How to Use ephemerality in a Sentence

ephemerality

noun

• For many of these phenomena, the charm is in the ephemerality.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
• 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
• But where Noma, at least in those early years, was all about anchoring the ephemerality of food in concrete notions of place and time, Ilis seems to be committed, body and soul, to abstraction.
  — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024