immediacy

Example Sentences

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Plain language, ordinary intimacies—Ebert’s directness makes it possible to feel the moment with nearly the same unbearable immediacy that Penn creates in the film.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

When I hear the word potluck, I am transported, with a kind of olfactory immediacy, to the basement of my grandmother’s church.

From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026

Alternative statutory paths remain available to the administration, while none confer the same breadth or immediacy as IEEPA.

From Barron's • Feb. 21, 2026

Paradise Factory now bills itself as “bringing the rigor of theatrical discipline to the process of cinematic art, and bringing the intimacy and immediacy of the cinema into theatrical performance art.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026

It had a noisy, gritty immediacy that I never felt at Sidley.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama