It was the planlessness, the flimsy temporariness of the buildings, their faded unpleasant colors.

If not, we risk increasing those feelings of alienation and temporariness that effect our youth so violently.

The occupation's putative temporariness enabled liberal Zionists to see themselves as genuine liberals, to define Israel as a democracy.

He heard the temporariness of the phrase he'd chosen and realized he wouldn't have put it that way in front of Madeleine.

Of course, all advanced bases are distant bases, but the words usually imply temporariness, as does in fact the word "advance."

Indeed, the designation "provisional" carries a lame-duck status, since it conveys a sense of temporariness that undermines the stability of a regime.