near-at-hand

Farce, of course, depends on its characters’ failure to recognize what is near at hand; Wodehouse in his splendid isolation in France and in a bygone fictional Eden was incapable of recognizing the crisis in Britain was so near at hand that his broadcasts would strike hard at his countrymen’s diminishing morale.

The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves.

To the layperson, that sounds like Winsor has failed to notice what is near at hand, which is the essential element of farce, and in this case amounts to the triumphalist boasting by legislators and DeSantis that they scored a direct hit on Disney as a political adversary.

The quarterly snapshot of the nation's financial condition covering the business, household and government sectors also showed what had been a key source of U.S. household resilience through the COVID-19 pandemic - cash near at hand - crested in early 2022 and has declined by more than $500 billion since then.

At dark we emptied our pockets and backpacks of anything that smelled like food, stuffed it all back into our bear-resistant canister, stowed it far from the tent and zipped ourselves into our sleeping bags for the night, noise makers near at hand.