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Example sentences for "transience"

Lexicographically close words:
transgressors; tranship; transhipment; transhipped; transhipping; transiency; transiens; transient; transiently; transients
  1. The doctrine of Transience was the first entrance gate of Hinayanism.

  2. And, again, Transience holds its tyrannical sway not only over the material but over the spiritual world.

  3. Thus the doctrine of Transience supplies us with an inexhaustible source of hope and comfort, leads us into the living universe, and introduces us to the presence of Universal Life or Buddha.

  4. Transience never fails to deprive us of what is dear and near to us.

  5. The ghost of their love reminds me of the transience of life.

  6. But the pretty, old-fashioned, peaceful-looking room told also of the strange transience of human life.

  7. Poor Poppy, if he could have thought of her at all, he might have felt a sort of pity for her transience, the transience of the feeling she inspired.

  8. The very transience of his appearances and Lucia's ignorance of all that lay behind them preserved her in her attitude of adoration.

  9. It was like a reminder of the transience of the thing he sought, a challenge rousing him to assert its immortality.

  10. In a third class this characteristic of transience is lacking, as for example in mislaying things so that they cannot be found again, or in the analogous case of losing things.

  11. The transience of the contents of art may be of two kinds.

  12. The element of mortality in the form is included in the transience of imagery.

  13. Here is another explanation of the transience of his affections,--in his horrified recoil from an unworthy object that he has idealized.

  14. The dark despair engendered by a sense of its transience is needed as a foil to the fiery splendors of passion.

  15. More important, the Zen idea of transience appeared.

  16. As the notion of beauty's transience became stronger, the term also came to include the feeling of poignancy as well as pleasure and the awareness that delight must perish.

  17. It expresses a timelessness unknown in earlier landscape gardens, particularly those of the Heian era, which, with their fading blossoms and falling leaves, were attuned to the poignant transience of life.

  18. The idea of transience seems to be one of the few Buddhist concepts that entered Heian aesthetics.

  19. One of the more lasting attitudes developed was the belief that transience enhanced loveliness.

  20. Many of the later verities of Zen art can be traced to this first philosophical melancholy over life's transience which developed in the Heian era.

  21. Not the transience of falling cherry blossoms but the fleeting instant of Zen enlightenment.

  22. Blake's Thel is a symbol of the transience of life.

  23. Take, for example, the transience of human life, a subject on which at times we most of us have keen vague thoughts that, we imagine, would be so profound could our tongues but utter them.


  24. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transience" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.