But the television pictures of the incident, shown on the network news the same day it occurred, had an emotional immediacy that still burns in the mind.

The color may add nothing to our understanding of this war, but there is no denying its emotional immediacy.

By this time he had begun to demonstrate his genius for rendering surface textures and capturing emotional immediacy.

The audience is at too great a distance, and, as a result, "Never in My Lifetime" loses some of its emotional immediacy.

"Sumidagawa" is the most popular play in the Noh repertory, undoubtedly because of its striking emotional immediacy.

The intention has obviously been to increase emotional immediacy.

Inspired by the sensual, emotional immediacy of actors, he also partakes in his films of an analyst's measured distance and reserve.

Real confessions promise powerful emotional immediacy.

Eschewing staging and props, they manage to bring back pictures that have a bracing emotional immediacy.

McShae also considered that the brief but gruesome death scenes for the boy helped to create an "emotional immediacy that is difficult to forget".