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excoriate : (verb) To censure strongly.; abrade, condemn, denounce; The newspaper printed an editorial that excoriated the administration for its inaction. 

ephemeral : adjective: Lasting a very short time; transitory.
noun: Anything short-lived.
; "'Collin is an ephemeral artist,' Nikolaus bragged.
'Oh, whoa, like street art and fireworks?' Travis asked. ...
'You're an artist too?' Collin asked.
'I wish. I'm a hairdresser.'
'That's an ephemeral art,' Collin said."
Anitra Lynn McLeod; Oops! Gargoyle; 2020.

"You do not recognize the name now, but you would have in 2000. This is
the problem of ephemeral fame. Katherine Harris was the Secretary of
something for the state of Florida. She was in the middle of the
controversy over vote-counting in the 2000 election. Her nights were
apparently no less frenetic than her days during that period. She had
dreams. In one of them, she confided to friends, she saw herself riding
a horse into a stadium full of Republican fans and delivering the
trophy of victory to them. I am not certain how her dream squares with
her duties of impartiality. I suspect the American legal profession has
developed a legally protected freedom to dream, established through a
lot of expensive litigation."
Philip Blackpeat; The War of Art; iUniverse; 2005.


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Thought For The Day: One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for
inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit
at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the
surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully. -Arthur
Sullivan, composer (13 May 1842-1900)