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
“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
Photographers and editors have often described Rai's work as bridging reportage and art, combining immediacy with composition.
From BBC ● Apr. 27, 2026
Two Theoretical Results A large part of the attraction of probability theory is the immediacy and intuitive appeal of its practical problems and of the simple principles which enable us to solve many of them.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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
The ancient schisms of the Christian church can seem far removed, sometimes, from the exciting immediacies of Park Avenue.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under the steely immediacies of England's sky, it should make sensational reading.
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
Base immediacies fouled the truth on every man's lips.
From In the Days of the Comet by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
