Sentences with phrase «by fleeting»

That's me, staring into the fire, transfixed by the fleeting rhythms of the flames.

A traffic violation isn't something that everybody wants — overwhelmed by foolhardiness to beat the red light or distracted by a fleeting thought as you make a turn, you could suddenly find yourself stopped by the flashing red - and - blue lights of a police cruiser.

Unfortunately, regardless of the fugitive position, the delay itself has often been caused not by fleeting or hiding by the RP but by a simple inactivity of the Polish Judicial Authorities for many years.

Mono no aware suggests that because we exist in a state of constant change, the beauty we see around us becomes heightened by its fleeting nature.

Somehow the sentiment, expressed by fleeting headlines over a decade old, rings as true as ever.

Passers - by were arrested by fleeting impressions of members of the group silently tracing illegible letters in the air.

For our Metro 2033 Xbox One captures, just two frames are dropped - one accompanied by a fleeting screen - tear cascade, again proving that adaptive v - sync is in place.

Where the earlier films offer a single (more naïve than unreliable) narrator, The Thin Red Line dispenses with narration altogether, replacing it with multiple subjective voiceovers (sometimes accompanied by fleeting visual flashbacks) that insinuate themselves into the action as it proceeds.

It's just that Reichardt believes the world is one unmitigated disaster after the next, sporadically punctuated by fleeting moments of beauty.

Serious about life and are strongly attracted by fleeting love affairs and adventures.

Man, we work so hard all week to finally be rewarded by the fleeting weekend.

Once influenced by a fleeting fling with an artist who wore a thrifted blazer he had hand painted dollar signs on the back and sleeves, I no longer feel the need to make a statement everyday.

Stung by fleeting entrepreneurial beverage brands, several clever distributors have applied their industry know - how to creating distinctive brands that can't suddenly get sucked into the Red or Blue systems.

An agonising portrayal of Jesus» final days, redeemed by a fleeting glimpse of Resurrection.

The king himself had reached nearer perhaps to a monotheistic conception of God than any of his people, but he was oppressed by the fleeting character of life, and uncertain of what lay beyond this life.

Learn to value the people and relationships that consistently bring you contentment, rather than having your perception dictated by the fleeting victories and losses we all experience.

Not exact matches

By keeping a fleeting eye on your direct competitors, you can react before they do, or at the very least be ready to respond.

Pardon me for being skeptical, but hope is often an elusive and fleeting feeling when you've spent nearly a decade battling to keep a child from succumbing to death by overdose.

And counter to what many believe, this doesn't change when your company is doing well — every moment of glory is fleeting, quickly swept away by the next looming crisis and the need to reach the next level of success.

Initially dismissed as a fleeting, fringe trend by banks and regulating bodies, cryptocurrency was left largely untouched for a long time.

But will can be constrained by culture, and finances can be fleeting.

I remember (but could not find to link) a splendid editorial by the Christian Century's David Heim (some uncertainty about the author) from quite a few years ago (presumably before the 2008 election) wryly encouraging evangelicals to enjoy their moment in the political and cultural limelight because it would prove fleeting.

And that emotional experiences elicited by worship can be fleeting.

By deconstructing the mounds of Jesus junk, we can catch fleeting glimpses of God.»

this light through the petal — where there are no shadows and where it is never a problem never to have shadows, neither haunted by undaunted need nor pursued by misconstrued fleeting: there where Plato dwelt and many have followed rejoicing is where we see.

we must know that spring will come, that we will be blessed by the sight of life's wellness or else we would have no place to go or to endure — environment and the circumstances of life would be meaningless and ever fleeting to us.

The fleeting pomps of the world are like the green willow trees, which aspiring to permanence, are consumed by a fire, fall before the axe, are upturned by the wind, or are scarred and saddened by age.

And though the second man's eyes have been opened to the fleeting nature of the pleasures of sin, and he has taken steps to create new, real, lasting life for himself, we see in his story the destructive power of past sins to reach into a man's future, destroy any goodness it finds there, and drag him back by his own lusts.

