Noun, : the immediacies of everyday living. From Dictionary.com.
"I am suspicious of Singhalissa's immediacies," said Efraim. From Wordnik.com. [Marune: Alastor 933]
But a thorny tendril twined about his hand, causing him to divert his attention to immediacies. From Wordnik.com. [Juxtaposition]
In the shelter-cairn I take a flask from my rucksack, and a spyglass and notebook from my pockets to survey and record the immediacies of bliss. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Garndolbenmaen] Reference
This is I think a problem that can plague artists; to want so much to align themselves with the common immediacies of the world, but to do it distinctly. From Wordnik.com. [t=e=m=p=e=r=a=m=e=n=t : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
She seemed very remote, the recollection of her blurred by his immediacies, as if she were someone he had known in a past that had long slipped through his fingers. From Wordnik.com. [Three Worlds To Conquer]
Leisure is needed because, in the routine activities of industry, men's actions are determined not by their imagination, but by the immediacies of practical demands. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
The distractions of this quest to Parnassus had blunted her concern somewhat, for immediacies always came first, but she knew she could never really rest until Ivy was safe again. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon on a Pedestal]
There is going to be planning on the military front, there's of course a rush to action to help people in New York and at the Pentagon respond to the immediacies of the disasters. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2001] Reference
As in the processions of antiquity the bearers of bread yielded their place to the bearers of torches, so now in the domain of social order and of the immediacies of human need it is the poetic imagination that is still illuminating the lofty passion of peoples in quest of light. From Wordnik.com. [Saint-John Perse - Banquet Speech] Reference
Some improvements have been included 3 immediacies as following. From Wordnik.com. [MyLinkVault Newest Links] Reference
Have the immediacies of modern technology helped reduce our procrastination or do they feed into people's tendency to put things off?. From Wordnik.com. [Newswise: Latest News] Reference
In the first place he must get away and think about it all, think himself clear of all these -- these immediacies, these associations and relations and holds and habits. From Wordnik.com. [The Research Magnificent] Reference
Base immediacies fouled the truth on every man’s lips. From Wordnik.com. [In the Days of the Comet] Reference
The mechanical whining voice of the computer informed her of immediacies: "Notice!. From Wordnik.com. [Eve's Rib]
"He had seen it before, but it wasn't relevant to the immediacies of prior situations, and there is so much in that book that he ignored it. From Wordnik.com. [Phaze Doubt]
Inescapably, Muncie’s middle classes endured year after year of an emotional state that resembled, as the Lynds put it, the crisis quality of a serious illness, when life’s customary busy immediacies drop away and one lies helplessly confronting oneself, reviewing the past, and asking abrupt questions of the future. From Wordnik.com. [Life In (and After) Our Great Recession] Reference
But he had better stay with immediacies. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
His mind slid back to greater immediacies. From Wordnik.com. [The Martian Way]
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