Sentences with phrase «even fleeting»

Even the fleeting trend of «permissive parenting» never actually was about parents relinquishing «control» or letting their households run amuck.

If you have even a fleeting passion for the environment, you probably already know what a monstrosity Canada's tar sands are.

His work reflects things seen or even fleeting moments from the everyday.

Or that a search through the catalog essays failed to turn up even a fleeting mention of either word.

At first, you should reward even fleeting eye contact with you.

This world can be a complicated one for the uninitiated and those who have even a fleeting interest in buying in can soon feel discouraged by the amount of time it takes to see some kind of return on their investment.

Even its fleeting flirtation with 90s sex thriller elements and brutal violence are watered down with disinterest, as if it doesn't know that that salaciousness is why we've showed up to Train in the first place.

He is famously camera - shy (even his fleeting Simpsons cameos placed a cartoon paper - bag on his head), and Anderson seems determined not to throw any light on his rumoured involvement with the movie.

There's even some fleeting moments where we turn the mirror on ourselves to see if we're the ones prescribing oddness to an otherwise savory and sweet situation.»

David Gordon Green stages even fleeting tonal palate cleansers with a self - consciousness that parallels Al Pacino's acting.

This distraction may seem subtle and even fleeting, but it takes a toll: The risk of an accident quadruples when the driver is on the phone, studies have suggested.

Never overlook even a fleeting thought about something that you think could be dangerous.

As we sit at our desks or walk to class, the immediate faces and objects around us seem far more real than do the aspirations we have for ourselves in the future or even the fleeting images that may come to mind from last summer's vacation.

Not exact matches

But even if there is no such thing as bad publicity, the attention may be fleeting without a concrete strategy going forward.

It's not glamourous, rewarding or even very interesting, but that's a lot of what living abroad is — looking stupid, trying to look less stupid, terrible loneliness, fleeting successes, and insights that seemed difficult to wrest.

Physical pleasure is fleeting, but even a lifetime of cheesecakes and other pleasures don't measure up to the long - term, rich and complex emotional reward of something I work for, like muscle definition on my abs, or being able to swim across the Hudson River on a whim, or to come in second in a footrace for the fun of it.

Okay, maybe not completely over, or even close to almost over, but is sure was nice for a while to taste the sweet nectar of oil prices over $ 50, no matter how fleeting that might be.

But underneath it all is a small, almost imperceptable current of life, and a promise of things so wonderful, we can not even comprehend them.I've seen it and sensed it, and tasted it, even if only for sporadic fleeting moments.

From afar it had appeared to him, quite small, gliding over the sand, no bigger than the palm of a child's hand — as a pale, fleeting shadow like a wavering flight of quail over the blue sea before sunrise or a cloud of gnats dancing in the sun at evening or a whirlwind of dust at midday sweeping over the plain.

Even if we do have foretastes of postpersonal experiencing, however, such feelings are oftentimes fleeting.

Then one may watch across the great plain while evening declines over the shoulder of the hills of Israel, silhouetting the high lookout of Elijah's Place of Sacrifice and picking out with its last rays the church - crowned summit of Tabor; he may follow the gliding cloud shadows over the wide slope toward Galilee, and cling entranced to the fleeting tints of rose and gold and violet that enshrine the friendly heights while the last rays of the westering sun, far out over the Sea, touch lightly with a ruddy promise of hope and joy the last summits of the hills.

It steps outside the probability tables and enables us to catch a fleeting glimpse of what might be, even of what — ultimately — already is.

Even erotic egoism can not forbear swearing «eternal fidelity» and, for a fleeting moment, finding pleasure in actually believing in this eternity.

Therefore, on those infrequent occasions when we admit that even pleasure can cloy and we a experience fleeting desire for a richer spirituality, deep down we suspect that that desire is merely a matter of our looking the gift horse of modern life in the mouth.

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».

Humans evolved doing some sort of physical «shopping», even if for most of history the similarity of that activity and a trip to the supermarket has been fleeting.

The lifeblood of the N.F.L., of course, is players like Morey and Portis willing to put everything on the line (even their long term health) for fleeting fame and fortune.

But one look at the fleeting expression on the lactation consultant's face as she watched me trying to nurse told me all I needed to know - I would never produce even close to enough milk.

Toddlerhood feels even more fleeting.

You will have unpleasant moments, but know that they are only moments and in the big picture of your children's lives, it's a fleeting thing you will look back at and laugh about some day, even if you can't today.

For many adults, even the thought of sinking into a nice warm bath brings fleeting thoughts of comfort and ease.

When dreaming, your baby can make grunting noises attached to fleeting laughs or cries even some strange sounds.

The project found that media sympathy for refugees, even after the devastating photos of the drowned boy on the beach, was largely superficial and fleeting.

Even England winning will only have a fleeting impact, mainly a stinking hangover on July 12th.

Elusive Mercury makes a fleeting evening appearance.

Motivation in the lab can be fleeting, even when you're excited about your thesis project, the data is flowing, your labmates are supportive, and your principal investigator (PI) is your advocate.

Even when it's not thinking or doing work at all, just fleeting for no reason over a scene in Gone With the Wind, the brain is fully powered.

Even when there's hardly any ambiguity — a blow - dried weatherman promising 65 degrees for the weekend — there is too often a fleeting sensation of uncertainty, much as when one approaches a glass door with the word «LLUP» or «HSUP» written on it, before the instruction is decoded to the satisfaction of the unconscious.

The poor performance occurred even if the attention problems were fleeting and improved after first grade.

But I learned it was OK to laugh — even if the moment was fleeting — refusing to be consumed by chaos.

If you go in with focus and intention, you can even make eating a piece of chocolate an ecstatic act as opposed to something you do while texting that becomes one fleeting moment of pleasure lost in other moments.

Furthermore to experience love, lose it and fall in love once more teaches us that even the most precious gifts in life are fleeting but also that there is always hope once more!

Now it's happening in the beauty world, in an artistic medium that is arguably even more fleeting than paint squiggles on a wall: nail art.

The paths and trails became quite an idyllic setting, enjoyed even more as it is known that this moment was fleeting, and wouldn't be quite the same tomorrow or the following week.

«Steve Gerrard has a knack for capturing the tiniest, fleeting moments you didn't even realise were happening, as well as the all - important hero shots.»

As these sexual relationships are often fleeting and unattached, the need for safe sex practices should be even more pronounced.

Charlize Theron Opens Up About «Incredible» Recent First Date: «He's Just a Really Cool Dude» Even by Hollywood standards, Sean Penn's romance with fellow Oscar winner Charlize Theron was a fleeting one.

The Virginity Hit steps up to try and fill this hole for 2010, providing more than enough obscenities, some youthful binge drinking / drug taking and fleeting glimpses of bare breasts to soothe even the most adolescent (i.e., perverted) at heart and ire the most stodgy.

What we glimpse through windows is always partial, but if viewed from a moving train the glimpse is even more fleeting.

Even though his memory has been wiped to prevent valuable information from falling into the wrong hands, fleeting recollections of a dark haired woman and a time he never lived in intrude upon his dreams.