescent and delicate approach, abetted by the often too reticent pianist Paul Montag, was the same in both pieces, elegantly capturing Poulenc’s Gallic melancholy but proving too effete for the smoldering Brahms. Young French clarinetist in fine form in D.C. debut 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Chromatic juxtaposition of evanescent neon and luxurious paint opens up visual space. Storms of color wash through Mary Weatherford's latest work 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z At times he slipped past spoken word into something more slippery and evanescent, involving words but not structure. Music Review: The Rapper DMX Performs at S.O.B.?s 2012-02-25T00:09:39Z Certainly it made for a beguiling evening, though so light as to be evanescent, like a soap bubble. Review | A fleet and fleeting ‘Messiah’ showcases fine chorus 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Pas de deux and solos, both delicate and propulsive, offer the elegant, evanescent tracery of bodies in space. Dance Review: Collaborations Bring Cascades of Motion and Emotion 2011-07-07T22:06:58Z Delight, wonder, lust, awe — all passed, as evanescent as time, through their bodies. Dance Review: Couples? Affair, Business Edition 2011-05-17T23:40:15Z Think instead of one of the senses-stroking, sumptuous banquets or parades of sprites and goddesses that he summons as evanescent home entertainment. Review: ‘The Tempest’ Stars Sam Waterston and the Weather at Delacorte Theater 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z This commercialized, neutralized rebellion celebrating America the contingent, the evanescent, the depressing, imperiled Bill Clinton’s sweeping ambitions. Gen X vs. Bill Clinton: Cobain and Clinton, “Seinfeld” and “Simpsons,” and the ’90s fight for America’s soul 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z Everyone remembered her, but with the exception of a few minutes on tape and film, and in innumerable works of art as a model, her presence is evanescent. More Than a Muse 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z Next, Mr. Irwin wanted help producing the acrylic disks for which he would become known: evanescent convex shapes, mounted so they seemed to hover and lit from four sides to create a cloverleaf pattern. Jack Brogan, Quiet Force Behind Light and Space Artists, Dies at 92 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z Pollock, painting in the aftermath of global catastrophe, evinced an almost-primitive urge to manifest evanescent beauty from entirely new means. Pollock's stellar 'Lucifer' and impressive Anderson Collection 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Pop-Up embodies this spirit of experimentation but is purposefully evanescent and not shareable — an approach some find surprising. Pop-Up Magazine: Purposefully evanescent performance art written large 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z It was in a delicate, almost feathery mood that I sat down to watch this film: apparently set in Indonesia, probably an evanescent arthouse piece, and called, The Rain, was it … ? The Raid ? review 2012-05-17T14:29:02Z Her eccentric, otherworldly personality; her shambolic career that lurched from one inconclusive crisis to another; her ignominious end at the age of 19; and her evanescent battlefield legacy — the pure quill of misfitdom. Lidia Yuknavitch blasts Joan of Arc into outer space 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z You want the fastest, easiest way to get that pile of evanescently sweet, nubby cobs on the table, ready for butter-slathering and gleeful chomping. Corn and jalapeños add a delicious kick to this sheet-pan chicken dish 2023-08-06T04:00:00Z Sketches and blackouts are often evanescent, like an idea sketched on a cocktail napkin; some last only a few seconds yet might have been fiendishly complicated to prepare and execute. Ernie Kovacs was TV's original madcap genius. A new book tells why his influence and legacy matter 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z A key point is the abolition of the crime of abuse of office, which Justice Minister Carlo Nordio has called an "evanescent" offence that deters elected officials from making decisions and clogs up judicial proceedings. Italy launches 'Berlusconi' legal reform to bolster rights of accused 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z The evanescent “Sky Painting” did predate by a year Robert Morris’ influential atmospheric sculpture made of billowing “Steam,” and it predated by two years Judy Chicago’s first outing with ephemeral colored smoke. Review: Are just four Sam Francis paintings enough for a landmark show at LACMA? 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z More recently, her 2015 production of “The White Snake” at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre turned an ancient Chinese fable into entrancing, if evanescent, theatrical entertainment. Review: 'The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci’ is more impressively acrobatic than it is exciting 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z They remain the gold standard, the blue-chip stocks, the flowering perennials amid each spring’s evanescent annuals. Review | Why M.R. James is the Arthur Conan Doyle of supernatural fiction 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z While it inevitably picks and chooses among the novel’s plot elements, “The English Patient” retains the original’s elusive, evanescent soul. How to watch every best picture winner from 1990 through 1999 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z “A recipe is a moment in time,” he says, changing constantly in its execution and evanescent. Jacques Pépin, at 86, finds a new way to express his love — of the chicken 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z “There is a quality of civilized perception here, a sensitive and plastic handling of English prose and an ability to penetrate to the evanescent core of a human situation, all proclaiming major talent.” Frederick Buechner, prolific novelist and theologian, dies at 96 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z Yet an interest in something as ephemeral and evanescent as style is not today seen as the concern of a serious artist. Alex Katz Is Still Perfecting His Craft 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z If the granite in her image speaks to earthy permanence, the materials on its surface indicate something more evanescent. How artist Mercedes Dorame shares pieces of her Tongva heritage across L.A.’s public landscapes 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Still, the very prospect that this ruling is evanescent is what calls for paying attention to it now. Opinion | A judge calls out racial discrimination in Florida 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, the climate warrior in chief, President Biden, has inscribed his name on the ever-lengthening list of presidents who, to produce microscopic and evanescent downward pressure on gasoline prices, have tapped the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Opinion | Behold the Republican somersaults for Trump 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z That turned out to be an evanescent, politically motivated fad. Opinion | A Silicon Valley voice for the heartland 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z Companies outside of the art world, meanwhile, are using digital technology to remake timeless masterpieces as evanescent gimcracks, as projected tourist attractions and animations. What Will Art Look Like in the Metaverse? 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z “The goal of getting to zero is an evanescent one and, unfortunately, not really achievable.” Are COVID vaccine boosters widely needed? Some federal advisers have misgivings 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Still, subtle flourishes and evanescent feeling abound throughout “Flag Day,” in which Vogel’s idealized vision of her father feels simultaneously shining and impossibly tarnished. Review | Sean Penn’s ‘Flag Day’ paints a flattened picture of a larger-than-life con artist 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z I would think that if space is filled with evanescent virtual particles, they would collectively exert a huge gravitational force that would counteract expansion. Readers Respond to the February 2021 Issue 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z The humor is evanescent, but the question of legacy lingers disturbingly. Theater gets its weird back. How REDCAT and CAP UCLA shows celebrate the offbeat 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z It will also drop off an experimental helicopter, Ingenuity, which will try to fly in the evanescent air of Mars. Watch Video From NASA’s Perseverance Rover Landing on Mars 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z Political “waves” don’t happen all that frequently, and when they do, they’re often evanescent, in part because they can provoke equal and opposite reaction. Column: Trump's defeat was supposed to launch a new progressive era, so what happened? 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z But what’s most dangerous to preserving game history isn’t a physical or corporate consideration: it’s the prevailing attitude that games are playful, evanescent, and therefore not worth archiving. A new way to think about your favorite game’s code 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Made of sound, light and something like paper, “Through the Kitchen Door” is more evanescent than “Wrought, Knit, Labors, Legacies.” In Alexandria, two art installations memorialize men and women who lived under exploitation 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Supporting economic and geopolitical catastrophe is far worse than participating in evanescent Twitter mobs or even more harmful censorship. Is free speech under threat from 'cancel culture'? Four writers respond 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z As for capital spending, this was also evanescent. Column: In coronavirus bailouts of big business, here's what we should demand in return 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z A State of the Union address, even in calmer times, is an evanescent thing. Trump’s Reality-TV State of the Union Argues for Another Season 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z The lives she evokes—devoted to that most chimerical, evanescent quality “cool”—play out in a ceaseless round of nebulous achievements and vapid, exclusive parties. