Word: fleetingness
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For a while, it looked like it would happen. Harvard was up 7-3 at halftime and went to the locker room with fleeting satisfaction.
Anecdotes are just anecdotes, but building--or destroying--trust is often based on those anecdotes. Whether a guard recognizes you or knows your name is just as ephemeral and fleeting as catching a guard asking directions or changing clothes in the Claverly Hall foyer, as one guard happened to be...
Best not to think about it. Television has taken so much of the physicality--the sheer touch--out of politics that we should cherish the vestigial handshake, the last, fleeting, primitive human contact, flesh to flesh, sweat to sweat, pulse to pulse. A true politician loves shaking hands.
For a month we'd been climbing and exploring in this corner of Antarctica. To visit such a wilderness in the waning moments of the 20th century struck us as a rare and fleeting privilege--an incredible stroke of good luck. Keeping this firmly in mind, we went to extraordinary...
DIED. NATHALIE SARRAUTE, 99, experimental novelist whose book Tropisms (1939) jump-started the Roman Nouveau move ment; in Cherence, France. She ignored traditional approaches to plot and character, focusing on fleeting human reactions she called "movements...on the border of our consciousness."