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comparative more fugacious, superlative most fugacious
Fleeting, fading quickly, transient. quotations examples
Restless, shifting, fugacious as time itself is a certain vast bulk of the population of the red brick district of the lower West Side. Homeless, they have a hundred homes.
1906, O. Henry, “The Furnished Room”, in The Four Million
Watering of the eye, conjunctival congestion, distinct catarrhal conjunctivitis, and deep-seated scleral congestions, sometimes fugacious, and often accompanied by intense headache […]
1916, George Edmund De Schweinitz, Diseases of the Eye, page 589
It may be that Redford's fugacious nature is not so mysterious, that it is studded in the artwork of the labs and the very stones of Sundance.
2011, Michael Feeney Callan, Robert Redford: The Biography, Alfred A. Knopf, page xvii