| 单词 | impermanent |
| 例句 | The building is as grey as the pavement below and the sky above, appearing as impermanent as the clouds, as though it could vanish into the air without notice. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Despite the size and solidity of the building, it feels impermanent, populated by a constant stream of guests and travelers on their way to and from other locations. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “You know what the Buddhists say? Don’t cling to things, because everything is impermanent.” Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There may be a vast chapter in the development of art here that is largely lost to us simply because Neolithic artists worked in wood or other impermanent materials. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z All of life was impermanent, for example—a thing she thought about every day. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Along the way if there are points of pain, you observe them impersonally as your scan reaches those points, knowing they are impermanent. My exhausting meditation retreat: 10 days of Vipassana, silence and spiders 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z "Its architecture was impermanent," they say, "but it remains in the memory of those who were there." Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2012-05-18T10:57:05Z Exhibitions could run for a year, she said, or be relatively impermanent. A Space for Cultivating Creativity, 13 Years in the Making 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z This just after Brooks has told us that Adam I is in fact concerned with worldly success, and that Adam II is presumably after a deeper and less impermanent kind of happiness. ‘The Road to Character,’ by David Brooks 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z Absurdly big and dark in the white space, it offered another moment of magic — one of Mr. List’s impermanent, indelible marks. Dance Review: Rob List’s ‘Play by Ear’ at the Chocolate Factory 2012-10-05T21:16:01Z Given carte blanche, there is a tendency to design something a little too wilful or impermanent. What's the big idea behind the Pompidou-Metz? 2010-04-06T20:30:00Z The interior designer makes the case for rooms that feel uncontrived and even impermanent. T Magazine: The Importance of Being Nicky 2014-04-10T16:46:16Z It’s feeling the deep impermanence of life and yet seeing the funny, impermanent side of life. Garry Shandling Chose to 'Stop and Live' 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Our lives and identities are so deeply rooted in our work, in our digital lives, in often impermanent relationships and transient homes. The bond between adult children and their grandparents is an under-told love story 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z Viewed this way, mobile homes are impermanent and thus do not cultivate neighborhoods or communities; people may crave mobility, but a functioning society requires foundations. Essay Collections on Home, Culture and Everything in Between 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z As for the drawn, deathly faces of the children – well, fashion likes death too, because it makes us feel impermanent. Fashion's real victims 2012-02-13T19:30:01Z Like too much of “Materiality,” the result is overworked and — impermanent or not — wanting in imagination. 2010-02-06T06:48:00Z Hong Kong, where people come and go and know themselves more impermanent than anywhere else on earth. Top 10 books set in Hong Kong 2012-07-04T11:00:00Z “To not hang on to things, to not be too attached. Butter is quite impermanent.” Spare Times for Children for March 7-13 2014-03-06T23:35:14Z And yet their presence — however fickle, impermanent, haphazard — is a vote of confidence in our lonely stroll through unfamiliar streets. Perspective | In Hopper’s early Paris paintings, reflections of today’s strange, desolate cities 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z JULY: If you compare it to art or books or writing or most of the things I do, it is really impermanent and ephemeral. | Miranda July and Jonah Peretti on Reading Other People’s E-mail 2013-07-11T22:51:59Z The gum does that — even frozen in photographs, its shapes look transitional and impermanent. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z An impermanent permanent collection, the scheme is unprecedented. The new LACMA: Plans call for radical change to how we see the permanent collection 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Suddenly she was struck by how hard it felt to create, and how fleeting and impermanent everything can seem. Karen O and Danger Mouse Made an Album. It Only Took 11 Years. 