More important, it becomes clear that they — and Philip, as well — share one immense thing in common: they are all in flight from their own lives.
Ellison was yet another figure who fell deeply out of style during the sixties and seventies, and who nevertheless achieved immense things, as a literary artist and also as an advocate for black America.
America conceals immense things.
An old city of the Northwest filled with an immense variety of things to do.
Alborg offers an immense variety of things to do: historic walks, coastal bus tours, and rail and boat excursions.
In the same theme, he wrote to John Thelwall in a letter dated 14 October 1797, I can at times feel strongly the beauties, you describe, in themselves & for themselves — but more frequently all things appear little — all knowledge, that can be acquired, child's play — the universe itself what but an immense heap of little things?
Materialist ways of thinking posit that the universe is an immense machine that created things like mind and the human brain by randomly tossing the building blocks of atoms and molecules until they happened to land in a pattern instead of scattered across the floor.
Unofficially, it dates to at least 1876, when Abraham Browning of Camden likened "our Garden State" to "an immense barrel, filled with good things to eat and open at both ends, with Pennsylvanians grabbing from one end and New Yorkers from the other".
The whole thing is the result of an immense risk the young entrepreneurs took to go into business.
There are new things, many new things to be done, I feel it with an immense energy, and I shall do it, have no doubt, if I live.
