transitory nature

collocation in English

meaningsoftransitoryandnature

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transitory
adjective
uk
/ˈtræn.zɪ.tər.i/us
/ˈtræn.sə.tɔːr.i/
lasting for only a ...
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nature
noun
uk
/ˈneɪ.tʃər/us
/ˈneɪ.tʃɚ/
all the animals, plants, rocks, etc. in the world and all the features, forces, and processes that happen or exist independently of people, such as the weather, the sea, mountains, the production of young animals or plants, ...
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(Definition oftransitoryandnaturefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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With its ambiguous,transitorynature, the offstage softens the sharpness between the fictional and the real world: it is related to both but possessed by neither.
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Space and motion were now inseparable, and the tower's aerodynamic form might be seen readily to express thetransitorynatureof mass in motion in the space-time continuum.
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The occupier may be a tenant of a verytransitorynaturewith no real interest in the property.
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The mechanism for appointment of such a caretaker reflects the exceptional andtransitorynatureof the appointment.
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That emphasises thetransitorynatureof a miner's life.
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It now seems much more of atransitorynaturethan it originally was and apparently it could even be voided solely on the fiat of the local authority.
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The definition of the family unit also needs to be drawn widely to reflect the fairly loose structure of the modern family and the sometimestransitorynatureof familial relationships.
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Prominent among those are the conflict of interest between dedicated services and stopping services; and thetransitorynatureof the special demand in the year 2000.
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Did not the wayfarer stop and reflect upon thetransitorynatureof his earthly life and was he not reminded that our lives are but a stage in our eternity?
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Odour nuisances are generally of atransitorynature.
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It highlights his historical and mythical role as well as his discussion of thetransitorynatureof power.
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The predominant tone is one of desolation, recalling thetransitorynatureof love and the emptiness it leaves in its wake.
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His works are meditations on space, thetransitorynatureof commonplace objects and the collisions that occur with their displacement.
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The film was in a way reflective of his own views on life and thetransitorynatureof fame and success in the film world.
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Census data is unreliable due to thetransitorynatureof the group.
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Archivists and historians have noticed the relative non-permanence ortransitorynatureof digital media.
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The latter, double-marked, form tends to imply atransitorynatureof the action.
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The name is usually used to imply an interim ortransitorynature, or avoid attempting a claim to being the highest law, often for religious reasons.
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The sculptures make a robust impression, threatening, but at the same time they are ambivalent, because decay, and the object'stransitorynatureare themes that are recurring in his work.
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Ridgers's photography captured thetransitorynatureof culture, a fleeting glimpse into what arrives, passes and is gone.
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