Word: transient
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...Even today, with all the treatment and all of the medication, I still have transient psychotic thoughts, probably daily. Where a thought like, I've killed people, comes to my mind and I just say, oh that's your illness acting...
...some critics say transient volunteering is more suited to making participants feel like do-gooders than to doing good. "If you're going to work with children in an orphanage, [how will they] understand what you're trying to do when you don't speak their language and you don't stay long enough to form a relationship?" asks Tricia Barnett, director of Tourism Concern, an industry watchdog based in the U.K. "What does it mean to the child...
...doesn't have the throbbing cultural and art ethos that continues to lure immigrants to New York City; the creative, warm and human landscape that is Paris; or the universal language and literature of London. Perhaps the Los Angeles model of rich settlers and the Las Vegas model of transient spenders have inspired Singapore more than the three big world cities Lee mentioned. I hope that museums, creative ambiance and Old World charm are somewhere on the agenda. Nevertheless the challenge is huge, especially considering the ambitious timelines. Bala Shankar, Singapore
People who give and receive honeymoon gifts are part of an emerging demographic: so-called transumers, a mash-up of transient consumers, who prize collecting experiences, discovering new things and living in the present. George Ritzer, editor of the Journal of Consumer Culture, says the trend reflects an affluent, hyper-consumerist society in which the Internet has accustomed people to ephemeral pleasures. "The middle class can get all the toys they want," he says. "That leads to a desire for services ... and nonmaterial experiences...
...characters in the novel, and can never be quite identified and verified. There is a delicacy and frustrating resilience to that specter, that force that maintains the movement and emotion and fear in the world. The force is something to be reckoned with, but the discovery that the transient narrative force was none other than Angelica herself leads only to disappointment. She is not nearly as conflicted as the story calls for; she is simply petulant and whiny, cajoling the reader for desiring a resolution that he shouldn’t even want or need. The book would be better...