Even as Ms. Orringer fills her book and her protagonist with hope, she underscores the imminence of danger with what, in view of her often exquisitely precise use of language, seems like a heavy hand.
At first, nothing happens, which means the air is uncomfortably charged with imminence.
And on a proper showing of the imminence of problems with Saddam Hussein and on a proper showing that this is the last recourse, my vote may well be cast with the administration as well.
Some economists reckon that the outlook for the big rich economies is similarly grizzly.The reason why markets are nervous is not just the imminence of war with Iraq, but the evidence that, even without a war, the world economy is in worse shape than many had thought.
This took place just before the war, in the relatively rosy times when we were euphoric with the imminence of disaster — we drank and laughed and experimented with poetic forms into the late hours.
"One of the peculiarities of Ravelstein is that it is both an old man's novel, much preoccupied with the imminence of death, and a book which plays games with the whole idea of an old man's novel," said Russell.
Yet it was now, faced with the imminence of death and terrified, that she insisted we rip up her D.N.R.
Before the play even begins, two lights are positioned dramatically above the towering forms, their thin, austere beams soaking the bare gray stage with the imminence of menace.
Where Williams's 1945 play caught and defined the postwar mood of release, with the imminence of new life, Kushner's saga, which revolves around a victim of the AIDS epidemic, caught and defined the mood of ruthless Reaganite self-interest, with the imminence of new death.
The Germans might have held out longer for further concessions if the fact of revolution on their home front had not been coupled with the imminence of a new blow from the west.
