immediacy

How To Use immediacy In A Sentence

• But when it's the sole story-telling medium, as here, I also think it has a slight distancing effect on the reader, robbing the action of some immediacy and urgency, which for modern sensibilities is perhaps not ideal when dealing with such dramatic events. Brian Ruckley - News & Views
• She is at her most urgent and evocative when she assumes the first person; otherwise the work's essayistic quality obtrudes upon the immediacy and music of the poetry.
• Those letters dealing with the minutiae of politics are much less self-conscious than the diaries and have the value of immediacy. THE GUARDSMEN
• This time round, the immediacy and breadth of much internet coverage has, for news junkies, already given it the edge over TV and print.
• But the story is enlivened by photographs, Evon Zerbetz's striking linocut illustrations, and excerpts from the Marzluffs' journals, which add a certain immediacy to recollections now more two decades old: "We hear the deck and even the trees popping, like shots from a rifle, especially when the temperature drops ­below 0° F," Colleen writes. Coming of Age as a Bird of Prey
• It jars a little at first but gives the film an immediacy and intimacy that belies the weighty subject matter. Times, Sunday Times
• The immediacy of his communicative performance made up more than enough for the occasional flat notes of which there were precious few in any case.
• As a consequence, these genres do not strive to show events in their experiential immediacy and do not use an excessively ornate style of presentation.
• Yet this brings an immediacy to what follows. Times, Sunday Times
• Boswell's Life retains its extraordinary immediacy; it has recorded his soundbites for posterity and shaped history's opinion of the learned, apophthegmatic Doctor.