Word: fleetingness
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Ted Bundy was executed because the judicial system believed he did not belong to our vision of an ordered society. Where we believe that we respect the sanctity of human life, he was a man who found pleasure in that fleeting, tragic moment when life is extinguished.
! A masterpiece by Maurice Sendak is rare. A newly discovered tale by Wilhelm Grimm, younger of the Grimm brothers, is unprecedented. The work of collaborators separated by more than 150 years is irresistible. All three converge in Dear Mili (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $16.95), a long-lost Grimm tale in which...
How fragile our myths, how fleeting certainty.
"Senator Bentsen is from a conservative Southern state and for almost 40 years has had a solid civil rights record. What you see in Bentsen is a deep commitment to civil rights," said Sperling. "What you see in Bush and Quayle is a fleeting, almost nonexistent commitment to civil rights...
B.U. created more scoring opportunities, outshooting Harvard 13-9, with 9 penalty corners as opposed to the Crimson's 5. Sue Caples described Harvard's opportunities as "fleeting," as opposed to B.U.'s which she claims were "more concrete."