imminence

How To Use imminence In A Sentence

• Nor had she looked narrowly into his eyes and espied the imminence of his escape, as he'd feared she could. BARN BLIND
• Taken verbally as well as ontologically, then, and directed back into romanticism, Agamben would thus help rethink Wordsworthian imminence as a kind of immanence in its own enunciative right. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
• An excited little man with the staring eyes of a visionary, who harangued us for hours on end about the imminence of apocalypse. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
• The Four Horsemen, whose appearance, experts believe, marks the imminence of a major conflict, are armed with state-of-the-art swords, scythes and hourglasses, as well as a fully operational last trumpet.
• So, for an instant, Anthony stood at Susanna's threshold, looking into her antechamber, breathless almost with his sense of her imminence; -- and then the tall flunkey said, in the fastidious accents of flunkeydom, "Net et _em_, sir;" and all my hero's high-strung emotion must spend itself in the depositing of a card. The Lady Paramount
• A nation perceives the inevitability but not the imminence of an attack.
• I claim no prize for predicting five years ago the imminence of something that finally happened the last few weeks.
• An excited little man with the staring eyes of a visionary, who harangued us for hours on end about the imminence of apocalypse. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
• The pre-emptive action has to be proportionate to the significance and imminence of the threat.
• I still see the dog hairs eventuating their existence, finer than my dark entanglements, but I am not fooled by ideas of an imminence of their return. Counting On Fantasies