In some ways "Billy Budd" is opera in the grand manner, with a pulsing, urgent score, massed choral scenes for the sailors, intricate ensembles and lush writing for a large orchestra.
The music shifts between ruminative scenes and urgent flights.
The sci-fi shooter Half-Life introduced the concept of seamless in-game narrative, with plot points delivered via dialogue rather than obtrusive cut-scenes – this urgent new style would reach its commercial zenith with the rip-roaring Halo and Call of Duty combat series.
On @GMA: on the scene of an urgent search for three sisters missing in the Wyoming wilderness.
Superficially, the scene resembles the urgent community efforts seen whenever people are displaced by a natural disaster.
THE more attention this city gets for its hyper-contemporary art scene, the more urgent it becomes for museums here to examine their own roots.
Strauss's quicksilvering, melancholy harmonies during that scene and the urgent, conflicted music of the final act, when Octavian finally leaves the Marschallin, speak volumes.
As ever in Hollywood pictures with urgent "international" settings, the opening scene is set somewhere in Notamericaistan, where the first signs of trouble are detected.
As time marches on the contradictions and latent conflicts that comprise Egypt's post-uprising political scene become more urgent and impossible to ignore, but the way forward remains unclear.
(In one scene he interrupts an urgent marriage-related discussion to advise an old woman who wants to buy a new stove).
Dozens of men were forced to radio Maydays, the most urgent of distress calls, and the scene quickly devolved into mayhem.
