Word: fleetingness
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Most important, it shines with the Gioconda smile, tight yet tender, fleeting yet eternal, which was Leonardo's strangest and least imitable gift to human imagination. The drawing may have taken the artist no more than an hour to do; the Met bought it in May at a London...
A Moralist. In many ways Nehru is a deeply appealing figure to Americans. Some of them had a fleeting glimpse of him when he came to the U.S. in 1949 and thought him mighty civil and handsome. No other living Asian leader, with the exception of Chiang Kaishek, has fought...
The Chamber of Commerce meeting in Springfield, Mo. saw a fleeting example of a well-known family temper. Looking at a civil defense pamphlet on the atom bomb, an insurance agent quipped: "They ought to drop one of these on Old Harry." At this, Major General (ret.) Ralph Truman, 70...
The four-minute mile is an elusive phantom that middle-distance runners have been closely pursuing since Paavo Nurmi set his mark of 4:10.4 in 1923. Some track coaches insist that it is a physical impossibility; others, pointing to the 1945 world record of 4:01.4 set by Sweden...
The portraits are generally of Fazzini's friends, carved as gifts to the sitter. Unflattering, they have some of the force and bite of the best old Roman busts. His apparent method is to catch a friend's fleeting but typical expression, as the camera can, and emphasize...