If it is «our» marriage, founded on our own fleeting emotions and attachments, we will do with it pretty much as we please. (firstthings.com)
The titles of her memento mori, taken from the lyrics of tortured love ballads sung by crooner Eddy Arnold, Bob Dylan, or the Chemical Brothers, are examples of fleeting emotions rendered timeless by song. (lehmannmaupin.com)
In an age saturated with media accounts of tragedy and suffering, we have many stories that produce a fleeting emotion, but few that evoke anything more lasting. (firstthings.com)