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tending to vanish like vapor- I try to capture the evanescent beauty of the sunset in my photographs.
evanescent = tending to vanish like vapor
- An infinite distress possessed Razumov, annihilated his energy, and before his eyes everything appeared confused and as if evanescent.Conrad, Joseph -- Under Western Eyes
- There is nothing more beautiful, I think, than the evanescent fleeting images and sentiments presented by a language one is just becoming familiar with—ideas that flit across the mental sky, shaped and tinted by capricious fancy.Helen Keller -- Story of My Life
- ...evanescent flushes played upon her cheeks and neck...Shaw, George Bernard -- An Unsocial Socialist
- Fyne's young disciples were to her husband's gravity no more than evanescent shadows.Conrad, Joseph -- Chance
- it asked, vigorous and evanescent at the same time, overcoming the strength of the wind, and swept away from Jukes instantly.Conrad, Joseph -- Typhoon
- The fur trade itself, which has given life to all this portraiture, is essentially evanescent.Irving, Washington -- The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West
- Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent.Emerson, Ralph Waldo -- Essays, First Series
- What, then, would it avail the reader to know their names, or the evanescent symbols of their martial rank!Scott, Walter -- Ivanhoe
- In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent.Melville, Herman -- Moby Dick I-LXVII
- She examined me intently, and I could detect a curious shifting and shading of feelings on her face, too evanescent and ambiguous for definition.Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
- There was something evanescent about Morel, she thought, something shifting and false.D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
- So evanescent and unstable are men's works in this world!Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
- Silvery dancing strands that seemed the pure play of light , light as evanescent news, ideas borne on light.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- There was a knock at the door, and that connection between them-evanescent as a butterfly that lands on your hand-broke.Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
- Although this event failed not of a vivid effect upon my disordered imagination, yet was it evanescent as vivid.Edgar Allan Poe -- William Wilson
- At multiple depths, as far as I could see, there were evanescent trails of phosphorescent green bubbles, the wake of speeding fish.Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
- Centuries telescoped into one evanescent moment.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- A book not so much full of birds as full of evanescence, of blue-winged, trumpeting mysteries.Anthony Doerr -- All the Light We Cannot See
- In times of strong emotion mankind disdain all base considerations; but such times are evanescent.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
evanescent = tending to vanish like vapor