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Here’s an attempt, anyway, at describing British filmmaker Hazan’s then-controversial, years-in-the-making movie, which he named after Hockney’s landmark 1967 water-and-modern-architecture study memorializing landscape and instantaneousness, but which captures the making of a different great work.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2019

Einstein described quantum mechanics as "spooky" because of the instantaneousness of the apparent remote interaction between two entangled particles.

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2019

“Stephenie Landry is the force responsible for the instantaneousness of your gratification,” the magazine said.

From Seattle Times • May 21, 2016

What’s more, the ubiquity and instantaneousness of social media can spread mistakes faster than ever.

From Washington Post • Jul. 2, 2015

That instantaneousness which now impelled him in all his actions, again seized the ascendency in him.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman