It is an old town, a throwback, not given to the transience of urban sprawl.

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But then, Jobs himself would be the first to point to the transience of all human endeavors.

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Already in his fourth assignment, Father Malin has also had to get used to the transience of a priest's life.

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And right there, in that romantic, melancholy acknowledgment of the necessity and the transience of beauty, is the key that unlocks the protean Patrick Kinmonth.

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Song writers from the period showed a remarkable degree of maturity in trying to capture what the new transience in sexual relationships actually meant.

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She has said the germ of the idea for the novel was "the notion of transience that hotels are all about, and at the same time the notion of tiered social hierarchies" - with three characters trapped in their class roles.

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While he tried to qualify this somewhat at the press conference with the caveat "when they are no longer needed, " he conveyed an impression of U.S. transience and determination to disengage from the Middle East that can only encourage its allies to hedge their bets by giving new weight to relations with Moscow.

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It was a season of uncertain and drifting identity, of upheaval and limbo, of anxiety and laughter, of transience and transients, situated in the Laventura itself, and, more precisely, on the sixth floor of that establishment, in a two-bedroom apartment, with two roommates at a strange crossroads.

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Ever matter-of-fact, she liked that thought of transience, and always refused to sit for the painted portraits that might have lasted.

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