Both Uses
fleeting
in
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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- "We only live once, Sergeant," said Mitty, with his faint, fleeting smile.†
*fleeting = lasting a short time
- Then, with that faint, fleeting smile playing about his lips, he faced the firing squad; erect and motionless, proud and disdainful, Walter Mitty the Undefeated, inscrutable to the last.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(fleeting) lasting a short time
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)