How to Use immediacy in a Sentence

immediacy

noun
  • 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.
  • Because of the increase, the immediacy of burial has been an obstacle.
    NBC News, 26 Apr. 2020
  • Much of the art of The Birth of a Nation owes to cinema’s unique sense of you-are-there immediacy.
    Armond White, National Review, 17 Jan. 2020
  • The simplicity of her present-tense verbs bring the immediacy of Fox’s work into the reader’s mind, the breathless now-ness of it all.
    Jim Higdon, The Courier-Journal, 2 Mar. 2020
  • What makes a band a living, breathing thing is getting out in front of an audience and playing live, with all the risks and the spontaneity and the immediacy of that.
    David Lindquist, Indianapolis Star, 11 Jan. 2020
  • The immediacy of e-mail allows fundraising pitches to ride hot on the news or blast out a link to the latest Fox News appearance.
    Jake Bernstein, The New York Review of Books, 8 Apr. 2020
  • Political reporters tend to overreact to what was said yesterday, as if immediacy were synonymous with truth.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2020
  • The tactile immediacy of dafatir works to counter that invisibility.
    Eli Jelly-Schapiro, The New York Review of Books, 15 Feb. 2020
  • The process relies on immediacy and human interaction, two things coronavirus has crippled, even as the virus has hit Jewish seniors hard.
    NBC News, 26 Apr. 2020
  • The album’s rise has been a slow burn with rising sales and streams the way albums and songs used to be marketed, a juxtaposition to the immediacy of streaming dictating hits and flops right away.
    Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2024
  • Where style is manufactured or arch, a mask that distances, voice, despite being performed and constructed, is a tool of immediacy and intimacy.
    Christine Smallwood, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • Gottlieb is a fast talker who speaks in sound bites, and is drawn to the immediacy and directness of Twitter–another asset during a fast-evolving pandemic.
    Jamie Ducharme, Time, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The immediacy of the trade makes the move a win, now, for the win-now Knicks.
    Kristian Winfield, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • The immediacy of the news is Andy Dalton will take over for Prescott in 2020.
    Calvin Watkins, Dallas News, 11 Oct. 2020
  • What mattered most was the immediacy of the singing and the acting.
    Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
  • 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
  • There may be an immediacy to the funding, but the impact will be long term.
    Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 17 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • My favorite thing to do as an actor is to create real danger and fear and immediacy on the set.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024

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