OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 19330

fleeting

/ˈfliːtɪŋ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
breve • efímero • fugaz • instantáneo • momentáneo • pasajero
Passing quickly; of short duration.
Architecture, sculpture, painting are static arts. Even in literature "our flying minds," as George Meredith says, cannot contain protracted description. It is so; for from sequenc…
As they passed, accelerating, on to the bridge and felt the first bite of the incline beyond, one had a fleeting glimpse of driver and fireman, illumined as by the fires of hell, t…