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.
  • The immediacy of the trade makes the move a win, now, for the win-now Knicks.
    Kristian Winfield, Hartford Courant, 11 Feb. 2024
  • But the long and short of it is the immediacy of impact is not felt.
    CBS News, 31 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • Amped up in a way that the history of the Steelers-Colts matchups might not have the same immediacy.
    Joel A. Erickson, Indianapolis Star, 31 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • There are tears onstage, as well, at the end of the first part, in a moment that brings a flesh-and-blood immediacy to the memory of those lost.
    Joshua Barone, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • Jones’s tale of coming of age in the South as a black, gay poet has a startling immediacy.
    Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • 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
  • But the energy of the tournament, the immediacy of the moment still carries the day.
    Tim Cowlishaw, Dallas News, 19 Mar. 2021
  • So relaxed, yet at the same time so charged with immediacy.
    Washington Post, 16 June 2021
  • 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
  • My goal is to create an experience today that has the depth of [the art of the past] but also the immediacy of what those things had in their own time.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
  • The immediacy of posting on social media might lead people to act first and think later.
    Tanyel Mustafa, refinery29.com, 16 July 2024
  • 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

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