evanescence

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• This piece serves as a substantial conjurer of what we might term the castrati-c imagination through its vivid representation of the materiality of sound as music, and one that locates this sound visually in a manner that does not oppose it to its evanescence, its temporality. Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
• In the same paper I had speculated on the possible occurrence of acetylcholine in the animal body, and on its physiological significance if it should be found there; and had pointed out the extraordinary evanescence of its action, suggesting that an esterase probably contributed to its rapid removal from the blood. Sir Henry Dale - Nobel Lecture
• Steps start off classical – pirouettes from fourth position – then acquire jazzy helicopter arms, or evaporate into a noodling evanescence. Birmingham Royal Ballet: Pointes of View
• With Skeletons, set for release in the first quarter of 2010, Hawthorne Heights has moved on, aided in part by a new label affiliation, Wind-Up Records, home of Creed, Seether and Evanescence. Tucson Weekly
• Perhaps fear of evanescence will then start to pass away. There's a big cloud hanging over your hard drive | Observer editorial
• Our insistence on evanescence, consciousness and diaphanous impressionism distorts the book that forms in our minds, like the slight misimpression on the pottery wheel that tilts the eventual cup.
• Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.
• Chief among the griefs that she visits in this and her other novels is the tragedy inherent in the evanescence of all things human.
• Jennifer grabbed her car door for support, and was heated with the evanescence of the shock wave, a slight tremble of the ground.
• Their lives are thrown into a spin by their esteemed relative's presence, but this tale ends quietly in a little wisp of smoke, an exquisite reminder of the evanescence of things.