Every nerve-end in his body quivered and his imagination was swamped with a flood of shattering ephemeral horrors.
"The Instant of Now"
Irving E. Cox, Jr.
Pointed contemporary satire has, from the very shape it must assume, an ephemeral success.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
But the political oration is usually not poetry, as it has a tendency to the ephemeral.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell