Sentence examples for personal immediacy from inspiring English sources

Consequently, the writings of medieval Scholasticism quite naturally lack the magic of personal immediacy, for schoolbooks leave little room for originality.

In books such as Figures of the Human (1964) and Rescue the Dead (1968), David Ignatow wrote brief but razor-sharp poems that made their effect through swiftness, deceptive simplicity, paradox, and personal immediacy.

As will happen eventually, I think, with Graham, readers who reconsidered Eliot's poetry with fresh eyes, after the tide of monographs receded, found him to be a poet of personal immediacy and ragged emotionality: "the victim," as Randall Jarrell suggested, "of his own inexorable compulsions, obsessions".

Yet few artists could give these borrowings such a personal, sculptural immediacy, as exemplified by "Recall," a 1973 piece now on view in Manhattan as part of a group show at Salomon Contemporary in Chelsea devoted to art once exhibited at an artist-run alternative space in SoHo called 112 Greene Street.

The immediacy of personal witness got bogged down in self-absorption or social protest.

But while those groups provide professionalism and experience, the more ragtag efforts over the weekend offered an immediacy and personal connection that New Yorkers seemed to crave.

Mr. Ahadi prefers immediacy and personal testimony to explanation, but his film is too stingy with context, both broad and fine-grained.

I've no idea how autobiographical it might be, but Pikelet's age matches Winton's, and the pressing immediacy of personal investment is on every page.

Transgender Dysphoria Blues, Against Me! Singer Laura Jane Grace sings about her personal transformation with crushing immediacy.

After a tragedy, everything is seen through a larger perspective and in this wider view our personal woes lose their immediacy.

I think an artist's commitment to his or her medium is the first step among many in the making of art, and I believe it is based on all of the social and emotional factors that have affected the artist's development as an individual... painting records the immediacy and personal nature of the artist's touch.