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z That show, to me, was quintessential Hammons—an evanescent but indelible experience, made out of nothing, with nothing for sale. David Hammons Follows His Own Rules 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z “The rise of the LP as a form – as an artistic entity – has complicated how we perceive and remember what was once the most evanescent of the arts.” Pop's need for speed: 'You have to drop new stuff constantly' 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Each project requires hundreds of professional and amateur collaborators for their evanescent realization, inviting the gaze of photographers and filmmakers, and welcoming crowds who traverse canyons, lakes and seacoasts dramatically transformed by fluttering textiles. Review: Observing Christo’s balancing act in art documentary ‘Walking on Water’ 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z Some have dismissed the play as being thin to the point of evanescent, but that may be because it doesn’t satisfy the insatiable biographical hunger for answers that these irreducibly complex figures provoke. ‘Hillary and Clinton’ playwright Lucas Hnath meticulously masters the messiness of life 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z These evanescent waves greatly enhance the transfer of heat between the objects, compared with when they are separated by a larger gap. Optical cooling achieved by tuning thermal radiation 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z The post-election moment, when victorious candidates wax grandiloquent reaching across the aisle to accomplish important things for the American people, is as evanescent as a rainbow. Opinion | Before the post-election bonhomie fades, here is one thing Congress should fix 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Here, she turns to a phenomenon even more evanescent: the storm cloud. A visceral history of dinosaurs, the world through the nose of a dog and the psychological secrets of the plot twist: Books in brief 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Most of this evanescent imagery — an estimated 90% — we don't recall, which is consistent with the idea of dreaming as purging. What Your Dreams Actually Mean, According to Science 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z But the effect, if any, of such positive reinforcement was evanescent. Opinion | Trump thinks he’s under attack. That’s very dangerous. 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Third, and perhaps most important from a business standpoint, the market impact of Trump’s tweet was especially evanescent. Nordstrom stock shrugs off Trump's tweet attack, showing he's become a paper tiger 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z Ori and the Blind Forest sees a catlike, snow-white biped with wings who darts like a sylph across the screen on a journey to revivify an evanescent forest. The 5 Best Xbox One Exclusive Games Right Now 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z On the other, we lack the ritual structures that once served to organize, integrate and preserve the stream of these experiences, so they inevitably feel both scattershot and evanescent. What We See When We Look at Travel Photography 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z In addition, it shows that returns on investment need not be that large for a company to generate growth rates exceeding the evanescent earnings-per-share gains associated with buybacks. A Simple Test to Dispel the Illusion Behind Stock Buybacks 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z The full history of daily rankings isn’t readily available, however, so we can’t be certain, and such rankings are evanescent, shifting with every tick of the stock market. When Every Company Is a Tech Company, Does the Label Matter? 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z Why are these unforgivable traits now nothing but last summer’s evanescent romance? The hypocrisy of Paul Ryan criticism: His RNC speech might have been awkward, but did he really have a choice? 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Goldberg leads with a nice gotcha, quoting Perry during his own evanescent candidacy as warning that Trump’s candidacy “will lead the Republican Party to perdition if pursued.” #NeverTrump Needs Help 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z But he questioned how "bankable" the promise of reform really was and whether the powers clawed back might disappear "like Tony Blair's evanescent opt-out from the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights". Boris Johnson questions strength of EU reforms - BBC News 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z In spite of the conversations, the language remains elusive, evanescent. In Translation 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z So the authors are forced to argue with evanescent Facebook groups or obscure junior faculty members or young people who had the misfortune to be quoted in the college newspaper. Who’s Fighting Free Speech? 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z In the course of four movements, this evanescent material acquired mass: droplets of melody and harmony precipitated from the air. Drum Solos Among the Sycamores 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z Except for those two searingly emotional — if evanescent — scenes, there is no real feeling to any of it. ‘Aloft’ floats above its characters’ feelings 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z But the homemade milk tofu under a fragrant honey marmalade is worth a try, the silky dessert evanescent on the tongue. Review: Almost Everything at the Iron Horse Pleasantville has Changed but the Name 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z It was like a lingua franca of evanescent mush, a meme of meaninglessness masquerading as communication and cool. Why You Need to Stop Saying 'Awesome' 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z They don’t regard these narratives as “just a dream,” the evanescent products of fantasy or wish fulfillment, but, rather, as genuine and sturdy experiences. The Trip Treatment 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Three of the strongest films deal with the power of intense, if evanescent, human connection. Oscar Shorts feature a platter of bite-size contenders 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z He passionately favors federal funding for universal preschool and dismisses research, based on 50 years’ experience with Head Start, indicating that its benefits are small and evanescent. George Will: Vermont’s Bernie Sanders has mountains to climb 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Many of the jobs currently being produced are part-time and low-wage, but even when the pay is good, the jobs are often evanescent — gone in a year or so. Technology disrupting the American Dream 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z Very few recordings from any era sound so clean and evanescent, as if you couldn’t pin down exactly what’s happening. D’Angelo Reborn 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z The script she performed was fixed, but her acting performance was evanescent–other than the producer’s recording. Will A 'Cast Of Thousands' Becomes A 'Cast Of Thousands...Of Plaintiffs'? A Preview of Garcia v. Google 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z What I meant instead was missing the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected: a snowfall that blankets the city and turns it into a peaceful new world. In Praise of Impracticality 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z Chat-based social networks offer an evanescent space where private conversations and silly moments will be safely lost in a stream rather than archived forever. Should we mourn the end of blogs? 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z London’s new up-thrust is evanescent, translucent and, even to those who work and live in it, strangely insubstantial. London’s high-rise future: thrusting, exhilarating, yet strangely insubstantial 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z Richard Schickel called Big Night “a movie that is both as real as food on the table and as hauntingly evanescent as its taste on one’s tongue.” Movie-able Feast: The 8 Most Delicious Films About Food 2014-05-09T15:30:32Z As we know, the incursion was an evanescent success that quickly disintegrated into sectarian violence. Powerful Black Women Shut Out From College Campuses: That's Your Legacy, Class of 2014? 2014-05-06T02:15:00Z Consider this passage describing the evanescent fading of Robinson’s prodigious skills. Thirty Years Later, Ken Dryden Updates ‘The Game’ 2013-12-17T19:09:11Z For the universities, though, the benefits can be evanescent. Remote Control: College Football’s Most Dominant Player? It’s ESPN 2013-08-24T17:26:22Z The key is to recognize that the missing details are still there, carried in 'evanescent' waves of reflected light that die away very rapidly with distance from the illuminated object. Exotic optics: Metamaterial world 2013-08-07T17:50:26.790Z It is evanescent: Much is done in its name that is not genuinely a reflection of it. American exceptionalism is a dangerous myth 2013-05-26T11:00:00Z In that case, the polarization pattern moves with it, becoming so-called evanescent waves that still attract the point charge. Turning Pull Into Push? 2012-12-10T19:30:00Z And thoughts are not like atoms or protons, uniform and durable; they are evanescent, ever-changing, slip-sliding into each other. Was James Joyce the Greatest Mind-Scientist Ever? 2012-08-10T14:16:05.290Z They are so tiny and evanescent that they flash into and out of existence in just a few trillionths of a second. Panorama: Step Inside the Large Hadron Collider 2012-07-13T08:35:23Z The lenses not only capture evanescent waves, but can also feed them into a conventional optical system. Exotic optics: Metamaterial world 2013-08-07T17:50:26.790Z Just as Thompson's represented all that was good and stable in the trade of Mallingbridge, Bence's stood for everything bad and evanescent. