1.Lasting for a markedly brief time:"There remain some truths too ephemeral to be captured in the cold pages of a court transcript"(Irving R. Kaufman). 2.Having a short lifespan or a short annual period of aboveground growth. Used especially of plants. ...
While ephemera is always at risk of being dispersed or lost, collectors play a large role in the ongoing process of preserving it and shaping its meaning. 展开 关键词: ephemera job printing collectors and collecting John Selden, 1584–1654 Samuel Pepys, 1633–1703 John Bagford, 1650–1716 ...
Take up your Latin and Greek dictionaries, and find out the meaning of "Spirit." It is only a contraction of the Latin word "breath," and an indistinct translation of the Greek word for "wind." The same word is used in writing, "The wind bloweth where is listeth;" and in writing,...
The media saturation of BASE jumping thus serves to elongate and expand the meaning of an ephemeral event; to construct a multi-faceted audience for a seemingly secretive endeavor; and, ultimately, to render BASE jumping indistinguishable from the mediated representation of it....
Olympia, then, is at its heart a painting that lambastes capitalism and the new status quo of money relations and falsity. Yet at the same time the painting fails to take the next step to begin to form an alternative identity. Through Olympia, Manet was able to critique, but he was ...
PARKING THE ARK IN NIAGARA FALLS: MORDECAI MANUEL NOAH AND THE IMPOSITION OF MEANING IN JEWISH AMERICAN LITERARY HISTORY She argues that by uniting flesh and spirit, the specimen-solder epitomized the ideal love object Whitman conjured throughout Leaves of Grass--not yet a corpse, but already so...
Biochemical basis for whole-cell uptake kinetics: specific affinity, oligotrophic capacity, and the meaning of the Michaelis constant. Appl Environ Microbiol. 1991;57:2033–8. CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Pernthaler J. Predation on prokaryotes in the water column and its ecological ...
What are we really asking when we ask about the meaning of life? Partly, it seems, we are asking about our relationship with the rest of the universe – who we are and how we came to be here. One aspect of this is a scientific question about our origins. To which the answer, only...
Peking University's School of Arts. He works in aesthetics and philosophy of art, focusing on the contemporary analytic philosophy of music, particularly on the topic of musical meaning and expressiveness. He received his Ph.D. ...
expression in such cases has reference to content. Or it refers to that which has been acquired; we are said to 'have' a house or a field. A man is also said to 'have' a wife, and a wife a husband, and this appears to be the most remote meaning of the term, for by the use...