immediacy

Example Sentences

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Perhaps, but it also gave an immediacy bordering on desperation to a story of teenage identity, poisonous social media and murder.

From The Wall Street Journal

“It’s the immediacy of the feedback from people they don’t even know. And it can be so impactful on their identity and how they see themselves as a player on the court.”

From Seattle Times

But whether either side would want a return was hard to know in the immediacy of the moment.

From Seattle Times

Gone was the fiery rhetoric from 2018, when he talked about the state’s high poverty rate, income inequality and the importance of embracing “the immediacy of the problems before us.”

From New York Times

But to agree that these are universal human issues doesn’t deny that a queer person — and particularly a queer artist — will usually perceive them more pervasively, and with greater immediacy and urgency.

From New York Times