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z The effects of the measure, however, were evanescent. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Pod with evanescent partitions, and a thick axis bearing several anatropous seeds, 5-valved, the valves coiling elastically and projecting the seeds in bursting. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z "Because truth is permanent in its very essence; and falsehood--of every kind, as well false tastes as false statements--is evanescent," replied Colonel Manners. The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale 2012-04-06T02:00:27.227Z The word embraces nostalgia, wistfulness and a yearning for what is lost, evanescent and perhaps unattainable. Antonio Tabucchi, Elegiac Italian Writer, Dies at 68 2012-04-05T01:55:33Z He will find his wearied intelligence drowsily floundering in a sea of swimming figures and evanescent quantities, or floating amidst the fragments of a shipwrecked diagram. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z The dense ignorance of the tenth century, which followed the evanescent Carlovingian civilization, had begun in the eleventh to yield to the first faint pulsations of intellectual movement. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z The just expanding leaves are often overspread with evanescent ferruginous hairs. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z Never did the dull world below present on its diversified bosom, such grand or such enchanting objects, as those beautiful and evanescent creatures of the air, shining and shifting in the levelled sunbeams around. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z His affection had been of the earth, earthy; evanescent as frail mortality itself. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z Revivalists are much indebted for their evanescent successes to hell and the Devil. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z Though the immediate influence of Arnald of Brescia was evanescent, his career has its importance as a manifestation of the temper with which the more spiritually minded received the encroachments and corruption of the Church. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z The gravel crunched pleasantly under his feet, while the hoar-frost melting on the dark green leaves of the laurels bordered his path with a million gems as brilliant as evanescent. The New Rector 2012-03-22T02:00:35.997Z How trifling and evanescent the differences of earthly rank appear, in view of these sublime realities. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z It is quite impossible to convey in a letter scrawled literally, between the end of a late visit and a tempting pillow, the evanescent and pure spirit of a conversation of wits. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Aristotle, Ptolemy, and others appear to have held the curious notion that although everything terrestrial is evanescent, nevertheless the cosmos beyond the orbit of the moon is imperishable and eternal. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z This is exceedingly evanescent, being doubtless due to vaso-motor action, and is not often witnessed. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z She was only eighteen; it was first love; and first loves are pale, evanescent attachments. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z Not even that synthesis of the five senses, the sixth, or sex sense, with its evanescent ecstasy, cuts deeply into the darkness. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Night scenes were even more impressive, through wondrous views of the starry constellations and the recurring and evanescent gleams of the mystical aurora. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z She sat silent and still, her eyes persistently averted, quaffing deep draughts from a cup eternal, besides which even the nepenthe of the gods is evanescent. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z Frequently it is very light and evanescent, showing itself only for a few hours, and perhaps in the majority of cases it does not appear at all. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z These evanescent bits of glory lent special delight to a�rial journeyings for weeks after Christmas. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Your eternal verities, then, may be as evanescent as last year's mist. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z If the consolations of true religion are proffered, they are either spurned with anger, or merely produce an evanescent melioration. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z "The coloring is evanescent," was his mental criticism. Horace Chase 2012-03-08T03:00:09.693Z Though in many instances, as in hyacinths, they are less beautiful than single ones, they always present the advantage of being less evanescent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z But the train is wise, it knows brevity is essential to all exquisite things, so it gives its passengers only an evanescent glimpse of the glories they have just now learned to appreciate. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Again: the influence of surprise in producing the delight, is to be noted as a suspicious or evanescent element in it. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z But marry her, give way to a feeling doubtless evanescent, let himself be swayed by a fancy at which he would laugh a year later--no! Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z The examples had been sent to the Photographic Society with the hope of selling them for the benefit of the widow, but the Society was too wise to invest in such evanescent property. 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 The insurrection was evanescent; accompanied by much intermittent bravery on the part of the peasants, much imbecility on the part of the leaders, awful retribution on the part of the Hessians and squireens. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z It was a Pandemonium--but one whose horrors were evanescent. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z How lightly deed or word destroys That evanescent charm! A Little Book of Old Time Verse Old Fashioned Flowers 2012-02-13T03:00:15.823Z But the glory which irradiates the head of the Reformer far outshines that of the hero of Bannockburn, for the latter is earthly and evanescent; the former celestial and immortal. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z But chief the forest boughs, That dance unnumber'd to the playful breeze, The downy orchard, and the melting pulp Of mellow fruit, the nameless nations feed Of evanescent insects. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z The black clouds drifted rapidly along the sky, and several meteors gilded the night with their evanescent glories. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z Literature gives a voice to that within us which would otherwise remain dumb, and fixity to that which would otherwise be evanescent. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z His evanescent gayety had gone, and he was bent beneath a weight of unknown cares. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Disappointment there may be after a very cursory inspection, but it is evanescent. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z The poet moulds that which appears evanescent and ephemeral in image and in mood into everlasting values. Poems 2012-01-19T03:00:23.447Z The blood-red dashes, however, with which the elytra of numerous insects are adorned, I have constantly remarked possess a singular tendency to become evanescent. On the Variation of Species, with Especial Reference to the Insecta ; Followed by an Inquiry into the Nature of Genera 2012-01-17T03:00:21.933Z She stood, listening, every nerve tense with excitement, and still that low sobbing went on, coming from nowhere, evanescent as a dream. The Blue Lights A Detective Story 2012-01-17T03:00:19.713Z Yet they had suffered a decline—as though the constant noise of automobiles had rent an evanescent spirit. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z Happily the sounds were evanescent; in another minute Manasseh's head reappeared, mounting. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z For a moment she wondered; but the trouble was evanescent. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z The glaze after a time assumes an evanescent iridescence followed by a dull smoky appearance; finally, perhaps not for many years, it decomposes and peels off. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z The eggs, usually three in number, are mostly white, more or less splashed or spotted with faint evanescent reddish or brown shades, and are laid about the middle of March. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z From Bewdley, therefore, he moved to Buckingham—the distant threat on London producing another evanescent citizen army drawn from six counties under Major-General Browne—and Waller followed him closely. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z The first day of our arrival in Liverpool or in London gave us volumes to write, which have proved as evanescent as the pictures of a swift panorama, vanishing to return no more. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z If pop music, at its best, can be called a series of evanescent but magically eternal moments, Moogy Klingman lived the concept. Moogy Klingman, Songwriter and Original Member of Utopia, Dies at 61 2011-11-22T03:24:13Z At rare intervals a hint of the cry of hounds was carried in the wind, evanescent as a whiff from a summer garden. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z The one is as lasting as eternity; the other as evanescent as the bubble that glitters in the sunshine for a moment, and then disappears forever. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z I have forgotten all the details, of which there only remains with me the subtle perfume—too fine and evanescent for me to seize it in its passage through my mind. The Diamond Fairy Book 2011-11-14T03:00:18.297Z Marta poured out the wine, and looked at him out of her great, calm eyes, in which gleamed an evanescent smile of comfortable satisfaction. The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel 2011-11-12T03:00:35.113Z A wet glint came across the sea, exquisite and evanescent as the gleam across Di's heart. Diana Tempest, Volume III (of 3) 2011-11-12T03:00:34.213Z I have been so long exiled from the style of society in which I spent the better part of my life; it is an evanescent pleasure, but I will enjoy it while I can. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z All that is terrestrial in us, all individualities, are evanescent, passing from one form into another. Nature and Culture 2011-11-17T03:00:34.107Z They are neither divine nor eternal, but are human and evanescent. Notes on the Book of Genesis 2011-11-05T02:00:10.317Z And you, I am sure, will pardon me for using this opportunity to render to his cherished memory this slight and evanescent tribute. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z We cannot spoon out the sparkles of sunshine as they shimmer on the wavelets of water; but they are there, moving in all their golden life and evanescent grace. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z O fleeting wonder, glory of a night, Only less evanescent than the gleam That marks the lightning's track, or some swift dream That comes and, vanishing, eludes our sight! Authors and Writers Associated with Morristown With a Chapter on Historic Morristown 2011-10-25T02:00:25.713Z They are what shape political life in their nations far more enduringly than the smooth-tongued Tweeters and Facebookers --such as those in the Hazare movement -- whose revolution, however evanescent, will always be televised. Frustration Builds in China, India 2011-10-23T23:22:01Z The second is, by faithfully declaring the evanescent and shakeable nature of "things on the earth." Notes on the Book of Genesis 2011-11-05T02:00:10.317Z The first to feel the assault was the front-runner of the moment, Herman Cain, who is struggling to prove that he is a serious contender and not merely another evanescent phenom of this election season. Wonkbook: 9-9-9 under the microscope 2011-10-19T12:05:04Z To conceive of such an entity we must imagine a material that is more evanescent than any known gas, even in its most diffused condition. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z Turning them in the light, one sees under the sheen of silky hairs the varied and evanescent hues that glow in a Hungarian opal. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z But as all human greatness is evanescent, the fame of the family for charity once unparalleled in the annals of Bengal has long since dwindled into insignificance. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z The dark shadow of the cross of Jesus may be seen by the eye of faith, looming over all the glitter and glare of this evanescent world. Notes on the Book of Genesis 2011-11-05T02:00:10.317Z The most evanescent of these drugs is amyl nitrite. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z The drunkard is destined to suffer in the drunkard's eternity, as you have suffered; the enticement of drink is evanescent, the agony to follow is eternal. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z So evanescent, so delicate was this still-born haze that the crater cloud was only softened, not eclipsed. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z Her friends were few in number, and their friendship was of an evanescent description. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z A dozen pieces were instantly pointed at him by the disappointed party; but he with another loud laugh darted into the scrub and, before the report of their guns was heard, was evanescent. Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter 2011-09-30T02:00:17.137Z A rainbow was spanning the Upper Falls, and its brilliant, evanescent promise seemed to reflect in the face above. In a Mysterious Way 2011-09-25T02:00:17.377Z We hold within ourselves a certain amount of energy, which, an evanescent form of matter, is the opponent of Time. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z Did he have that rugged strength, that abiding faith, that eternal consciousness, that lasting affection beside which the rocky paths he often trod were things transient, perishable, evanescent? The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z As she stood there against a white column, she looked as faultless and as evanescent as the sunbeams, and for the first time Sloane's face lost its coldness and austerity. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z At night the descent was just as sudden, but my pen would fail did I try to describe the evanescent beauty of those glorious sunsets. Annie o' the Banks o' Dee 2011-09-12T02:00:26.230Z As far as the eye could reach there was nothing but brown country—the great Northern plains stretched into infinity and looked upon this evanescent emotion much as the Sphinx surveys the shifting desert sands. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z We can tell the “why” and the “wherefore” of the rainbow’s evanescent hues, but who shall investigate the laws that determine the fixed colours of the animal and vegetable creation? The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z The storm swooped down with sudden fury while we were watching the steam jets in the Mammoth Paint Pot throw evanescent lilies and roses in the coloured mud. Down the Yellowstone 2011-08-29T02:01:06.730Z So vivid yet so evanescent was the light on the meadows that Caroline stopped her work, lest a stir or a sound might dissolve the perfect hour into darkness. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z There is, besides, a natural feeling of loyalty, which, though it may be evanescent, hardly fails to be kindled in the breasts of the populace, at the sight of their native sovereign. Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume I (of 2) 2011-08-14T02:00:25.307Z A rhyme to the eye is a sorry thing at best, and it is sorriest when it depends on an inaccurate and evanescent orthography. Americanisms and Briticisms with other essays on other isms 2011-08-12T02:00:23.033Z Sir Watkin forgot that p. 28the beauty of a woman, when she takes to drink and low company, is of a very evanescent character. Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z And because it is spiritual, not objective, the most beautiful, if the most evanescent of all earthly things, is colour. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z To the poet the intangible and elusive is the real, the evanescent is the stable. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z He had not soiled her with the pitch alleged: the marks she bore were the evanescent black and blue of the necessary grasp. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z A rim of pale yellow appears—the sand-dunes that line the coast—and dimly beyond a grayish film, evanescent, flashing—the North Sea. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z How evanescent are their joys in contrast with the eternal blessedness of that bright circle of seraphic intelligences! A Discourse on the Evils of Dancing 2011-07-10T02:00:22.780Z The key to controlling and focusing sound is to look beyond normal waves to 'evanescent' waves, which exist very close to an object's surface. Soft-Drink Cans Focus Sound Waves to a Point, Beating Diffraction Limit 2011-07-08T18:15:00.487Z "For my part, judging from my personal experience," said the laird, "speeritual impressions are most evanescent." A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z If thou dost not obey God, the foundations of thy government shall be razed, and thou shalt become evanescent—become as nothing. Bahaism and Its Claims A Study of the Religion Promulgated by Baha Utlah and Abdul Baha 2011-07-04T02:00:25.783Z Spirituality does not light it; evanescent dreams are its oil-lamps, often with wick askant in the socket. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Beatitude: A rare and evanescent mental state caused by the reception of money that one has not earned. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z Crucially, many of the resonances emanate from the can openings, which are much smaller than the wavelength of the sound wave, and so have a similar nature to evanescent waves. Soft-Drink Cans Focus Sound Waves to a Point, Beating Diffraction Limit 2011-07-08T18:15:00.487Z The mode fields have “evanescent tails” that penetrate the surface of the ring and probe the surrounding medium. Tiny Ring Laser Detects and Counts Nanoparticles 2011-06-29T14:12:00Z Happily, her bright brown eyes had a glint of humor in them, for Winifred’s wrath was an evanescent thing, a pallid sprite, rarely seen, and ever ready to be banished by a smile. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z The old tree of life was a tree of sorrow, and had its roots in the evanescent earth, and at its base sat the mournful Destinies, ready to cut the thread of human life. Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z A little added dignity is always preferable to a graceful attitude in a portrait, because in nature it is not so evanescent a feature. Art Principles With Special Reference to Painting Together with Notes on the Illusions Produced by the Painter 2011-06-16T02:00:17.197Z "Envy so groundless could not but be evanescent," said Orrin, with admirable gravity. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z But the picture was merely evanescent, for as the fan grew cold again the outlines vanished. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z She does not let even man’s own spirit act upon his stable body directly, but through something evanescent before microscope and scalpel. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z Many writers, among whom were some of admirable genius, devoted their pens to fugitive objects and evanescent scenes, sure of finding an immediate reception from the sympathy of their readers. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z In the case of the more brilliant image, the appearance is immediate and evanescent. Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z There was no inducement to conceal from him the most evanescent and fugitive ideas. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z It is like the complexion of the young girls here, a miracle of evanescent brilliant softness. