Why back down on a perfectly good argument, to preserve so ephemeral a thing?
And a little girl's drawings were ephemeral things to start with.
It occurred to her that pleasure, no matter how deep, was a ghostly, ephemeral thing.
"We can never get the songs, the dances, the interpersonal communications - the ephemeral things, in other words."
Such an ephemeral thing, you could not even see it.
These creatures-these Sarn-were ephemeral things about her, for all their five hundred years.
They are in many ways extremely foolish, but that is only in the ephemeral things of life.
He writes that they do not attach themselves to anything except ephemeral things and soon get bored.
It was such an ephemeral thing to pin his hopes on, that talent.
Sometimes, this is because the words are yoked to highly ephemeral things - like Hollywood marriages.
