Word: fleetingness
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These rituals serve Dai Bosatsu residents dually. By giving both a directed regime to follow and an opportunity for unhampered reflection, they allow one to nurture the golden moments of silence, the fleeting embodiment of stillness, which is so lacking in daily life.
The Dylan record and concert, with all the attendant attention and ancillary activity from other performers, are not anything so focused -- or, perhaps, so fleeting -- as a revival. They are, however, a clear revivification and a reminder of the continuing pertinence of the genre. All folk needs is an occasional...
The Tricky Two-Step. Complex sentences are a duplicitous politician's delight. Suppose a candidate plans to oppose kumquat subsidies. Saying so outright to a group of farmers would reap no votes -- just permanent enmity. Instead, the aspirant might try to finesse it like this: "No one in the Senate...
There's no excuse for leaving Harvard without ever setting foot in one of the oldest and most fascinating metropolises in America. Fleeting images of skyscrapers, the townhouses in Back Bay and the Boston side of the Charles River on you cab ride from Logan Airport simply won't do...
RESIDENTS OF SIMI VALley don't usually have much contact with people from South Central Los Angeles. The lustrous suburb where the Rodney King beating trial was held and the inner-city war zone that erupted in rioting two weeks ago are separated by just a 45-minute ride. In...