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

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024