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z In the evanescent air of Italy, a man might as well not breathe at all, for any thing he knows of the matter. Mirror of the Months 2011-05-21T02:00:10.227Z The age of imagination has long been unfurnished of all its ingenious garniture, and yet we still catch at some evanescent hour of fancy susceptible of those 156 ancient delights. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z The essence of his philosophy, if a spirit so light; evanescent, elusive, can be said to have a philosophy, is doubt. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Generally, the only thing maidens appreciate about maidens is the heart; the evanescent charms of another's face have so little worth in their eyes, that they hardly care to mention them. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z Evil is evanescent and transitory, good is permanent and eternally enduring. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:15.900Z Its pain is not trebled and increased by anticipation, recollection, and sensibility; it is an evanescent sting, and nothing more. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z But Frank Scudamore, endowed with extraordinary chums, as favoured by chances, had little to fear from their rivalry; and one after another, on shedding their evanescent light, had disappeared from his path. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z The most evanescent shades of feeling are firmly set upon the exquisite picture. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Somehow, by sheer contrast to their evanescent quality, the sordid little room and its meager furnishings produced a depression that had not come to him since the beginning of his flight. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z It was love’s young dream—by some deemed the sweetest in life; is, perhaps, the most evanescent. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z The oppressive heat of nature drew longer and louder plaints from the nightingales, and evanescent aroma from the long flower-meads. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z Alas! it was but a dream of the people—short-lived and evanescent—to be succeeded by another long sleeps under an incubus, heavier and more horrid than that they had cast off. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z He is concerned with such temporal and evanescent things as hellfire, and a heaven which he has pictured in one of his sermons as a sort of glorified Coney Island. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z Celeste shrugged her shoulders; an evanescent sneer curled her lip, but that was all. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z It was but for a moment—short and evanescent—and again did his mind relapse into a doubting condition. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z The wheels revolved lazily and then she was off, dragging a luminous wake of myriads of evanescent diamonds. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z Its full voluptuous beauty, he recalled confusedly; dimmed by the shadows which clung to it even in the light, it looked vaporous, evanescent, the phantasm of a lorelei riding the sea-foam. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z And the missionary, the number of whose real converts, "'possessed of saving faith', may be regarded as practically evanescent", brings down this dreadful punishment on all to whom he preaches the gospel. The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, February, 1865 2011-03-04T03:01:02.750Z My mother’s grief was not of this evanescent kind. Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone 2011-03-03T03:00:50.847Z At the surfaces of objects, these evanescent waves are also produced. Most powerful microscope unveiled 2011-03-01T18:38:32Z But alas, for the fatality of human joys, all is evanescent in this world of ours; the moment of parting at last came for the lovers. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z The ripples were all aglow with the reflection of her red furnace fires, and her cabin lights sent long avenues of white evanescent radiance into the vague riparian glooms. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z And, though too evanescent to be cognizable by the senses, or the most delicate chemical and mechanical tests, it possesses, nevertheless, a most astonishing activity. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z The mad dream had been, in its nature, evanescent. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z As the name implies, evanescent waves fade quickly with distance. Most powerful microscope unveiled 2011-03-01T18:38:32Z Many of the newly created money-nobility lived but a day in their new, their sporadic, evanescent glory, and then, with a tumble of the stocks, went down head-foremost, to rise no more. The Squatter and the Don 2011-03-27T02:00:13.400Z Certainly the glimpse I had of those fair faces—especially of the beautiful countenance of Olympe—was short and evanescent as any dream could have been; but it was too real. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z I can tell you, Frank, this attempting to teach the intangible, evanescent thing I'm trying to teach Helen Denby isn't very easy. The Road to Understanding 2011-01-29T03:00:20.840Z Strikingly did the whole portray the fleeting and evanescent character of earthly pomp and power. London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 2011-01-28T03:00:22.900Z But he soon returned to his natural better taste, and altered the movement to the form in which it is engraved.325 Every decade has its own style of melody, distinctive of itself and evanescent. Johann Sebastian Bach 2011-01-26T03:00:27.060Z A strange, evanescent perfume seemed to have been left out there by beauty, wealth, and fashion! A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z Here is the evanescent charm, the touch of poetry and sentiment that pervades a thousand unpoetic and rather reserved young men. The Adventures of a Freshman 2011-01-18T03:00:12.083Z Thrown into that fountain, all sweet recollections become marbleized; so that things which in themselves were evanescent, thus became unchangeable and eternal. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z Then came another evanescent gleam of moonlight, and Alex, still with that sharpening of all her perceptions, noticed that there was a man's figure at the far end of the bridge. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z Well, but it's only a story, and, whether ghastly or lively, it's only words, which—as the proverb says—are evanescent as soap-bubbles. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z Too much is said about the evanescent nature of an actor's fame. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z "Everything here reminded me so strongly of her," said Arthur, at last rousing himself, and already ashamed of the impulse, which, like all his other impulses, was so evanescent. Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles 2011-01-01T03:00:27.980Z The doctors feared sometimes that the child might be as frail and as quickly evanescent as a bubble. Mashi and Other Stories 2010-12-28T03:00:16.890Z These cat-whiskers are merely specialized forms of such hairs as those which cover the bodies of most mammals, and which remain in evanescent shape upon the human skin imbedded in minute sacs. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z There were, of course, other loves between the first and the last —swift, evanescent shadows, leaving no traces behind them. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z For instance, trade relations and conventional institutions of whatever kind are evanescent. With God in the World A Series of Papers 2010-12-20T17:12:19.523Z The picture forms a link, primitive but palpable, between corporeal and evanescent, between the body and the spirit. An Odyssey Through the Brain, Illuminated by a Rainbow 2010-12-01T16:26:00Z Rather, it is a roiling, seething cauldron of evanescent particles. Mimicking black holes: Dr Hawking's bright idea 2010-09-30T10:54:00Z But for isolated patients, the challenge has become just the reverse: the doctor must turn away from the individual and minister primarily to that invisible, evanescent cloud. Essay: Isolation, an Ancient and Lonely Practice, Endures 2010-08-30T21:10:00Z And as evanescent but rarer still is authentic pride. One Homecoming 2010-07-22T17:41:00Z It's a community and yet the succour isn't real, the responsibilities users feel towards one another are quixotic, evanescent. What do women get up to online? 2010-07-16T23:02:00Z Gone are the days when irrational, avaricious, petty people take inordinate risks for evanescent gains. Book review: 'The Devil's Casino' by Vicky Ward 2010-04-18T04:00:00Z Instead, their role was played by evanescent photons continually popping into existence around the strong pulse. Mimicking black holes: Dr Hawking's bright idea 2010-09-30T10:54:00Z They crashed together inside apartment-building sized detectors designed to capture every evanescent flash and fragment from microscopic fireballs thought to hold insights into the beginning of the world. Large Hadron Collider Finally Smashing Properly 2010-03-30T13:55:00Z According to Bob Chavez, the CEO of Hermès's American operation, the lion's share of the company's recent sales has come from its core products, while purchases of more evanescent goods like perfume have fallen. How a Few Luxury Brands Are Thriving in the Crisis 2010-03-19T19:18:00Z Not so evanescent was the melancholy at the house of the Allans. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 It nears, it nears, it nears, and lights in your little hand, a feathery diamond, a crystallized vapour, an evanescent loveliness! Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 But the flashes, though bright, were evanescent, and he who trimmed so diligently oft felt his heart to sink. A Little World The present writer is of opinion that it will be found most convenient to treat this evanescent somite as something special, and not to attempt to reckon it to either the prosoma or the mesosoma. