Such suffering is a temporary stage in a developmental process.

A handsome temporary stage has been set up for a series of concerts by young artists that will begin later this month.

A temporary stage was set up in the square, with flowers all along the front.

Every Saturday of their lives they had a temporary stage put up in the school-room and we all had to help.

After the redesign, the festival would play on a temporary stage.

The observation platform made a perfect temporary stage for just such an event.

Nita and I sat there watching the proceedings alongside the three steps up to the temporary stage.

They carried him into a ballroom, under cover of a temporary, curtained stage.

Eyeing the floor of the temporary stage, he added, "This is not such bad wood."

So the charring is just a temporary stage which would happen to the paper before its final hydrogenation.