imminence

[ US /ˈɪmənəns/ ]
[ UK /ˈɪmɪnəns/ ]
NOUN
  1. the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon
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How To Use imminence In A Sentence

  • More than three insiders buying or selling may just indicate the imminence of positive or negative news.
  • The very imminence of war has already galvanized the peace movement.
  • Rent reviews tend to run in five-year cycles, so if the rent being paid seems low for the location, assess the imminence and likely impact of the next review.
  • Millenarian movements require a charismatic leader to bind together disparate, unconnected people, and, by convincing them of the imminence of the Apocalypse, turn them into a revolutionary force.
  • And even though I wasn't at the awards ceremony, to hear my name thanked (of course!) in front of millions of viewers, along with the imminence of Sideways being Alexander Payne's next film, I truly began to believe that all the suffering and heartache, panic attacks, etc. had finally dealt me an almost mythological reprieve (I'm thinking of Lazarus here!) Rex Pickett: The Sideways Publishing Saga -- Part III: Whiplash; Dismay!
  • The rating must also consider the imminence of the threat or the opportunity.
  • His youth was apparently much like mine, not a youth of athleticism so much as a preoccupancy with wonder and the imminence of beauty surrounding all things. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
  • Perhaps more to the point, however, Heidegger's secularized meditation on the imminence of death and the responsibilities that devolve to us as a result owe more to the heroic literature of Ernest Juenger.
  • His characters live with the imminence of catastrophe on a daily basis.
  • How concerned should be we be about the imminence of an earthquake there?
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