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Douglas Dawson, director of the gallery, acknowledged that paper is typically perceived as impermanent. A Jewelry Maker Who Goes Far Beyond Metal 2012-12-06T16:07:04Z But the impermanent structure posed a serious challenge to the artistic quality. Suzanne Farrell Ballet to disband in 2017 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The grayish prints are unstable and gradually fade, so Endress reshoots them, permanently fixing the impermanent. In the galleries: A debate between red and blue at Charles Krause The author’s word choice struck me: impermanent, which I unintentionally tweaked in my mind to impermanence. The baker’s lament 2013-02-05T21:32:00Z Through a close look at mundane life, the drama argues for how dates like 1948 and 1967 haunt this family’s present, articulating the corrosive impact of being “permanently impermanent.” | 'Urge for Going': Political Conflicts, Family-Style 2011-04-12T22:33:25Z Maybe I was wrong in assuming my life had been an impermanent scramble for identity. Betty Gilpin: The First Time I Bought a Crumbling 1834 Farmhouse 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z I like hotels for settings, they are an impermanent place. Sofia Coppola takes insider's look at Hollywood A-lister 2010-09-03T13:08:00Z Elena’s poem, Herrera said, contained “a philosophical reflection about how all of us are impermanent. It was just a solid poem where she really touched base with wisdom.” U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera reappointed to second year 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z She says she now looks at life from a "lens" where everything is "impermanent." Michelle Williams talks Ledger, Marilyn Monroe 2011-09-13T08:01:04Z It appears both liquid and crystalline, impermanent and eternal. In the galleries: 12 modern Madonnas 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z If much of your life was characterized by a desire to find permanence and meaning in math and physics, you describe in this book a moment of realization that everything, including math, is impermanent. In this global crisis, there’s one consolation: the beauty of the universe 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Grooms and Ms. Gross’s distorted rendering of the city in papier-mâché, vinyl and fiberglass spoke to the precariousness of urban life, the impermanent character of the city at any given moment. Art Is Fleeting, but Red Grooms Is Forever 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Here’s the lesson I was learning about winning: It is impermanent, unstable, transient. How I Lost the Fiancé but Won the Honeymoon 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z But they’re made with diluted acrylics on Mylar, which creates a moist, impermanent quality. In the galleries: Rooted in nature but not always natural 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Her writing comes to have the double effect of heightening our sense of reality and making that reality seem questionable or impermanent. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z But it’s clean-lined and flexible, which are modernist formal ideals, and impermanent and popularly available, which move it into some other, maybe postmodern realm. ‘Beyond the Supersquare’ Looks at South American Modernism 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z In the Guggenheim’s modernist cathedral of a rotunda, much of her work looked improvised and impermanent, exactly right for an artist who once said: “We are made of throwaways, and we will be thrown away.” Best Art of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z The idea of a table, for instance, is fixed, permanent, and invulnerable, while “real” tables are fragile, flawed, and impermanent. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet paper is largely impermanent; tattoos are not. U.S. Amateur champ Sam Bennett in contention at Masters 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z “Everything is impermanent, whether you are male or female,” says Wong, whose normally cheerful manner morphs into rage when strangers stare at her daughter. Dubbed torture, ID policies leave transgender people sterile 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z Additionally, Japanese aesthetics focuses on the small and impermanent, such as cherry blossoms and tea ceremonies, as opposed to the large-scale grandiose “masterpieces” favored by traditional European aesthetics. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z We live in an age of revision, in which art is impermanent, ever shifting, always on the precipice of being “fixed” or “updated.” No song, movie or show can escape the digital age’s revisionist urges 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z Barrier islands, as environmental historian Jack Davis once wrote, “are impermanent, precarious places, at the mercy of wind and washing water – making, shaping and destroying them.” Climate change and vanishing islands threaten brown pelicans 2022-07-26T04:00:00Z Its central teaching, he said, is that everything is impermanent. I Lived the #VanLife. It Wasn’t Pretty. 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z We all know life is fickle and impermanent, but that’s typically background awareness. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Unvaccinated brother dies, and they call it ‘natural selection’ 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Trusting passion means you invest in two impermanent things: newness and physical appearance. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How do a couple in a relationship not get sick of each other? 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z That it nevertheless feels impermanent is part of the subtle unease Franco achieves, helped by the watchful but reserved, and at times sly, framing of Yves Cape’s camerawork. Review: Tim Roth excels at quiet intensity in Michel Franco's unsettling drama 'Sundown' 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z It might also be a reason we should endeavor to live more easily with artworks, allowing them to be the impermanent objects they are. The Strange Joy of Watching the Police Drop a Picasso 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z An expanding industry built on informal and impermanent housing is a reflection of the precariousness that increasingly defines daily life for millions of Americans. When No Landlord Will Rent to You, Where Do You Go? 