ephemeral

Digital maps, for all their miraculous real-time updates and traffic algorithms, are fundamentally ephemeral and devoid of such sentimental resonance.

The available options were rigidly bifurcated into expensive hardcovers and ephemeral, low-quality magazines that offered little intellectual nourishment.

Looking back, it is astonishing to consider how an ephemeral moment of boredom at a provincial train station instigated such a sweeping cultural metamorphosis.

His magnificent memoir, “Life on the Mississippi,” stands as a beautifully poignant elegy to this ephemeral golden age of steamboat navigation.