Example Sentences

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But rejecting Eliot’s rejection of poetry and even further rejecting Eliot’s reasoning and orthodoxy, this exceptional response to “Four Quartets” achieves genuine universality and profound nowness.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2020

In both cases, this felt like an immersive sonic nowness into which we enter.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2020

It’s even more to their credit — and a boon to the future — that they’ve kept that career’s difficulty, and toughness, and nowness to the fore.

From New York Times • Apr. 19, 2018

Whatever mix of instinct and serendipity produced such a vivid dystopia for such a vividly dystopian time, the shock and originality of that nowness can’t be repeated.

From The Guardian • Sep. 18, 2017

There was a skyness to the sky and a nowness to the world that he had never seen or felt or realized before.

From "Stardust" by Neil Gaiman