Word: transient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tragedy, both are evoked and invoked with consummate artistry clarity and immediacy: "And as I see these things in the light of lamp, all perishable and transient, how bound up I know I am to all that is human endeavor, to all that past and to all that shall be, to all that shall be lost and leave no trace," Long before this penultimate sentence, the vision is clear, through this prose that is not only a lens but a prism...
...Transient Tales...
Marsden's system, however, is most useful in handling transient phenomena-short-lived astronomical happenings...
COCA, with a transient, fluctuating membership, is typical of many groups on campus. Other groups such as the Peace Alliance, no longer exist, but this year, COCA's membership has grown...
...early 1920s, D.H. Lawrence wrote, "I place my immortality in the dark sap of life, stream of eternal blood. And as for my mind and spirit-this book, for example, all my books-I toss them out like so much transient tree-blossom and foliaged leaves, on to the winds of time." A funny thing happened next. The winds of time caught these words and much of the novel in which they appear and blew them into hiding for roughly 50 years. Between the day he abandoned Mr. Noon in midsentence in 1922 and his death...