They were instantly living in it and building a deck for better views of the idyllic, 45-acre setting the Minnicks have in the country outside Dixie, W.Va. "I figure we saved a third over the cost of a normal, site-built house," Mr. Minnick says of the $80,000 home.
We live in a society of instant gratification: Just about anything can be delivered; any job "task-rabbited"; and many things can even be instantly live-streamed.
The pictures are almost never very good, the shows are being instantly live-streamed anyway, and, besides, nobody wants to be that person who looks as if he's always self-branding, or worse, a shill for Google Glass.
Living standards are now higher than Italy's.The improvement in Spaniards' lives is instantly visible.
What is not a surprise is that he traces the cause of his depression to the death of his father, the charismatic double champion Graham Hill, in a plane crash in 1975, when Damon was 15 – "the night the points on the railway track of our lives were instantly switched from one destination to a completely unanticipated one".
The scene was instantly familiar to anyone who's lived in a flat of creative 20-somethings.
As an avid Shah Rukh Khan fan, and more importantly as a Muslim woman living abroad, I was instantly drawn to the storyline of My Name is Khan.
Despite a whole life lived since their last encounter, their affection was instantly rekindled.
The response of state television was immediate and telling: instead of letting the mishap pass, the live feed was instantly replaced with a recording from a rehearsal.
When he meets and brings home Kyril (Dritan Biba), a 23-year-old Bulgarian stud who makes crude, violent love to him, he is instantly besotted and invites Kyril to live with him.
