Passing

And solace sought he none from priest nor leech, / And soon the same in movement and in speech / As heretofore he fill'd the passing hours […]

[…]this is just a passing thing But I believe in your sweet loving, loving, babe With every summer falling rain

It might be possible to dismiss #dittowatch as just another passing internet fancy. After all, hashtags are ephemeral.

her passing deformity

It was by dint of passing strength, / That he moved the massy stone at length.

That parliament was destined, in one short hour of convulsive strength, in one short hour of passing glory, to humble the pride and alarm the fears of England.

to make a passing comment

to have a passing acquaintance with somebody or something

Ardent pro-lifer Rick Santorum made one passing reference to "authenticity" as a litmus test for a conservative candidate, but if he was obliquely referring to Romney (and he was), you could be excused for missing the dig.

passing cars

a passing transsexual

[...] for she was called a fair lady, and a passing wise, and her name was called Igraine.

How wonderful is Death, / Death and his brother Sleep! / One, pale as yonder waning moon / With lips of lurid blue; / The other, rosy as the morn / When throned on ocean's wave / It blushes o'er the world: / Yet both so passing wonderful!

She's passing fair; but so demure is she / So quiet is her gown, so smooth her hair, […]

I find it passing strange that convicts understand honest folk, but honest folk don't understand convicts.

And since he did not see Louie by the folding door, Louie knew that in his former passings and repassings he could not have seen her either.

But capital was proving difficult to raise; rumours were in the air that the G.W.R. and L.S.W.R. were about to patch up their quarrel, and the people of Southampton, who twelve months earlier had staged a torch-light procession to celebrate the passing of the D.N.S.R. Act, were increasingly loath to part with their cash.

When there is a discrepancy between an individual's actual social identity and his virtual one, it is possible for this fact to be known to us before we normals contact him, or to be quite evident when he presents himself before us. He is a discredited person, and it is mainly he I have been dealing with until now. … However, when his differentness is not immediately apparent, and is not known beforehand, … he is a discreditable, not a discredited person …. The issue is … that of managing information about his failing. To display or not to display; to tell or not to tell; to let on or not to let on; to lie or not to lie; and in each case, to whom, how, when, and where. … It is this second general issue, the management of undisclosed discrediting information about self, that I am focusing on in these notes - in brief, 'passing'.