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Synonyms for fleeting

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Synonyms for fleeting

lasting for a markedly brief time

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The survivors, he said, "have not consented for it to be publicly released in Pakistan", adding that such agreement was required for all the women who featured in the film, no matter how fleetingly.
In the senior high school text, he is mentioned fleetingly as part of a lesson on the custom of lowering flags to half-staff at state funerals, like Mao's in 1976.
In experiments in the 1980s, other teams fleetingly made silicon a superconductor when they squeezed it to about 100,000 times atmospheric pressure.
The Sunday Mirror's ICM poll shows that the nine-point advantage the Conservatives fleetingly enjoyed has slipped to just four.
Mirrored clear--nothing undefined within the dawn-arranged, dusk-arranged eye--a spirit's here transparent increments to visit, gracing us fleetingly, mortalities with eternity.
Instead of being drab eyesores, the poles are fleetingly transformed into objects of strange and compelling beauty.
Instead, wine emerges as an experience open to invention and reinvention, a nebulous pleasure captured only fleetingly in the strained metaphor of a critic or the romance of an Italian estate before it is reconceived as something wholly different.
The exhibition, called Farewell to a Stranger, is based on images of people that we meet fleetingly and who make us reflect or change direction in our lives.
The Germans, who had won 3-1 in the first leg, only fleetingly relaxed their vicelike grip in the return.
However, this would eliminate any records which refer even fleetingly to the box industry but which may still contain useful information.
As in all Makine's writing (which once again has been beautifully translated by Geoffrey Strachan), even the darkest textures are shot through, at least fleetingly, with light, or as in this typically evocative moment, light and music: "[Berg] left the room, took a few steps along the corridor, had no desire to go farther.
Images force themselves on our minds whether we like it or not; it is impossible to see a violent image or an erotic picture and not react, however fleetingly. Thus, when we hear racy songs, see suggestive billboards and TV ads, or watch television shows with morally subversive themes and bawdy content, we are unavoidably being conditioned to tolerate and, eventually, embrace vice, that "monster of so fearful mien, as to be feared needs but to be seen" that Alexander Pope warned of.