So, in no particular order, here are five that for me illustrate Tolkien's description of the phonetic pleasure of words as "simpler, deeper-rooted, and yet more immediate" than any practical or structural understanding of their sense.
A number of case histories, ranging across lake eutrophication, urban ozone levels, the restoration of ecosystems, the circulation of waters in the North Atlantic, and the invasion of exotic species, are used to construct a much more immediate sense of the nature of structural change and, therefore, the character of the challenge of generating environmental foresight.
(Actual human beings want to have jobs again, and they want their family and friends to have jobs, because not having jobs is currently driving up household deficits, which are of more immediate importance to actual humans than structural federal deficits, which were run up willy nilly by the same people who suddenly want to "get serious" about them.
But now structural problems pose a more immediate danger.
This means that structural parameters such as surface charge, shape, area, and reactivity are the primary contributors and more immediate mediators of nanoparticle function and toxicity.
"They want more immediate results".
The payoff is more immediate.
Locker has more immediate concerns.
He had more immediate duties, he said.
Amazon offers publishers a more immediate link.
