will-of-the-wisp

After all, as you know well, man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad selves, a continual becoming but never being, a will-of-the-wisp flitting of ghosts in ghostland.

Chapter 37 2010

Spending huge amounts of money chasing some will-of-the-wisp idea about MMR vaccine and autism, when that hypothesis (tenuous to begin with) has already been comprehensively debunked, means that same amount of money is not available to examine more friutful avenues of research.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

Ah, those will-of-the-wisp days of Broadway, when we used to go to see shows like "Roar of the Greasepaint, Smell of the Crowd" with Anthony Newley.

Archive 2006-04-02 Miss Snark 2006

Hope glimmers, yet I know a "full request" depends on the will-of-the-wisp all the same.

Archive 2006-04-02 Miss Snark 2006

The possibility that he might be following a will-of-the-wisp infuriated the Cimmerian.

The Conquering Sword of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

The possibility that he might be following a will-of-the-wisp infuriated the Cimmerian.

The Conquering Sword Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2005

Last Man but it always turns out to be a will-of-the-wisp.

Paley, "Apocalypse Without Millenium" Part 2 1989

In 427 the first mention was made of the will-of-the-wisp which in time led Athens to her ruin.

Authors of Greece T. W. Lumb

He is a kind of a will-of-the-wisp, a little something of a devil, and from top to toe a great rogue.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various

Be he man, will-of-the-wisp, or the devil Beelzebub in person, I bid him defiance.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Various