Word: fleetingness
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When Hornsby began to write songs for his new album, he explains in countless interviews, he knew he had a problem. Yes, he had achieved the elusive "style" sought by so many of today's fleeting pop stars. But this style ran rampant and overwhelmed every project Hornsby touched. "End...
For Zhou, who is jobless, there are no more thoughts, however fleeting, of white flags. Asserting that he will continue to speak out against China's leaders, he says, "I plan to walk on two legs. One is to find a job. The other, when the moment is opportune, is...
It is difficult, of course, to "choose" our knowledge, as Holmes advised. We live in inundations of information. The air is dense with billions of fleeting names, images, factoids, electronic dust. Information jitters round in a Brownian movement. But there is a way to impose order on this incoherence. The...
Or it could be just another fleeting relaxation craze that attracts the curious and eventually bores them, like the flotation-tank phenomenon of the early 1980s. Not everyone likes the sensations the new stress-reduction machines produce. Complained a visitor to a Japanese salon: "It's like listening to an...
Finally, talent won out over bureaucracy. Within a few years he worked his way up to literary manager of the Theater on the Balustrade, Prague's principal showcase for the avant-garde. That made him a prominent part of the Prague Spring, which was not just a fleeting season but...