immediacy
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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
In the immediacy of Disney, it sunk in as wondrous reflection on Donne’s line: “Though I speed not, I cannot miss.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
Rubens’s brushwork—hasty, light but confident—reflects as well as produces the immediacy of the scene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
It does not have the immediacy that it did in the tunnel.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
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
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
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
For he saw that amidst these petty immediacies he had lost touch with God.
From Soul of a Bishop by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