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Designed on the historic Shakespeare Bridge in Los Feliz, this installation is a marriage between remembrance and creation: the impermanent beauty of the flowers adorning the enduring structures of our past. Take a journey inside the first issue of Image in 13 images 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Since then, world powers involved, including France, Russia and the United States, have failed in efforts to push negotiations forward, while the conflict settled into a steady rhythm of skirmishes followed by impermanent cease-fires. 'We will never leave': Armenia and Azerbaijan have fought over disputed region for decades 2020-10-10T04:00:00Z Last month, Muller announced that the annual impermanent art project would be held at its traditional location at Mariner Park on the Homer Spit. Traditional Homer Burning Basket event to be streamed online 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z So many significant moments from our lives are displayed on social media posts that are public, impermanent and curated for a big audience, she added. Get Creative to Celebrate Dad 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z The ancestors of the Mongolian reindeer herders, for example, likely lived in impermanent structures and made pretty much everything from organic materials. How melting ice could help us fill the gaps in our history books 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z The roads narrowed as they approached small plazas around the impermanent city. A Nobel-Winning Economist Goes to Burning Man 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Early hunter-gatherers lived in impermanent shelters, moving around in search of more plentiful food. Retreating from rising seas isn’t a win or a defeat — it’s reality 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Between Memorial and Labor Day, prime time was filled with reruns and what were once called "summer replacement" shows, cost-effective and purposely impermanent. Steph Curry, game-show host? For the broadcast networks, summer TV is all in good fun 2019-06-20T04:00:00Z We may spend a lot of time there, but it’s always impermanent. Overcrowd forces you to think about transit design in a different way 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z It reminds us, first, that mass privacy is not a basic feature of human existence but a byproduct of a specific economic arrangement — and therefore a contingent and impermanent state of affairs. Opinion | How Capitalism Betrayed Privacy 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Her life, like most, is full of impermanent connections and stabs at self-improvement. Film Review: Julianne Moore shines in ‘Gloria Bell’ 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Everything is impermanent; old age, sickness and death are our inescapable human fate. Want to transform your life? Stop chasing perfection 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z On the Louisiana leases, people bring in material and grow reefs that look like they’re growing, but they’re harvested, so it’s impermanent. Gulf coast looks to maintain, restore oysters 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z A sunset is impermanent and will never happen again the same way once it is over. How to Live With the Pain of Loss, Without Going Numb 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z According to Buddhism, all forms are impermanent, even furry cold-nosed ones. Seeking ‘a Good Afterlife,’ and Not Just for Humans 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Before the first identifiable presidential doctrine — the Monroe Doctrine of 1823 — George Washington warned of forming anything but impermanent alliances with foreign powers. The Flight 93 doctrine 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z Some fundamental changes can affect our happiness in a lasting way—getting married, immigrating to a wealthy country, developing a drug addiction—but many life improvements are impermanent in character. Are Things Getting Better or Worse? 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z National credit rating agencies have repeatedly raised concerns about Louisiana’s use of short-term, impermanent solutions for long-term budget imbalances. Analysis: Louisiana could see another short-term budget fix 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z If left to its own devices, the Mississippi follows a sinuous and impermanent path. Taming the Mighty Mississippi May Have Caused Bigger Floods 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z The agreement saw most international sanctions on Iran lifted in exchange for strict but impermanent restraints on its nuclear work. Israel Says It Destroyed Syrian Nuclear Reactor in 2007 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z It’s true that war unified us in the past, but impermanently, as today’s resurgent ideological and regional divisions show. Opinion | National unity might be impossible. We could try compromise instead. 