imminence , also: imminency

My brother, however, could not deal with the imminence of Mother's death.

With the imminence of the project, practically everyone was working late.

Citing the potential imminence of war, all decided to do so.

Strange how the imminence of fighting made him so ready, always.

But there was no sharp knife of imminence from them.

His eyes moved, even at the imminence of the bandage.

Now, even the imminence of his own ruin could not wake him.

The table talk was about the imminence of the eminence's return.

The sense of the Coming's imminence was like an electric tension in the air.

Imminence hung in the air; its meaning she could not decide.

Only Vain seemed oblivious to the imminence in the air.

The imminence of bloodshed was not lost on the crowd.

Perhaps it was to do with the imminence of her wedding to Roger.

Raising his hand, he alerted them to the imminence of the start.

Fortunately, we did not realize the imminence of our danger.

There was a tension on the air, an approaching imminence of something about to happen.

And he comes in the second half of the book to face the imminence of his own death.

Suddenly he knew why he had felt the imminence of his own death.

The only thing that has really changed is the imminence of the predicted financial catastrophe.

The light shifted, charged now with a heightened energy, an imminence.

But the very imminence of the emergency paralyzed his invention.

The poet seems to presage the imminence of his own death.

At first, nothing happens, which means the air is uncomfortably charged with imminence.

For a sense of imminence had begun to be felt by each of us.

The imminence of the British move was hardly news.