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Example sentences for: momentary
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A few cute hats, most of them faintly satirical, costumey, and historical, were worn by a few cute people for momentary effect.
Rather than celebrate the transformation of his vices into virtues, they argued that his momentary virtues will revert to vices.
Finally, when he learns that Judy has been murdered, he can barely breathe, his anguish seems nearly unendurable, but it's only a momentary spasm, he regains his soulless equanimity, and as he quietly intones his last lines--"The greatest pleasure in life [is] the sweet, ever-changing caress of an early evening breeze"--we realize we've witnessed the exquisitely ironic fusion of elegy and despair, the inseparable linking of a brilliant text and a superb performance.
Marketers will do anything that seems to promise a momentary fit with the elusive Zeitgeist , or at least a surge of attention.
Clichés are the background noise of speech; attention spans being as brief as they are and the ability to sustain a prolonged period of concentration differing considerably among individuals (even if one assumes that the subject under discussion is of some interest to the listener), the insertion in speech of clichés acts to give the overworked cells a rest, however momentary, from overdosing on information.