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As regards immediateness of narration, Laurence Sterne may, perhaps, be pointed out as an example.

From The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 by Defoe, Daniel

Prof. Garbe and Prof. Hopkins, however, confirm me in my view that there is often a falling off in the immediateness of the inspiration, and that many passages have been interpolated.

From The Reconciliation of Races and Religions by Cheyne, Thomas Kelly

In the first, which was cultivated to its highest point among the Greeks, direct immediateness rules.

From Pedagogics as a System by Brackett, Anna C. (Anna Callender)

The transition from directness and immediateness to indirectness and mediation, along with the notions of space and time appropriated in the process, is in many ways reflected in the process of language constitution.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai

Also to be reckoned with, was the immediateness of his attack. 

From White Fang by London, Jack