How to Use immediacy in a Sentence

immediacy

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  • There is an immediacy to watching a live performance that you cannot get from hearing a recording.
  • Television coverage gave the war greater immediacy than it had ever before had.
  • Nothing in news equates right now to the immediacy of the events in Ukraine.
    — Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The goal throughout was to move in tight on the food to give the shots the immediacy of Instagram.
    — Jill Wendholt Silva, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
  • The film brings the past to life with a vividness and an immediacy that seem wrenched from Davies’s very soul.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 31 May 2022
  • Still, the immediacy of the threat to Kyiv was unclear.
    — Yuras Karmanau, ajc, 11 Mar. 2022
  • For him the 1990s slid by in the immediacy of childhood and the certainties of his parents’ faith.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • But that immediacy and reach on and off TikTok comes at a price.
    — Chris Stokel-Walker, Wired, 1 Mar. 2022
  • First among things to consider is the immediacy of the threat.
    — Tom Siegfried, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Vocals had a stunning immediacy while the range was wide, with adept use of bass as well as mid notes.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The result is a book to match the best things ever written on the subject in terms of immediacy and drama.
    — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2022
  • The winner's lei around his neck was a sweet smell and allowed time to reflect even in the immediacy of winning.
    — Doug Ferguson, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024
  • Yet White’s script can’t quite live up to the pictures’ immediacy.
    — Vulture, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Stoker wanted to give his story immediacy, and this was the best way to do it.
    — Jeremy Dauber, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Every adage is true: our hearts have doubled in size and the immediacy of the love is astounding.
    — Angela Andaloro, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2023
  • One of the issues, maybe the biggest, is the immediacy of social media.
    — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The book, written in the present tense, as if Vanessa is writing directly to her cousin, has a sad immediacy.
    — Nora Krug, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2023
  • With Gladys gone, that leaves an emotional void around the title character, which may be true to life, but robs the film of immediacy.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2022
  • The immediacy of the calming effect can be helpful in a tense moment.
    — Diane Herbst, PEOPLE.com, 16 Dec. 2021
  • But the grit and immediacy of the images were difficult to deny.
    — Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 29 Feb. 2024
  • There’s a tendency, in the world of arts and culture, to urge people to watch a production or a film or a program with big gusts of immediacy.
    — Janelle Harris Dixon, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Feb. 2023
  • And for over a decade, the guitar legend who first made a name for himself with Guns N’ Roses has wanted to capture the immediacy of such records in the studio.
    — Jon Wiederhorn, Billboard, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Meanwhile, none of these artists got to tour in support of their new music, reducing the immediacy of these records and truncating the buzz around them.
    — Angela Watercutter, Wired, 20 Dec. 2021
  • Yet even the immediacy of the first section’s storytelling cranks up to 11 with the second narrative.
    — Melissa Holbrook Pierson, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
  • Nowhere else than in Hawthorne’s own hand is the immediacy of these final sentences of the second chapter more palpable.
    — Ted Scheinman, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2023
  • The seriousness and immediacy of the Dobbs decision has been felt across the country.
    — Daniel Strauss, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2022
  • One of the mighty but silent tensions at the heart of Armageddon Time is the gap between the regretful understanding of an adult and the impulsive immediacy of a child.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2022
  • In the immediacy of an approaching season, he’s said this may be his biggest challenge thus far.
    — Matt Cohen | McOhen@al.com, al, 21 July 2023
  • Levy evokes all of these events with clarity and immediacy that will keep readers turning pages.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 6 May 2023
  • But the problems with the book, which lacks some dramatic immediacy, remain.
    — Juan A. Ramírez, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2022

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