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z They are fleeting, impermanent, as if always threatening not to exist. Sweat lodge, Audre Lorde, magical holograms: Three stellar art shows that pull you to another place 2018-03-10T05:00:00Z Loosely translated, it refers to an appreciation of the effects of time, and the humble beauty found in things that are impermanent, old, worn or incomplete. What’s perfect in home design now? Imperfection | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Once the monks complete the mandala, they will sweep it away in a ceremony representing the impermanent nature of existence, one of Buddhism’s fundamental teachings. Monks visit Grand Junction during tour through United States 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Tactical and operational kill-and-capture actions do indeed disrupt insurgent and terrorist networks, but the gains are impermanent, particularly if those networks retain external support and sanctuary. U.S. military: Too much tactics, too little strategy 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Notice the sensations you are feeling even as you acknowledge that they, and this experience, are impermanent. How to Be Mindful on Vacation 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z And its effects, while impermanent, are nonetheless real. Opinion | Trump has brought down border crossings — by scaring people away 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z But businesses that crave long-term certainty are not likely to favor such an impermanent approach. 5 Reasons Trump’s Promised Tax Overhaul Won’t Be So Easy 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z Each moment is new and different and impermanent. How to Be Mindful While Fireside 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Sometimes people make a permanent decision for an impermanent problem. Playing Chet Baker in 'Born to be Blue' was an unexpected second chance for Ethan Hawke 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z But because Obama had to work around Congress, much of this work is both limited and impermanent. Obama made progress on criminal justice reform. Will it survive the next president? 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z Plus, he was well aware that few things were as impermanent as the career of a professional athlete. How Arnold Palmer Revolutionized the Business of Sports 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z Taoism teaches that everything is impermanent, that life is very brief. When a Spouse Dies, Resilience Can Be Uneven 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z But the city's ephemeral network of impermanent venues and private events meant that a central organizing hub was essential. London-based Resident Advisor helps boost L.A.'s underground electronic music world 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z Marble was the preferred medium for the Gods, and reverent depictions of the dead; but bronze, malleable and impermanent, was ideal for human form. With ‘Power and Pathos,’ National Gallery enters its own bronze age 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Other outreach efforts have yielded only impermanent results. De Blasio’s Advocacy Group Pursues Ambitious Agenda Despite Setbacks 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z They would save us from tyrannical majorities because all majorities would be impermanent coalitions of minorities. America’s barnacled budget 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z It is an identity as impermanent as burnt cork, whose profitability rests upon an unspoken suggestion that the surest evidence of white superiority is the capacity to exceed blacks even at being black. Black Like Her: Rachel Dolezal and Our Lies About Race 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z He’s now cancer-free, but one of the things he considered while undergoing treatment was how impermanent life is. Why one man sang a song of cancer 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Marble was the preferred medium for the Gods, and reverent depictions of the dead; but bronze, malleable and impermanent, was ideal for human form. With ‘Power and Pathos,’ National Gallery enters its own bronze age 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z "Email doesn’t have to be permanent. From a security perspective, impermanent is better. But ephemeral is incompatible with the way most businesses want to operate." Ephemeral apps are betting your boss would pay to destroy your embarrassing emails 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Is the cosmos as impermanent as we are? String Theory Predicts a Time Before the Big Bang 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z The metaphor “a line in the sand” has come to mean a statement of resolve, but it originally indicated something impermanent, something that disappears in the first breeze. Sen. John McCain Remembers the Female Vets of the Gulf War 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z But as the Scottish are learning, most defenses against the impacts of climate change are inherently impermanent. Scotland Fights to Keep History from Vanishing Beneath the Waves 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Haugen argued that he did not want to live in limbo under an indefinite and impermanent reprieve, and a lower court ruled he could reject the reprieve. Oregon death row inmate cannot reject reprieve, court rules 2013-06-20T22:12:51Z Because crisis manifests itself intermittently, we treat it as an impermanent or transient phenomenon. Greece and Spain's Debt Death-Spiral Is a Lethal Game of Peek-a-Boo 2012-11-26T15:09:04Z His current role as an activist was thrust upon him and likely impermanent. Gun control’s newest face 2012-10-05T16:14:00Z Many see the