Danielle Trussoni

As a girl, I used to zip myself into a snowsuit, fall into the deepest snowdrift I could find and sweep my arms and legs into the powder, making snow angels that would crumble within minutes of their genesis. Despite their rapid disappearance, something about these frozen, evanescent angels has stayed with me ever since.

American Writer

Jeffrey Eugenides

I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.

American Novelist

William Godwin

The soul of man is one of those subtle and evanescent substances that, as long as they remain still, the organ of sight does not remark; it must become agitated to become visible.

English Writer

Jacques Lacan

We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.

French Psychologist

Camille Paglia

If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.

American Author

David Shields

I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.

John Updike

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

Harrison Ford

The actor's popularity is evanescent; applauded today, forgotten tomorrow.

American Actor

Samuel Butler

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

British Poet

Use 'evanescent' to describe something that fades out or ends rapidly, not just physically but perhaps in memory or importance.

Quick Disappearance

'Evanescent' often has a neutral or slightly positive connotation, not usually used in a negative context.

Seldom Negative

'Evanescent' is popular in literary or poetic contexts for its descriptive elegance.

Poetic Expression

When used in physics, 'evanescent' refers to precise scientific phenomena, not just general fading.

Technical Speak

In physics, 'evanescent' often describes waves that travel near surfaces, not through open space.

Bound to Surfaces

An evanescent wave in physics may be imperceptible to the human eye but important in applications like microscopy.

Not Always Visible

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The future of lying -...

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