On occasion he is transported by a transient beauty that can't be pickled in time, not even by the motion-picture camera.

The clarity of Leilani's features promised that hers was not the transient beauty of childhood, but an enduring quality.

A well-informed mind, nice manners and a gentle nature -all of these are much more likely to contribute to a husband's happiness than mere transient beauty.

Bosing concluded however that a medieval mindset was naturally suspicious of material beauty, in any form, and that the sumptuousness of Bosch's description may have been intended to convey a false paradise, teeming with transient beauty.

The beauty of the flowers is preserved indefinitely, but they were killed in the process - a fitting metaphor for the futility of trying to preserve transient beauty.

Would to God the dear girl had had the smallpox in a mortifying manner, then she'd be lovely in the excellencies of her mind only and out of dangers of suffering from the transient beauties of countenance.

It was rose-pink, tiny bubbles rising to burst in transient beauty, leaving a ring of temporary rainbows.

If he preferred to frolic in the marsh rather than live seriously at the plantation, and if he needed the transient beauty of this wild creature rather than the stately assurance of an educated wife, so much the worse for him.

Better to let eyes absorb this transient beauty; better to permit ears and skin to feel sudden stillness descend upon this land in the quick darkness after the orange vanished.

The Bird Song sculptures hang like floating musical notes of a melody and resonate with a transient beauty found in nature.