immediacy
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He used a largely unknown cast and shot with an almost documentary immediacy, cutting between the plane and air-traffic controllers trying to make sense of what was happening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
Lee said: "It is really a once in a lifetime experience, you have a very real feeling of immediacy and freedom, and you get a great view."
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
“When people are living together, there’s the opportunity for spontaneous interaction, rather than formal events. There’s immediacy to connecting when people are in the same space.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 2026
Their position near eye level gives these scenes an unusual immediacy, drawing us inescapably into these harrowing spectacles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Pauline Hawthorne’s work, she learned, was known for its immediacy and its intimacy, for interrogating images of femininity and identity.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
I was engaging with the middle and upper class for the first time – it was surreal, seeing people who didn’t have to worry about the immediacies of life.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2020
In almost everything he discussed with the leaders of Asia, President Nixon found it necessary to deal in immediacies: a shooting war, changing alliances, a U.S. troop withdrawal that has already begun.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under the steely immediacies of England's sky, it should make sensational reading.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ancient schisms of the Christian church can seem far removed, sometimes, from the exciting immediacies of Park Avenue.
From Time Magazine Archive
"There are areas of human behavior—" Bennington observed that Scott and Mosby had turned away from the conversation to the immediacies of patrol distribution.
From Take the Reason Prisoner by John Joseph McGuire
