fleetingly

fleeting | American Dictionary

fleeting
adjective
us/ˈfli·t̬ɪŋ/
brief or quick:
He had a fleeting moment of panic but quickly recovered.

Examples of fleeting

fleeting
But can we really handle the fleeting nature of sound, the escape of sound(scapes)?
Where the effort to create constitutional monarchy proved fleeting, the move to a ministerial system has endured.
The "linguistic turn" and the (fleeting) hegemony of "discourse" are, perhaps, rough parallels.
Fleeting references (i. 470 -7) to these issues are confined to illustrating missionary irritation at both.
There are fleeting moments where fragments become phonemes and a vowel sound leans towards the possibility of speech.
It is a test of individual wills and strength of principle, from which the surviving combatants learn to appreciate the fleeting joy of human existence.
But we do have some fleeting glimpses in the records.
It was a disappointment, a fleeting exhibition of basic puppet skills in a place meant to be a centre for preserving string puppetry.
For a fleeting moment, one could capture a state of congruence between self and world.
The technologies of social discipline create the fleeting appearance of freedom only to make the reality of pervasive control more palatable.
Though these finely coordinated displays are fleeting at this point in the story, such collaborations escalate as the story continues.
His fleeting glimpses of pedestrians establish ' ' anonymous connection amid the relentless flow of urban life.
They doubt whether such fleeting moments of national pride are viable foundations for enduring reconciliation.
The hallucinatory quality is unmistakable, even for "fleeting" images and "sleepiness" sensations that occur prior to the more fully formed hypnagogic images themselves.
The conditions that made it seem so were real, but fleeting, and it was not long before they were swept away.
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