evanescence

Examples from literature

About a sudden hillside, brilliantly blue, the evanescent mist hung over the heavy fronds, going out in the sunlight that was breaking through a grey sky. 
But even that joy was fleeting and evanescent: they never reached maturity. 
It arises when rigid ideal terms are imposed on evanescent existence. 
It is probably but an evanescent remedy, and capable of rendering the cattle safe during one night only. 
Like all the glories of the May woods it is evanescent. 

Examples of evanescent

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Due to their evanescent character, for surface gravity waves this dependence is on the scale of the dominant wavelength of the waves.
The second acoustic mode, with a phase velocity less than the thermal velocity, is found to be evanescent (refractive index purely imaginary).
We have shown that the branches with real frequency exist only if there are evanescent waves in the external regions.
The best rock, he believes, 'simultaneously achieves a synthesis of evanescent junk and lasting beauty and sets up a conflict between them' (p. 36).
In their model, the evanescent electromagnetic field in the skin layer of the overdense plasma was calculated, too.
It is pervasive, and it f lourishes in the personal, evanescent context of face-to-face exchange.
The merging of the concrete and the evanescent was the unique pathway to the abstract truth of the soul.
In some hands, the concept of peace has been so narrowly defined as to be evanescent or non-existent.
If it is evanescent then the multiplicity is 2 or 4, according to how many types of branches tend to the limiting solution.
No evidence is guaranteed to be pertinent, nor direct proof of a claim, just like relativity is supported by evanescent observations.
And yet this object is fragile and evanescent.
Yet language too is an object of sensory perception, even though it is more evanescent than others, especially in its spoken form.
It can be speculated that similar but evanescent structures are formed in liquids and solids near the glass transition, extending the generality of the phenomenon.
Similarly, autonomic reactivity is evanescent and more promptly responsive to rest, while cortisol responses persist over longer periods of time.
As the inertio-gravitywaves of zero frequency are evanescent, no waves are present in the lee of the obstacle.
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