At first, it seemed that regression dressing would be a fleeting phenomenon.

If any part of the planet could have been said to be ruled to any degree, by anyone, it was a fleeting phenomenon related to who had the deadliest weapon at any given moment.

Moonrise, like sunrise, was a fleeting phenomenon, the more precious because of that.

Just as shadows are temporary, inconsequential epiphenomena produced by physical objects, physical objects are themselves fleeting phenomena caused by more substantial causes, the ideals of which they are mere instances.

That is why video is apt at capturing and condensing at least the outer aspects of the fleeting phenomenon of growing up.

Folk tales are full of fleeting phenomena like will o' the wisps, faint glows that must have spooked our ancestors.

Its popularity made it a fleeting social phenomenon and a minor cultural footnote.

Many whispered that he did not have the intellectual depth or vision to lead the country, and that he would end up heading a breakaway party that could be a fleeting phenomenon.

Outing may be a fleeting phenomenon.

However, history suggests that consensus is usually a fleeting phenomenon, and the current stasis most likely represents a period in which new forces are gathering, largely out of public view.