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" Is it because one realizes the evanescent character of these delights that a feeling of sadness intervenes? The Story of Malta "So fleeting, so evanescent, so—so—" and he would wave his arms like a grand opera conductor. The Belovéd Traitor Such vague thoughts, haunting or evanescent, are in no sense akin to that struggle between faith and unbelief, which made the poor father cry out, “I believe, help Thou mine unbelief!” An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Where one spends his energies in enriching his life, a million spend theirs on seeking to obtain what by common consent is evanescent. The Man Who Rose Again Places declining from the poles have attractive forces, but a little weaker and languid in the ratio of their distance; so that at length on the �quinoctial circle they are utterly enervated and evanescent. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments It was exasperating that now already the footfalls were dying away, that already their sensation was evanescent, that he could not with the wand of poetry forbid time to disturb this quintessential hour of Oxford. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The colours had been evanescent, and the star had set. The Tempering It is the evanescent perspective in which the facts and phenomena of the universe are seen. The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 Her earliest youth was past, and her countenance bore the stamp of a resolute soul, that has suffered, and struggled, and ended by becoming indifferent to evanescent charms. L'Arrabiata and Other Tales This degree of general harmony is indeed surprising when the evanescent character of the phenomenon under investigation is considered. Astronomical Discovery The young women at Mrs. Milliken's, who sell candy, will hand you out material sugar-plums, yet even those have but an evanescent flavor and become only memories. A Top-Floor Idyl That night I could fancy that this sea of light spoke to me, murmured in my ear, urging me to prosecute my will, ruthlessly stirring a strange and, perhaps, evanescent romance in my heart. Bye-Ways P. squamulose; s. elongated, equal, solid, ring evanescent or obsolete. perrera, Schulz. European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae Ring arachnoid, like a spider's web filamentous or evanescent. Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous Greed and vanity of the ruling powers thus conspired to make permanent in England the influence of evanescent Anne Boleyn. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History The impression made by the Sabbath ceremonies of the church strikes us as evanescent, and as of such a character as to be at once obliterated by the excitement of the worldly pleasures that follow. History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time It is possible that this beauty might be less evanescent if the animals were preserved in spirit or other antiseptic fluid. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series Such the doom and fate of human life, little episodes on the stream of time, successive and evanescent as the wavelets that rise and die against the bosom of our little craft. The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West The volva is evanescent in both, leaving traces of its existence in concentric ridges at the base, and part way up the stem. Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous The illumination at B due to P then becomes comparatively small, indeed for some forms of aperture evanescent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Margaret, whose paints were ready, began to set up her easel to sketch the evanescent effect without delay. The Head Girl at the Gables She would allow no one to live in his own thoughts; her only desire was, that the thoughts and feelings of others should be the reflection of her evanescent emotions. Waldfried A Novel Then a look of intelligence crept into his eyes, and he smiled one of those sweet, evanescent smiles of infancy. The Mountain Girl Stem hollow and floccose, narrow at top, ventricose; ring evanescent. Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous And sensing it—that evanescent, impalpable, but infinitely promising thing—she saw the future shining through the present. The Torch Bearer When, Mead said, you take them from the water, they are nothing but a little slime; evanescent as the rainbow on the spray. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday Even to the perfume of his handkerchief, the faintest and most evanescent of odours, all were mysteries that none could penetrate. Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day She disappeared; the light of her lamp faded, flickering in the draught of the hall, stencilled the wall with its evanescent caricature of the balustrade, and was no longer visible. The Destroying Angel They are often evanescent and putrescent, sometimes liquefying altogether. Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous There are perfumes as evanescent as the dreams of youth, and others as persistent as the memories of childhood. The Land of Long Ago A wood fire is an evanescent thing, having none of the calm determination of coal combustion. Lord Stranleigh Abroad There is nothing in the chemical constitution of photographs—formed as they are by the combination of the precious metals—to make them evanescent. Maids Wives and Bachelors Love was an evanescent glamour which came and passed like a cigarette, a strain of music, a wave of furious anger. Command The interest aroused by Verne's sort of story—H. G. Wells' earlier work and Conan Doyle's "The Lost World" are more recent examples—is real, but almost exclusively intellectual, therefore relatively weak and evanescent. The Technique of Fiction Writing I saw the shrug and the sudden turn of the shoulders, the curl of the lip, the evanescent flash of the eyes.... Captain Macedoine's Daughter Just like his love, fierce, threatening, grand and evanescent. The Song of the Wolf For they have not the habit of materializing into good actions; they are evanescent 304 pretenders to righteousness; they tell more flattering tales than ever Hope told. Maids Wives and Bachelors Now and then it will pull its victim by the sleeve, as it had pulled at Eden, yet turn to interrogate and a dream is not more evanescent. Eden An Episode The interest aroused by mere novelty is a matter largely of the intelligence; it tends to be evanescent because it has little or no relation to the emotional nature. The Technique of Fiction Writing Presently we come upon a spot where the earth is flecked with golden sunlight, shifting and evanescent, sifted, as it were, through the gently vibrating leaves, softly gilding the sombre drapery of the forest. The Pearl of India The flowers are pure white in colour, with a rich fragrant odour, and the plants in blossom have a lovely and attractive appearance, but the bloom is very evanescent. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" But such hours were evanescent; they were usually ended by a brisk wind, bringing peril to the little bark, and then David’s first instinct was heavenward. Prisoners of Conscience The feeding deer lifted their heads to gaze after the party with evanescent curiosity and then fell to quietly grazing again: they had not known enough of man to acquire a fear of him. The Story of Old Fort Loudon You are now surrounded by the glittering but evanescent coruscations of the more recent novels. Devil Stories An Anthology Her soul went forth into the song, and one listened in rapture, touched with pain that aught so sweet should be so evanescent. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. She is subtle as the air; she is evanescent as a sunbeam, and unsubstantial as the ocean’s froth;—but she is none of these. The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries Ere three years old, she, whose image is now with us, all over the small sylvan world that beheld the evanescent revelation of her pure existence, was called the "Holy Child!" Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) In the creed of both, man was essentially evanescent. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal In the Marquesan practice, the sense would thus be evanescent; from the Tahitian, a mere survival, it will have entirely fled. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) I always am present, Yet nothing can bind me; Like thought evanescent, They lose me who find me. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy Thoughts came to her evanescently, and faded before they were wholly formed. Mary Magdalen But a sea-born breeze is on Bowness Bay; all at once the lake is blue as the sky: and that evanescent world is felt to have been but a vision. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) They were evanescent, and apparently of diffuse luminosity, within which was a nucleus of light, not, however, visible to me. Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research The evanescent dimple had disappeared entirely and also the indolent expression in her golden brown eyes. The Campfire Girls on the Field of Honor As far back as records go, we meet with allusions to these swift and evanescent luminous travelers. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 And in this entreaty, in which he exhorted them to view disaster otherwise than from the external and evanescent aspect, the voice of the prophet rang once more. Mary Magdalen That strange and beautiful psychology which he employs, with its evanescent delicacies, has not sufficient corporeity. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century For me, however, the impression that New York had made was neither so unpractical nor so evanescent. Aliens Man's love to woman is as evanescent as is the presence of the summer-morning mist, that, for an hour or so, hugs lovingly the lea, then vanishes for ever. The Advocate The old squire is the landmark of the ancient state of things, and his son Tom is the epitome of the new; all between is a mere transition and evanescent condition. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 He is unable, while under their sway, to select and follow the course that is best, because his mind is engulfed in the evanescent present. The Philosophy of Spinoza He seems to have caught and fixed for ever in immutable grace the most evanescent and intangible of our intuitions, the very ripple-marks on the remotest shores of being. