instantaneity , also: instantaneousness

Time was moving again; the infinite expansion of instantaneity had ceased.

(Another useful illusion is that of the instantaneity of experience.

Photography's precision, intensity and instantaneity simply took over.

What attitudes and outlooks would he have developed, moving through a world of comparative sluggards with something like instantaneity?

Such swiftness suggested a young mind-no old thoughts or experiences to slow the instantaneity of action.

It travels in a time dimension and any speed slower than instantaneity is a modification of that force field."

Indeed, art had to strive to achieve an instantaneity that bypasses laborious storytelling.

Through endless escalators, Tom Carr describes contemporary transiting places ruled by instantaneity.

Josepho's first machines produced a strip of eight photographs in eight minutes, the closest thing to instantaneity before the invention of the Polaroid.

The alien energy beam struck with merciful instantaneity, and the pilot's atoms joined those of his ship and became one with the universe.

Many commentators have wondered about the split between his photographs, with their instantaneity, and his drawings, with their hesitant, even painstaking lines.

The sensors were active ones, using treated antineutrinos which could be given superluminal acceleration but which lacked the virtual instantaneity of tachyon communications.

If it were within his power he would go to her now with the philotic instantaneity of the ansible; but he also knew that her pain would wait.

The Jarnell Coverdrive now seized the ship, or, more accu- rately, created conditions where a few pounds of thrust caused near- instantaneity of transfer.

An immediate consequence of instantaneity, time-reversibility means then a time-reversed Stokes flow solves the same equations as the original Stokes flow.

It was anybody's guess, since nobody understood why philotic effects worked anyway; the ansible had been discovered half by accident, and along with it the Park Instantaneity Principle.

Most viewers experience individual Kruger works as quick takes - visual and verbal aphorisms - but this instantaneity can work against a perception of the interlocking themes the artist addresses.

He was unsurpassed in the eloquence and fluency with which he expressed himself, and in the ease and instantaneity with which his hand translated thought into image.

Raynal argued, echoing Metzinger and Gleizes, that the rejection of classical perspective in favor of multiplicity represented a break with the 'instantaneity' that characterized Impressionism.

It's about instantaneity and getting what you want - boom, boom, boom," he said, politely pounding the table like an anxious child and drawing the concerned eye of a waitress.

In place of the stately but lifeless commissioned portraits of an earlier era, we find - see the current exhibition of photographs by the late Chris Garnham - a quick-witted instantaneity.

Other photographers consider these cameras the purest form of photographic instrument in providing images with the characteristics that distinguish photography from other visual media - its ubiquity, instantaneity, multiplicity and verisimilitude.

Speed is the triumph of effect over cause, the triumph of instantaneity over time as depth, the triumph of the surface and pure objectality over the profundity of desire.

Empath forced herself to be ensconced by her duty, and felt as sure of her time ahead as a working empath did when guiding an ether boat across the stars via impure instantaneity.

Initially devised for use at rock concerts, Vari-Lite is said to allow a multiplicity of palette, a freedom of control, a degree of precision and an instantaneity of response that have never been achieved before.