Drugs admit one to a haven of light and life, the momentary grasp of which is preferred by the addict to the boredom of ordinary self - centered existence, despite the darkness and death which are the price of the fleeting ecstasy.

The discipline has been characterized by a dizzying diversity, and practitioners of the craft have too often been attracted to fleeting intellectual fads.

The situation was aptly described by William James when he wrote: «It is part of the deeper mystery and tragedy of life that whiffs and gleams of something that we immediately recognize as excellent should be vouchsafed to so many of us only in the fleeting earlier phases of what in its totality is so degrading a poison.»

The deeper question is how intuitively convincing is this claim when confronted by the fact that the whole earth is one fleeting speck in the observable space - time continuum of the cosmic process?

Singular psyches are better conceived, in the view I have been sketching, as fleeting nodes in a multi-layered semiotic network whose connectivities are both ensured and characterized by shared modes of symbolization, or signification, such as language supplies.24 Here the «We» often claims the last word, but so long as some vestige of radical imagination remains, singular psyches are not subservient to public customs, institutional definitions, entrained instincts, ingrained habits, and soon.

Having an emotion is certainly what some sects search for, but emotions are fleeting, and can usually be explained away by an undigested piece of cheese or some other... If we search for an emotion to prove the validity of our faith, then the moment our emotions faulter, so does our faith.

The fashionable commentators, usually morally libertarian in outlook and hostile to religion, and sometimes amusingly termed the «chattering classes» (or, even better, the «commentariat»), seem to refer now to any but the most fleeting of sexual encounters by the equally coy euphemism of «relationships».

This special, family moment aims to represent the fleeting and spontaneous joy triggered by the taste of Cadbury chocolate — in this case inspiring a fully choreographed routine.

While there's a permanence to blogs — content lives out there unless deleted — one post is replaced by another and then another in a fleeting way, almost like a journal entry that gets buried deeper and deeper into a collection of notebooks that the keeper fills and collects just in case there might be a time, somewhere down the road, when she might want to remember.

Brief and fleeting, Meyer lemon season is anticipated by cooks and bakers everywhere.

This time he signed his card, was motionless for a second, then threw the pencil to the ground — a fleeting public trace of deep disappointment that was immediately replaced by his usual semismile.

By which I mean the level of consciousness that medals and cups can bring only fleeting pleasure, and that true fulfilment comes only from within.

In February, Bremen had gained fleeting notoriety by getting hold of an old Kansas City Kings warmup suit and participating briefly in the halftime shooting drills during the NBA All - Star game before he was discovered.

Kids are emotionally unstable, but so are some adults, so when you see a child throwing a fit in the juice aisle of some overcrowded grocery store, try to remember that it's not fair to judge a mother (or a child) by one singular and fleeting moment of disturbance within an entire day full of better ones.

Life is fleeting, of course, and blogging is by its nature an in - the - moment practice.

The only current member who was around for the fleeting Eliot Spitzer era is Toby Ann Stavisky, who holds a Flushing - area seat that has been represented by either her or her late husband since 1983.

Higgins seemed to concede there may be some measures in the proposal passed by the House that could benefit most Americans, but insisted they will be fleeting.

«That almost happened with the Moreland Commission — but it turned out to be a little bit fleeting,» he said, referring to the commission established by Cuomo to investigate public corruption, which was later disbanded by the governor as part of a budget deal.

Plans backed by Gordon Brown to increase the Scottish parliament's remit — including giving it greater control over income tax, borrowing powers and criminal justice — are now in great doubt after the Queen's speech made only a fleeting reference to the proposals.

They fell all the way back down to 32 %, and while there are some signs of nascent recovery, with the Clacton by - election looming it may be a fleeting comfort.

The Assembly's Democratic majority has a fleeting chance to avert disgrace by refusing to allow Silver to lead their house while charged with federal felonies.

Back then, few scientists had caught more than a fleeting glimpse of a forest elephant in the wild; they extrapolated populations by counting dung piles along paths the creatures carved through the underbrush.