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century This, too, is evanescent: sickness and age would ultimately degrade the most muscular tyrants to servitude; and mankind would be composed of but two parties—the strong and the weak. Thoughts on African Colonization As she boiled the coffee and fried the eggs I studied her profile sketched against the blue, smoky background, and tried in vain to grasp the secret of its fleeting, evanescent beauty. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself The outer peridium, especially its upper part, is entirely evanescent, our Fig. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species The President’s malady is said to be neuralgia in the head—an evanescent affliction, and by no means considered dangerous. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital With normal eyesight we should not have had the man of ghostly reveries, the patient, charming etcher on a miniature block of evanescent prose, the forger of tiny chords, modulating into Chopin-like mist. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The verbal casting-net is thrown in vain over these evanescent, inferential relations. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) Posterity, which is the true arbiter in distinguishing between the enduring and the evanescent, the important and the trivial, rightly cares nothing for essentially petty matters which once were held of the highest importance. History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times This delicate physarum, very fragile and evanescent, seems to be distinct, by reason of its characteristic rounded lime granules, from any similar, stipitate species. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species The sketch preserves for him the evanescent effects of nature, which the study would not so entirely, because not so simply, grasp. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors We must, in short, pass beyond that finite region where the correspondences depend on evanescent and material media, and enter a further region where the Environment corresponded with is itself Eternal. Eternal Life It gives rise to the particular forces—heat, light, electricity, magnetism, etc.—which in their turn cause the evanescent forms which sense-perception sees as "things." Pedagogics as a System Yet the charm, evanescent as it was, laid an authentic hand upon his pulse and made it beat more quickly. An Ocean Tramp The stipe is usually white above, fuscous below, at the apex almost evanescent; hence the cernuous sporangia. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species The effect as nature gives it is either not complete, or is so evanescent as to be uncopyable. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors As the actors unload their wagons the spectators may notice above their heads bright, beautiful and evanescent forms coming and going in and out of being. In the Heart of a Fool It must be remembered that the period of the Middle Ages was represented by fancies and theories and an evanescent idealism which controlled the movements of the people to a large extent. History of Human Society And the colour on her face was so evanescent that he who watched her was inclined to think that she herself was like her colour. The Landleaguers The evanescent peridium is colorless; when free, white or silvery. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species Its evanescent voice is often recognized, but being a solitary wanderer even ornithologists have yet to learn much of its life history. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 3 September 1897 And the equality of opportunity for which these pioneers crossed the Mississippi and came into the prairie uplands of the West–where is that evanescent spirit? In the Heart of a Fool The reader may perhaps think—if he cares enough to think—that I did not enjoy life; but I did in my evanescent, changeful way. Confessions of a Neurasthenic How evanescent, fugitive, fitful she looked—slim and swift as a northern streamer! Shirley The netted capillitium and the evanescent peridium suggests Arcyria, but there are abundant free tips, and the threads are unmistakably spirally wound, especially in the large, handsome sporangia characteristic of the Mississippi valley. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species Lastly, beautiful tints had to be dyed; avoiding, as much as possible, the gaudy and the evanescent. Needlework As Art For the first evanescent fires of youth are the most sacred fires in the world. In the Heart of a Fool By overcoming that thought he showed men the evanescent nature of sickness and death. Carmen Ariza They are all human figures that wanton in the rocks—a crowd of foam-women—a band of white, evanescent Nereids. Shirley In the present species the wall is evanescent almost in toto; in L. globosus is it remarkably persistent, and the capillitium is adherent. The North American Slime-Moulds A Descriptive List of All Species of Myxomycetes Hitherto Reported from the Continent of North America, with Notes on Some Extra-Limital Species This law is acknowledged by Goethe, when he makes Jove answer Venus, who bewailed that all that is beautiful must die,—that he had only bestowed beauty on the evanescent. Needlework As Art A wanderer for many long years, I have contracted the habit of making daily memoranda of the fleeting, evanescent impressions of my travels, and thus giving them a more tangible form. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 They had life before them, a thousand dreamy delusions—a thousand alluring hopes evanescent as the apple blossoms of May, but as sweet also. Mabel's Mistake If he had the wisdom of Solomon he might also have his discursive fancies, his various and evanescent attachments. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife The mycelium is often nearly obsolete, and the short pedicels so evanescent, that a rusty or sooty powder represents the mature fungus, infesting the green parts of living plants. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses The impression made by the Sabbath ceremonials of the Church strikes us as evanescent, more pleasing to the fancy than informing to the understanding. Due South or Cuba Past and Present His success, whatever he does, is all glitter—evanescent glitter. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly However far removed in aerial distance, and however brilliant in light, they never appear filmy or evanescent, and their light is always on them, not in them. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) The expression of subtle and evanescent ideas, carried to its perfection, is among the very noblest and most exalted studies with which the human mind can be conversant. The Poetical Works of William Collins With a Memoir In some of these, the asci are evanescent, but in the greater number are permanent. Fungi: Their Nature and Uses The effect of the evanescent light thus produced is very peculiar, but the number of insects employed insures a sufficiently steady effect for ordinary purposes. Due South or Cuba Past and Present The love and sympathy of the mother-soul have but an evanescent influence in all departments of human interest until coined into law by the hand that holds the ballot. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV Yet its contour is as graceful as it is full of character—toppling, ready to change—fragile as enormous—evanescent as colossal. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) Contrariwise, we must suppose that such effect of the medium either was not wrought at all, or that it was evanescent: though repeated through millions upon millions of generations it left no traces. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I It is the acme of reality and this world which we mistakenly regard as the only verity, is but an evanescent replica of that Region. The Rosicrucian Mysteries An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings How exquisitely their bright unfading green sets off and contrasts with the rich golds, glowing scarlets, russet browns, purples, and crimsons, in all their delicate shades and evanescent hues! The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy The difference between the great mind and the small is after all that the former can retain its 'noble thoughts,' while with the latter they are evanescent. Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Which are comparatively rare.perfect passages of beauty are the most evanescent. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) But the decision is far less easy in mild cases, for in them the rash is sometimes extremely evanescent, the general disturbance of health very slight, and the fever and accompanying rise of temperature small. The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases He had never paused to analyze it, but had fallen upon the truth that the love of a man of thirty-four makes or breaks far more irrevocably than does the evanescent love of a boy. Mixed Faces On these estates the Black Death "produced severe evanescent effects and temporary changes, with a rapid return to the status quo of 1348." The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction Most people are aware that the effects of Nature are so evanescent that the painter generally makes his study as if he were observing an eclipse. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 All is melting, drifting, evanescent,—full of air, and light, and dew. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) Though Shakespeare is dolefully impressed by the decay and destruction of all material things and by the evanescent nature of beauty, he has no doubt whatever of the immortality of the verses he is writing. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland It had in it the scintillation of the diamond, for the flickering brilliance changed to evanescent blue and rose from pure white light. Blake's Burden How evanescent it seemed, by the light of the days at home, when something had always pressed him to action. David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West The ring is very evanescent and soon disappears. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth Now they are these evanescent passages of perfected beauty, these perpetually varied examples of utmost power, which the artist ought to seek for and arrest. