Word: fleetingness
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It would have been small comfort to Sandi to know she was not alone. Children of every age cry themselves to sleep over rebuffs, both physical and emotional, suffered at the hands of their peers. Some of the tears--as well as the acts of cruelty that provoke them--are...
For a fleeting time, a day or two at most, all things are possible for an extraordinary group of cells that form part of a newly created embryo. Known as embryonic stem cells, they have the capacity to grow into any sort of tissue the body will need--nerves, blood...
Their second selection, Heinrich Isaak's Motet Virgo Prudentissima, seemed by contrast to start off with redemption. In a slower, more contemplative tempo, the choir boys looked ready to shine. Without being drowned out by the older choir, the sopranos and altos united in the production of haunting, luscious strains...
October 28, like January 1, December 25 (I am Jewish, but that just makes it worse) and December 26 (Canadian Boxing Day), had always been an anticlimactic experience. But because this birthday would be less a fleeting blur of metallic balloons and singing cards than a crossing over into the...
Play's done. School bell rings. Parents cling to fleeting things: hopes, fears, loves, dreams--time.