debris field as a watery Pompeii, eloquent but impermanent, soon to be wiped clean by the force of waves and gravity. Remnants of Japan’s Tsunami Attract Archaeological Interest 2012-09-03T20:59:17Z “Aunt Millie was an impermanent pattern of behavior of the universe and returned to the potential she emerged from,” Chopra rejoined. Proof That the Brain Creates the Conscious Mind (preview) 2012-06-28T12:45:00.170Z Aunt Millie was an impermanent pattern of behavior of the universe and returned to the potential she emerged from, Chopra rejoined. What Happens to Consciousness When We Die 2012-06-27T11:15:00.197Z Like froth on a cappuccino, neutral zones are impermanent, impractical embellishments of cartography, destined to evaporate and leave us to wonder what the heck they were there for in the first place. | Borderlines: Put It in Neutral 2012-05-01T23:49:01Z For many, that is Twitter’s beauty: it is a conversational device where words are impermanent and always revisable. False Nikki Haley Twitter Report Spreads Fast 2012-04-10T01:48:31Z Beneath the daring rays of present-day research all things are being proved impermanent, all found verging over the infinite abyss. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z His first view clearly was that the individual is wholly impermanent, and at death simply disappears; nothing is left but the one Will and the universal Subject of contemplation identical in all. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z She says she now looks at life from a “lens” where everything is “impermanent.” Michelle Williams talks about Heath Ledger, playing Marilyn Monroe in the new issue of Vogue 2011-09-14T05:18:19Z Change is impermanent—therefore transitory change is merely the expression of want of tone in the political health of a people. Why I am opposed to socialism 2011-08-30T02:00:37.547Z I viewed life as highly impermanent, and believed that it was too short to spend one's precious time playing games of popularity and prestige. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z Maybe it's because they're markers of permanence in an otherwise impermanent and ultimately meaningless milieu. England's cricketers will get a mace to go with their kingly crown 2011-08-10T23:06:01Z This book tries in the light of historical practice merely to distinguish the permanent from the impermanent in technique. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z But unlike professionals in family and internal medicine, and in pediatrics, the inclusion of geriatrics specialists is recent and impermanent. The New Old Age: A Missed Opportunity to Recruit Specialists in Elder Care 2011-06-20T16:47:46Z Its attributes are liability to pain and dissolution, for it is impermanent. The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus 2011-04-19T02:00:18.493Z Professor Baker "tries in the light of historical practice to distinguish the permanent from the impermanent in technic." Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z Suffering is impermanent as much as is joy. Dangerous breach suspected at Fukushima 2011-03-25T09:41:00Z Seek not for love; things loved when lost bring woe; Both are impermanent. The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada 2011-02-07T03:00:21.273Z "The funding for Playing for Success is in place until March of next year," said one of the speakers, and we smiled our impermanent smiles. So, how about a ski slope on the site of Forgemasters? 2010-06-18T19:00:00Z Truly, the body is full of impurity and its end is the charnel house, for it is impermanent and destined to be dissolved into its elements. The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus 2011-04-19T02:00:18.493Z Toddlers sit on the sidewalk, bewitched to stillness in the breeze that sweeps the notes around us, vibrations subtle and impermanent as the synapse of a fading memory. Metropolitan Diary 2010-04-19T01:43:00Z Our separation, after all, is sure to be impermanent with eyes already fixed on a day in the near future when we will join our community in better days. Dangerous breach suspected at Fukushima 2011-03-25T09:41:00Z "All things compounded are impermanent"; Whoso sees this with opened inner eye Wearies soon of sorrow. The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada 2011-02-07T03:00:21.273Z Yet perhaps he must endure the impermanent a little, for these things return, but not wholly, for no two faces are alike, and, it may be, had we more learned eyes, no two flowers. Discoveries A Volume of Essays By its very nature it is transitory, impermanent. The Colonists An author must have us in no uncertain grip when he can induce us to read him by a light so impermanent as that of the elfish coal. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time The great buildings of metal and stone, so solidly appearing to the brief lifetime of a single individual, were impermanent over the centuries. Astounding Stories, June, 1931 Many of the art treasures of the world had been brought here and hidden from the vulgar in those awful impermanent "palatial mansions." Ancestors A Novel Yet the need for religion is impermanent, like all else in life. The "Genius" But as this is easy, so it is impermanent. The Social Direction of Evolution An Outline of the Science of Eugenics "There are permanent things in one's life, and there are impermanent things ... and you can't turn the one into the other," he thought to himself, as the little branch railway drove down the Axe Valley. Changing Winds A Novel He notes in his article that the line seems to be quite impermanent and fades so rapidly that an accurate measurement of its wave-length is almost impossible. Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 Some people get a sanctification from the Lord which is of much value, but which is variable, and often impermanent. Days of Heaven Upon Earth I have not done that since, because I do not wish to encourage physical memory, an impermanent and characterless faculty, developed to excess in every current theory of education. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation For a few moments the man and the maid studied the forest of immemorial, gaunt, and withered trees—bright, impermanent youth confronting 14 time-defaced and wind-torn age. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range But as Buddhists say the world is an impermanent place. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais What it was previously capable of doing only slightly and impermanently, it can now do completely. What The Left Hand Was Doing This condition applies chiefly to the paper, but as this changes, the binding will also change from its present costly and impermanent character to something at once cheaper and more durable. The Booklover and His Books An excited jargon filled the place which, with the air of physical disorder as if the workers were haphazardly improvising their activities,—gave the room a vivid though seemingly impermanent life. Erik Dorn More than ever convinced that our social order was unjust and impermanent, I sent in my "story," in some doubt about its being accepted. A Daughter of the Middle Border It tortured him in one deranged second for all was a phantasm of the mind and the phantasmagoria of an impermanent existence. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais He found an occasional momentary satisfaction in burned cork, but the joy was futile, and impermanent. Despair's Last Journey Never again need those moralists point out to you the inherent silliness of your earnest pursuit of impermanent things: your solemn concentration upon the game of getting on. Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People For Monism the individual is a mere surface ripple on an infinite ocean, alike impermanent and impersonal; for Christianity the soul is a child of the Father of all souls, loved with an everlasting love. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive The musician speaks a language that is in its very essence more impermanent than the speech of any other art. Among the Great Masters of Music Scenes in the Lives of Famous Musicians Indeed, one of the more interesting aspects of graffiti is that in an impermanent form it testifies to the continuance over the centuries of certain human concerns. The Merry-Thought: or the Glass-Window and Bog-House Miscellany Parts 2, 3 and 4 And they always, seemingly, required his presence in a city other than that in which they were living—if living can be said to describe the exceedingly impermanent perch to which they clung. Gigolo Somehow during the next weeks the Ridge furniture was assembled from the various places where it had been cached since the last impermanent experiment in housekeeping. One Woman's Life For such, the world is a far distant thing, lying out on the rims of consciousness, delicate and impermanent as sunset hues or the lights and gestures of the dream. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers As these accidents write their history upon the ground alone, and in a way impermanently, it is difficult to trace the ice times of ancient geological periods. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography You know what an impermanent thing such slumber is. Tales Of Hearsay Such a union may, as the records of the divorce court show, be anything but impermanent; but it does not make for clearness to call such an union marriage. Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia The state of nature, then, is a fleeting and impermanent process. Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work A confused and impermanent family life must be a bad background for the young. Dangerous Ages It seems to give us all a sort of impermanent feeling. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-29 Gautama Buddha taught that everything corporeal is material and therefore impermanent. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 But it was one of the least frequent and the most impermanent of His moods. The Judge "Is that which is impermanent sorrow or joy?" he asks of his disciples. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 It alights like some winged seed upon a new-born set of Skandas with its luckless boon of ill desert, and it involves the fatal inconsistency of investing with permanent character that which is itself impermanent. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Would she, too, waste her life in an effort to give substance to a shadow and to render permanent the most impermanent of earthly things? The Wheel of Life Reflection, therefore, will easily suggest to the reader the further logical inference that in a Universe which is essentially impermanent in its conditions, nothing can confer permanency. Five Years of Theosophy The Eastern religions, including Christianity, taught that because everything in the world is uncertain, impermanent, perishable, therefore we ought not to allow our minds to love worldly things. Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn Before and behind there stretches a vista of lives, past, present and to come, impermanent and unsatisfying, so that future existences are spoken of not as immortality but as repeated death. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Matters in their poetry, now the subjects of warm discussion among their critics, will be laid aside as materials for judgment; and justly, for they are of quite impermanent value. The Poetry Of Robert Browning So capricious, so ephemeral, so mutable, so mercurial, so impermanent are the whims of humanity, and so unstable its idolatries and adorations. The Jericho Road A retired, abstemious, and austere life is essentially necessary for the pronunciation of Om, which promotes the love of rigid virtue and a contempt of impermanent sensuality. Five Years of Theosophy It can think only through only one brain, enjoy through one body and such happiness as it gets is transitory, short-lived and impermanent because this world of relative existence is itself essentially changeable. The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga The European view of life differs from the Asiatic chiefly in attributing a value to actions in themselves, and in not being disturbed by the fact that their results are impermanent. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 Antonyms: See safe. period, n. interval. perishable, a. destructible, impermanent, mortal. Putnam's Word Book But thinking well about Nirvâna, the thought of endurance is forever dismissed; we see how the samskâras from causes have arisen, and how these aggregates will again dissolve, all of them impermanent. Sacred Books of the East Q. What is the right discrimination of permanent and impermanent things? Five Years of Theosophy Even if they are only speciously tangible and as impermanent as gusts of wind, they need them like the air they breathe….Mortal bits of dust feel more solid in a family unit…. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America Their lives are like their work,—impermanent, detached from others', unobserved. What eight million women want Shrugging, you will say of sorrow, 'What is it?' for you will know grief also to be impermanent. Figures of Earth That pain is as impermanent As shadows on the hills, And that Nirvana's blessedness Will cure all mortal ills? Poems What takes place in the mind and heart are alone the true events; their outward expression in the shifting and impermanent shapes of matter is the least real thing in all the world. The Centaur She too needed to cling to another person to seem to herself that she was more than dirt blowing around in the impermanent streets of the city. Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America I don't believe there's any one alive who can contemplate themselves as an impermanent institution, as a luxury or an unnecessary evil. The Beautiful and Damned The children at thy foot Open new-lighted eyes, Where, on gnarled bark and root, The soft warm sunshine lies — Dost thou, upon thine ancient sides, resent The touch of youth, quick and impermanent? Georgian Poetry 1918-19 If you took it up and looked at it the clearness, the unique, impermanent reality would be gone, and you would never get it again. Mary Olivier: a Life This, Horsley foresaw, and felt, and therefore built his arguments on the permanent, in order to subdue the creatures founded on the impermanent and other worthless idols of the mind's forming. The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 All component things, without exception, are impermanent, unstable, despicable, sure to depart, disintegrating; all are temporary as a mirage, as a phantom, or as foam…. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints Now the breath of this body of ours,—this impermanent combination of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire,—is like that smoke. In Ghostly Japan Under his protection Mrs. Vervain set up her impermanent household gods. A Foregone Conclusion There, there and not anywhere else, these supernaturally clear things had reality, a unique but impermanent reality. Mary Olivier: a Life They passed from boarding to house-keeping, in the easy Washington way, after their impermanent Congressional years, and divided their time between a comfortable little place in Nevada Circle and the old homestead in Hatboro'. Annie Kilburn : a Novel All component things must grow old; impermanent are all component things. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints I had never yet been a godfather, but I had the belief that it brought grave responsibilities, which in the very casual and impermanent circumstances I did not see how I was to meet. Roman Holidays, and Others But this ardently cultivated tint is notoriously impermanent. Tropic Days All nature in its myriad forms of life is changeable, impermanent, unenduring. The Way of Peace This body is impermanent, a thing of bitterness and vanity, and which cannot be looked on as pure. Chinese Literature Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the Sayings of Mencius, the Shi-King, the Travels of Fâ-Hien, and the Sorrows of Han Being transitory, and not what they seem, they are to be considered in the nature of illusions,—impermanent manifestations of the only permanent Reality. Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation The necessity to counteract by impermanent sojourn the permanence of arrest. Ulysses Immeasurably more impermanent in method and personnel is the regular collegiate department, the Sabbath-school proper. Back Home |
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