Example Sentences

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It’s the nowness of “Civil War” that will be much discussed.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2024

As a group, they pose a bohemian counterpoint to mainstream convention in an exhibitionistic lineup that reflects the red hot nowness of that era.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2020

Beethoven, though, for all his own sonic nowness in harmonies never before heard, in trills that move music outside of drama, nevertheless operates on a dialectic that here seemed of another age, rather than ageless.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2020

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