How to Use ephemerality in a Sentence

ephemerality

noun

• The Olympics is an event that is unique in both its scale and ephemerality—it’s a Big Deal, but only for about two weeks.
  — Karen Yuan, Bon Appétit, 6 Aug. 2021
• Like the earlier single, this song revolves around the theme of the ephemerality of love.
  — Caitlin Kelley, Billboard, 8 Dec. 2017
• In the theater, where ephemerality is built into the show, flux is the only constant.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2023
• Stone lasts a very long time, and Park’s inspiration is the ephemerality of life.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• Their lyrics are full of self-aware references to the ephemerality of both fame and contentment.
  — Lenika Cruz, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2021
• Although they’re made of solid stuff, Konkel’s artworks are hymns to ephemerality and change.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
• Destruction was always part of the Murals to the Metaverse plan, one that turned the ephemerality of street art into a feature rather than a bug.
  — Suhita Shirodkar, Wired, 31 Jan. 2022
• Reflections of things outside of the display intrude on the central objects, adding to the sense of ephemerality.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
• These blocks of work demand to be consumed as a whole, and serve as an enemy of the ephemerality of music consumption.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2016
• Chen and Luo attempt to address the ephemerality and fluidity of time through their use of draping.
  — Vogue, 17 Sep. 2021
• The Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang has made an art of ephemerality, sculpting in fireworks and gunpowder.
  — Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
• To Kisch, the ephemerality of flowers was a metaphor for life; her sculptures were an attempt at making their full bloom immortal.
  — Diana Budds, Curbed, 29 Apr. 2022
• This is inherently erotic, the heartbreaking ephemerality mixed with the sting of the price.
  — Kate Berlant, ELLE, 15 Feb. 2023
• Online, a meme’s ephemerality is a given, and old jokes more or less evaporate.
  — Wired, 31 Oct. 2019
• The music suggests the permanence of art, the silent violin the ephemerality of our experience of it.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2020
• The advent of digital music meant this ephemerality is no longer a concern.
  — Erin MacLeod, The New York Review of Books, 22 May 2019
• At the same time, by committing her own story — or some version of it — to cinema, Wells both acknowledges and fights against this ephemerality.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
• This cycle may seem bleak, but for Mr. Coatney ephemerality is another day at work.
  — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
• There’s something romantic about the ephemerality of an exquisitely wrapped present.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 18 Dec. 2017
• The ephemerality of social media terrified us, and as such, inspired us.
  — New York Times, 7 Oct. 2020
• The soaring ceilings of the 1939 building reimagined by Renzo Piano clash pleasingly with the ephemerality of the media housed inside its walls.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Jan. 2023
• That rarity was in part what brought so many people to the reservoir last weekend, but the phenomenon’s ephemerality also played a role.
  — Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2021
• For now, though, history should give prophets of inflation’s ephemerality more pause than prophets of its persistence.
  — Joseph W. Sullivan, National Review, 23 Aug. 2021
• For now, though, history should give prophets of inflation’s ephemerality more pause than prophets of its persistence . . .
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 30 Aug. 2021
• The ebb and flow of the text clouds — with just a few choice lines about solitude sung in the clear by gleaming mezzo-soprano Chelsea Lyons — rightly latches onto the ephemerality of Wordsworth’s original, not its pretty scenery.
  — Hannah Edgar, chicagotribune.com, 13 Feb. 2022
• Inside, the drawings are striking not only for their subject matter but for their ephemerality.
  — Anna Russell, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• Always traced with ephemerality — the snow likely melted before the rendering was done — paintings of snow now record a double evanescence.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
• Notable among them is the tension between the beauty and pathos found, and revealed through, the precarity and ephemerality of existence that comes about through the inevitability of change.
  — John Zotos, Dallas News, 1 Oct. 2020
• The song fits well alongside modern vaporous sounds that aspire to its era, but the demo’s ephemerality can’t be detached from its appeal: a recording truly lost to time, dug up from the analog ruins.
  — Matthew Trammell, The New Yorker, 20 Jan. 2017
• Indeterminacy, ephemerality, fluidity—these were some of the guiding principles of the Fluxus movement, which held that every moment of life had the potential to become, or to deliver, a work of art.
  — The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024