immediacy

1 In “Utøya,” we encounter a dying girl who quietly begs for her absent mother, and the primal immediacy of the scene eviscerates us.

2 By turns earnest and wicked, sweet and sarcastic and unsparing, Mr. Richards, now 66, writes with uncommon candor and immediacy.

3 Since then, he’s succeeded by preserving some of that same immediacy in more polished environs, as on “Stitches,” one of last year’s slyest and most effective pop songs.

4 “Beyond 9/11” delivers the same immediacy with the opposite approach: witnesses recount their experiences, without a visible interviewer, against a stark white background that intensifies the testimony.

5 To lend the tale immediacy, he sets the story in 1947 Paris.

6 Chude-Sokei’s prose is both direct and poetic, describing horrific trauma with such flat immediacy that at times I had to set the book down for a moment, just to process what I was reading.

7 But while he’s well served by the rugged immediacy of the mix — make no mistake, it’s an improvement — his songwriting lags noticeably behind his musical prowess.

8 Budion brings the new friendships to life with the immediacy of sharp memory and deep-rooted warmth.

9 The immediacy lends an edge of complicity; Ms Smith has said she thinks of it as telling “a true lie”.

10 His art is, above all, an art of portraiture; he films the people who he encounters largely head-on, looking at him as he looks at them, often in closeups of a tactile immediacy.

11 Her gifts to the song are vulnerability, understatement and immediacy: the listener is right there, at the base of the tree.

12 She is a thinker who craves the immediacy and intensity of feeling that comes easily to her husband, and also to her mother, an imposing actress more in tune with Victor than with her daughter.

13 Townshend says the band were at their peak as musicians when they recorded Quadrophenia, and the songs bear that out in their energy and immediacy.

14 In an eye-catching watercolor, “Minidoka, drawing by flashlight,” he creates a sense of offbeat immediacy by placing the viewer inside his point-of-view as he does a pencil sketch in his barrack.

15 The pair set about deciding how to tell the story in dance, and they realized that the art form, by virtue of its sheer immediacy, doesn’t lend itself to flashbacks.

16 It was written and shot on the still-hot lava of the molten events it depicted, hence its immediacy and vigour.

17 They had an immediacy that was almost the opposite of his carefully crafted portraits.

18 Many of the scenes resemble those captured by other photographers of internment, but the work’s rich colors lend it a rare immediacy.

19 The efficient direction by Morten Tyldum captures the immediacy and intensity of its subject’s work, yet cleverly folds in his later mistreatment as tragic counterpoint.

20 It was a paean to journalism that many journalists hated, an inside look at the immediacy of a 24-hour cable news division that was set two years in the past.

1 邻近

neighbor adjacent neighboring proximal close-in close-by approximal proximo- neighborhood propinquity vicinage

2 直观性

superrational

3 立即

p.d.q. immediate prompt instant instantaneous right fast quickly directly immediately straight instantly promptly outright momentarily thereupon therewith forthwith pronto lickety-split like a flash without a second thought at the drop of a hat without more ado right now at once right away right off in a flash right off the bat straight away without further ado

4 毗连

marginal abutting join touch abut butt border

5 迅速

smartish fast quick prompt rapid high-speed swift speedy runaway blistering quickly promptly apace sharpish speed at the double at a fast clip at a good clip at a steady clip at a fair lick at a lick like blazes like a bat out of hell at a rate of knots in a hurry

6 立刻

PDQ immediate prompt swift speedy now immediately Pat outright momentarily forthwith straightaway straightway offhandedly presto pronto off-hand tout de suite right away off in a jiffy in a jiff at once right now in a trice in less than no time in two shakes in two ticks in jig time right away in a few minutes here and now first off without delay

7 直接

direct positive straight immediate face-to-face proximate person-to-person directness straightforwardness instant flush intimate straightforward firsthand forthright just slap spang