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"ref": "1931, Martha Kinross, “The Screen — From This Side”, in The Fortnightly, volume 130, page 511:",
"text": "Architecture, sculpture, painting are static arts. Even in literature \"our flying minds,\" as George Meredith says, cannot contain protracted description. It is so; for from sequences of words they must assemble all the details in one simultaneous impression. But moments of fleeting beauty too transient to be caught by any means less swift than light itself are registered on the screen.",
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"text": "For starters, we see examples all the time of some middle-aged men trying to hang onto their own fleeting youth by sporting younger women on their arms.",
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"ref": "2010, Leslie Ludy, The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace, Harvest House Publishers, published 2010, →ISBN, page 5:",
"text": "And I am inspired afresh to pursue the stunning beauty of Christ rather than the fleeting beauty of this world.",
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