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.
Reverse chronology is a familiar literary conceit (Harold Pinter's Betrayal; Martin Amis's Time's Arrow), but never has a new political leader accepted the imminence of his ending, and acted accordingly.
The prime minister followed in the evening, with an aide carrying an overnight bag that was all the evidence the Saturday morning newspapers needed to make the imminence of the new arrival their page one headlines.
So in recent days, as word spread among housing lawyers about the imminence of the new fees, a coalition of tenants and landlords worked together to criticize the Legislature and the Office of Court Administration, which oversees the entire court system.
Cargo cult, any of the religious movements chiefly, but not solely, in Melanesia that exhibit belief in the imminence of a new age of blessing, to be initiated by the arrival of a special "cargo" of goods from supernatural sources based on the observation by local residents of the delivery of supplies to colonial officials.
The news isn't really the imminence of its arrival, but rather that it's arriving at all.
Despite the imminence of its construction, designs for the new building – by the firm of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien – are described by the Foundation's press officer as being "in the conceptual stage".
And in honor of the imminence of All Hallow's Eve, a New Yorker's favorite holiday, I would like to enumerate the forms and content of theater that means to terrify.
But high-placed Israeli intelligence officials exhibited heightened N.F.C., and they froze on the early conventional wisdom — that the chances of an attack were quite low — and failed to adequately incorporate new signals, blocking off conflicting information as to the attack's imminence.
