Today, however, stories often color her as more human, emphasizing her ghost-like nature and ephemeral beauty.

It was as if that contrast in colors, the ephemeral beauty that only nature-even in the most unexpected moments-can create, were the trigger.

It also provided an ephemeral, even disposable beauty that subverts traditional expectations of weight, craft and permanence in art objects.

From simple acts like this came moments of startling, ephemeral beauty whose genesis the viewer reconstructs.

The people can scarcely believe the ephemeral beauty and romantic chivalry of their new king.

Images of her epitomized the late 19th- and early 20th-century Western preoccupation with youthful features and ephemeral beauty.

Hana had inherited all her mother's ephemeral beauty: porcelain skin, heart-shaped face, deeply etched, sensual lips.

John Zuck classified it as "spiritual fiction," paying particular attention to the religious theme of holding on to ephemeral beauty (i.e. the short-lived summer).

There is about one week of ephemeral beauty in Tokyo - the city's blossoms last just that long - toward the end of March or early April.

Rihanna looks like an ephemeral beauty in her latest musical for her upbeat hit 'Only Girl (In the World).'