Their agenda is somewhat evanescent: They hope to rebuild a sense of community in America.

FORBES: The Radical Philanthropist

Bureaucrats preserve their prerogatives against evanescent political pressure (Lord Young has long since departed the government).

ECONOMIST: Bagehot

That claim is based on a single opinion poll, so it may prove evanescent even if true.

WSJ: Best of the Web Today: A Crisis of Authority

Yet the invention of technology to capture this evanescent experience has radically changed this essential mode of communication.

ECONOMIST: Rediscovering music with Talking Heads�� front man

It was like seeing a startlingly vivid apparition of an evanescent and vanished city that I still mourn the loss of, in a way.

WSJ: Considering an Underground Park in New York

Kentucker and Rose face their evanescent intimacy with sharp, anti-romantic wisdom, while the more practical, less hardened Jake and Lucy suffer for their heightened ideals and expectations.

NEWYORKER: Open Five

It is the floating evanescent bubble of self.

WSJ: Bret Stephens: Obama and the Copenhagen Syndrome

"The 90%" who supposedly support gun background checks is an even more evanescent construct--the result of a poll, which presumably questioned a few hundred randomly called people, few of whom likely had thought deeply about the subject.

WSJ: Best of the Web Today: Fascism by the Numbers

In contrast to the 18th-century vedutisti painters (Canaletto, Guardi and others) who capture images of Venice down to the last detail, Sargent imparts an evanescent place, where shimmering light constantly changes not just the water but even the supposedly immobile structures.

WSJ: Fluid, Evanescent Images | John Singer Sargent Watercolors | Brooklyn Museum | By Tom L. Freudenheim