It's difficult to articulate exactly what directness or immediacy involves in the present context, but some examples should make the import of this condition relatively clear.
He is at once involved and detached: his language engineers immediacy; his structure engineers distance.
In fact, Penny [ 21] concluded that the use of electronic questionnaires for assessment and feedback provides an economy and immediacy to the assessment process that is beneficial for all those involved.
Throughout the book, too, there is the author, a sympathetic presence, involved but not obtrusive, skillfully interweaving history and actuality to create a narrative that has both depth and immediacy.
With Liz Diamond's fiercely involving direction, the immediacy of Marie Davis-Green's scenic design, which gives literal impact to a transporting tale and three vivid, disparate performances, the play makes a complete round trip in record time -- from life to art, then back to life.
What matters most to us, the people, involves both the immediacy of our days, and also the legacy of our generations.
People's judgments about danger involve perceptions of severity and immediacy, controllability, voluntariness, equity issues, as well as the degree to which a risk is known to science [ 19, 20].
Unlike depressive rumination, such appetitive rumination is argued to typically include "the construction of sensory images that often are vivid and richly textured, lending the experience a sensory immediacy" (Kavanagh et al., 2005), that is, involving a concrete level of goal/action identification of appetitive stimuli.
"History involves critical detachment; memory involves a deep immediacy," Mr. Wieseltier said.
Health concerns involving pain were accorded a similar level of immediacy.
