Sentences with phrase «only fleeting»

That explains why the Sydney Morning Herald's digital edition often bears only a fleeting resemblance to the print edition.

Chances are you probably spent more money than that on designer coffee during the last month, and that brings only fleeting happiness.

In the Supreme Court, Abella J. made only fleeting reference to the decision under review.

More often than not, camera traps yield only fleeting glimpses of target species passing by the lens, leaving researchers with perhaps two or three clear frames with which to study.

Rennie gives the viewer a sense that the people who make up and define an urban community are only fleeting presences, and even the (often) grand monoliths built to service their needs are ultimately only temporary structures.

It was only a fleeting glimpse of one of the most venomous creatures on the planet but it was enough for this fearful traveller.

A beautiful woman, who I recognized as the circus's contortionist, seemed lost as she gazed at the curve in the road where the pickup had disappeared, leaving only a fleeting cloud of dust.

Yet one who chooses the Claymore / BNY BRIC Index Fund (EEB) has only a fleeting 6 % exposure to Russia; China, India and Brazil get 94 % of that pie.

Suddenly, with only a fleeting decade's warning, the book business didn't now how to make a stable profit.

Many self - publishers have not personally met, or have had only fleeting exposure, to traditional publishing companies and their personnel.

And even then, the quick reactions of the four - wheel drive system ensure that it is only fleeting.

The small glimmers of genius that it does show are often only fleeting and don't last long enough to be really enjoyed.

Most texts used to teach reading had been written by proponents of whole language methods, and there was only fleeting exposure to the kinds of scripted, phonics - based curriculums, like Open Court, that are increasingly being adopted in the nation's schools.

Despite the importance of these characters to Daphne's story arc, Burn's and Mensinga's decision to restrict their screen time to only their fleeting interactions with Daphne, is incredibly poignant.

While we saw only a fleeting glimpse of Dr. Henry Wu in yesterday's trailer for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom trailer, a new round of footage has further clarified his role in the film.

In fact, the Farrellys offer only fleeting glimpses of Rosemary's true appearance for most of the picture, and even then, at a distance or only in part — another wise move, for when we finally do get a good look at Paltrow in full makeup (which, it must be said, is nowhere on par with, say, the work on Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor movies), one doesn't laugh at her since one has gotten to know Rosemary so well.

There are inklings of classic Allen that threaten to breach the surface, but these are only fleeting moments that soon recede.

Hogwarts is nowhere to be seen here and most of the regular cast of supporting characters get only fleeting appearances.

The Big Bad of Ant - Man and the Wasp is a mysterious figure, appearing for only a fleeting moment in the trailer, and not doing much other than look menacing in a grey hooded costume and mask.

There's an only fleeting sharpness to to the film's edge, an obviousness to sly shrug it greets its punishments.

There's nothing quite as iconic here as the ghostly handclaps behind Lili Taylor in the first one, and only fleeting glimpses of co-stars Maria Doyle Kennedy (Orphan Black), Franka Potente, and Simon McBurney.

Until spring of last year, I maintained only a fleeting interest in David Fincher and his body of work.

«Rogue Nation» has only a fleeting, theoretical interest in sex.

Over the years, many of those «expensive» films find there way into cinemas but others don't — lost at sea to maybe never see the light of day with only a fleeting DVD release to showcase some upcoming talents.

Taco (Internet star Jon LaJoie) is a burnout, Andre (Human Giant's Paul Scheer) is a spoiled rich bachelor, and Ruxin (Nick Kroll, guy who's been in everything) is a new dad with only fleeting moments for football.

The screenwriters appear to have no concept of how action video games work, moving their characters haphazardly through a nondescript jungle with only fleeting instances of combat and problem - solving.

But it's only a fleeting moment, because there's way too much to think about in the main narrative for you to be distracted for long.

There's a funny movie trapped somewhere inside Stealing Harvard, but the finished product offers only fleeting glimpses of it.

The aim is to find a relationship which leads to marriage, rather than only a fleeting connection.

But, most people achieve such clarity for only fleeting moments, dismissing such experiences as a mere illusions or mental wanderings.

Current FDA - approved medications, including Aricept, Razadyne and Exelon, offer only fleeting short - term benefits for Alzheimer's patients, but they do nothing to slow the steady, irreversible decline of brain function that erases a person's memory and ability to think clearly.

Professor Stringer believes it is because there may have been only a fleeting encounter as modern humans migrated through South - East Asia and then on to Melanesia.

But in another critical area, the governor offered only a fleeting reference — the need for more ethics reform.

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.

What is known is that, unlike Mark, many have had only a fleeting relationship with the mother but still want to play a positive role as a father.

While most Waldorf teachers will have heard of this approach, few will have experienced this method themselves as school children, and many may have made only fleeting acquaintance with this approach during their teacher training.

As I said yesterday, it is only a fleeting visit, my appearance here grates far too many people.

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.

Thus, journal articles abound since the early 1960's, but only fleeting references are found in the more widely circulated religious magazines.

As much as I loathe and despise religion, the facts indicate that this individual had only a fleeting and tangental association with christianity.

Curtis gained only fleeting respect and recognition during his lifetime; a man of extraordinary energy and talent, he died relatively unknown in 1952.

Trump, Brexit and the carnage in the bond market caused only fleeting moments of panic in the dash for trash that was 2016 — when stocks of any quality shot higher.

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Not only will you give respect, you'll earn it — the respect that comes from making a difference, however fleeting, in another person's life, which is the best kind of respect there is.

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.

your good deeds will be forgotten and only give you a fleeting temporary reward.

The exercise of patience, for instance, assumes that action directed toward the future is superior to action devoted only to the moment: it is self - restraint based upon a good that is seen as superior to the momentary self — the self - of - the - fleeting - moment.

What God is a a perfect being (hard for us to completely comprehend as we only have a fleeting idea of what perfect is).

The only one's I see are the fleeting school auditorium and shopping mall meeting room congregations and the gigantic charismatic churches with people falling on the floor babbling during the services, whose congregants are in serious need of mental health professionals.

For if this plaint of the air, this tinting of the light, this communication of a soul were so tenuous and so fleeting it was only that they might penetrate the more deeply into my being, might pierce through to that final depth where all the faculties of man are so closely bound together as to become a single point.

history will repeat iteslf, the greatest minds knowledge fade or are eventually plagerzed, your good deeds are forgotten and only give you a fleeting temporary reward.