All 7 Uses of
ephemeral
in
Love in the Time of Cholera
- ...contemplating with regret ... the ephemeral splendor of another afternoon that would never return.
Chpt 1 *ephemeral = existing only for a short time
- So that Florentino Ariza heard about many acts of disloyalty, and even some state secrets, which important clients and even local officials confided to their ephemeral lovers, not caring if they could be overheard in the adjoining rooms.†
Chpt 2
- She told him, convinced that it had been something so innocent and ephemeral that in fact it was rather touching.†
Chpt 4
- For his only point of reference in his own past was the ephemeral love affair with Fermina Daza, and only what concerned her had anything to do with reckoning his life.†
Chpt 4
- That, along with so many other ephemeral images in the course of so many years, would suddenly appear to Florentino Ariza at the whim of fate, and disappear again in the same way, leaving behind a throb of longing in his heart.†
Chpt 5
- He remembered Ãngeles Alfaro, the most ephemeral and best loved of them all, who came for six months to teach string instruments at the Music School and who spent moonlit nights with him on the flat roof of her house, as naked as the day she was born, playing the most beautiful suites in all music on a cello whose voice became human between her golden thighs.†
Chpt 5
- It was the first time in half a century that they had been so close and had enough time to look at each other with some serenity, and they had seen each other for what they were: two old people, ambushed by death, who had nothing in common except the memory of an ephemeral past that was no longer theirs but belonged to two young people who had vanished and who could have been their grandchildren.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(ephemeral) existing only for a short time