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) I go back to my home encouraged and cheered by having found, as I believe, evidence, substantial evidence, that the new prosperity of Mexico is not evanescent and temporary, but is permanent. Latin America and the United States Addresses by Elihu Root This somewhat unexpected announcement sent a wave of pleasure—evanescent, perhaps hardly perceptible—sweeping over her. Sunlight Patch One day bluebells were along the hedge-bottoms, then cowslips twinkled like manna, golden and evanescent on the meadows. The Rainbow The spores are white and the stem has a collar, though a somewhat evanescent one, but no wrapper at the base of the stem as in the Amanita and Amanitopsis. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth They belong to his evanescent youth, and will pass away; but his honesty, his generosity, his bravery, belong to his character, and are enduring qualities. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 You seek happiness in the evanescent wine and laughter of the illusive, superficial life. When Dreams Come True Ridicule and derision are a kind of evanescent ostracism, a temporary exclusion from the comradeship. Introduction to the Science of Sociology It was sweeter than sunshine, and not so evanescent. The Rainbow The stem is white or yellow, stuffed, bearing a slight, sometimes evanescent, ring, bulbous, at the base, the bulb slightly margined by the volva. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth They are, however, of an evanescent nature, change rapidly in form and appearance, and often in the course of an hour or two die down so as not to be recognisable. The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' This is associated with evanescent anæsthesia for temperature and pain, while tactile sensibility is preserved. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. She would not shut the door upon her freedom and her girlish dreams and her ideals and all those evanescent bubbles which we try to carry with us into maturity. The Ranch at the Wolverine Maybe the only one who ever read them would be soon—would be a mere attenuated ash, at least, as far as what lay on that bed went, so pale and evanescent even now. Somehow Good The stem is equal, bulbous, floccose mealy above, stuffed or hollow, white, the annulus slight, evanescent. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth Judging from the indications of an almost evanescent spectrum, Neptune, as regards physical condition, is the twin of Uranus, as Saturn of Jupiter. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition I find it difficult to describe this elusive force of the communal spirit in the place, just as the communal character of the place is itself evanescent, while always powerful. Quaker Hill A Sociological Study The peculiar aspect lasted for half an hour or more, full of change to be sure, like opal hues, hovering and evanescent, but not obliterated. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Her skin and her soft flushed cheeks had the pure, evanescent quality of a child's complexion. A Modern Mercenary The stem is solid, short, fibrous, sheathed by a veil forming a ring more or less evanescent. The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth To make this evanescent interval perceptible, a telescope eighty feet in aperture would be required. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition For this faith in the actual permanence of what seemed so evanescent, compare Adelaide Procter's "Lost Chord." Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Her gaiety had been evanescent and she now experienced a feeling of positive gloom as she entered her pretty room and prepared to bathe and dress for the evening. Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore It is very evanescent and, consequently, rarely seen. The Home Medical Library, Volume I (of VI) Here, as well as in innumerable other places, are we told that true love is not a mere evanescent feeling of the heart, but an inwrought and abiding habit of the will. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory And it is highly probable that the illumination of the nebulous wreaths round the star will prove no less evanescent than the blazing of the star itself. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition However slight and evanescent that affinity may be, it yet hints at the possibility of other things, surrounding the most trivial remarks with a kind of roseate glow. Juggernaut The exact source of these desirable but evanescent qualities in butter is not yet satisfactorily determined. Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying Since the atoms of matter are indestructible, as far as we know, it is difficult to believe that the spark which gives to their union life, memory, affection, intelligence, and fidelity, is evanescent. Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville Across the valley dim ghosts of hills lighted by evanescent gleams rose out of the east wind greyness with shadowy grandeur. Hawtrey's Deputy The almost evanescent faintness of Holmes's comet at its next return accounted for its invisibility previous to 1892, when it was evidently in a state of peculiar excitement. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition And what the ideas of tangible objects, but the repetition of finer evanescent titillations? Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Their presence, which seemed so evanescent on the valley floor, was closer now, more clearly sensed. Eight Keys to Eden The Ward theory demolishes the Deity with the greatest ease, and places man, fleeting or evanescent as he is, at the summit of the universe! Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6 In some cases the habitual act is performed, as it is said, unconsciously, certainly with a consciousness so evanescent as to leave no trace of itself. A Manual of Moral Philosophy In almost evanescent quantities it lurks in the earth's crust, and is diffused through the earth's atmosphere. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition If you are a person who routinely uses computers, the Internet, or digital media, imagine a day when you do not create—intentionally and unintentionally—hundreds of temporary, evanescent copies. The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Alas! that warm ray was the only one that Cond�, in his glory, let fall upon her, and it was but evanescent. Political Women, Vol. 2 But what is more wonderful is, that these lightning flashes are as evanescent as lightning. A History of Elizabethan Literature Things in themselves trivial or evanescent may, under certain circumstances, claim our careful attention and thorough cognizance. A Manual of Moral Philosophy Most observers had depended, in their attempts to ascertain the rotation-period of Venus, upon evanescent shadings, most likely of atmospheric origin, and scarcely recognisable from day to day. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition The high desert stretched vastly, far, far, far before, behind, on either side, the parched gauntness of its daytime aspect assuaged and evanescent. Desert Dust The degenerate creed memorialised by Chandi Sewon, has failed to impress itself on the colossal pile which bears melancholy witness to the evanescent character of the heretical offshoot from the parent stem. Through the Malay Archipelago Occasionally luminous trains would linger on for many minutes after the meteor had flashed across, but the great majority of the trains in this shower were evanescent. The Story of the Heavens In youth, all-sufficient inspiration,—later, labour and rule, with meritorious concentration substituting for impetus and fire the beauty of careful form, and making durable in this the evanescent dreams of youth. The Wagnerian Romances But the comet of 1880 was less brilliant, and even more evanescent. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Those of them that are mythical are too evanescent to become full-grown myths; and those which are religious are too volatile to remain in the solution or salt of any bottled creed. Moon Lore Once, too, when the lady raised her delicate white hand, sparkling with jewels, to arrange the folds of that hated veil, Alessandro caught a rapid, evanescent glimpse of a neck as white as snow. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf Is man only an evanescent, material, earthly being, or is he immortal?... Modern Spiritualism His poems seem to associate themselves with a thousand evanescent memories of days when we have been happy beyond the power of calamity or disappointment. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations He smiled when Judge Graney asked the question—a faint, evanescent smirk. 'Firebrand' Trevison Why may not that defect be remedied, as other defects have been by the Japanese and our bank-note printers in that particularly evanescent texture, paper? Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 I readily promised compliance with this injunction; and in the course of a few days ceased to think upon the incident which has made so strange but evanescent an impression on my mind.” Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf It may be with something of a malicious chuckle that one notices that this four-wheeled tyrant is often empty; but the malice is of evanescent nature, born of narrow escape. The Cornwall Coast The world of ideas and the creations of the imagination are in fact no more evanescent than matter itself. The New Avatar and The Destiny of the Soul The Findings of Natural Science Reduced to Practical Studies in Psychology How loves, and tastes, and sympathies commence From evanescent notices of sense? The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society A Poem, with Philosophical Notes We feel we must hand on our own great and beloved ones; we must preserve the evanescent personal fragrance, press the flower. Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life The apparition vanished in a moment; but its evanescent presence was fraught with salvation. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf There is increased volume of the pulse for the reason that the small arteries and capillaries are dilated, but this apparent improvement in cardiac action is very evanescent. Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say |
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