Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is one of the most powerful performers and choreographers around these days, and she deals with myth and symbol with a notably raw immediacy.

The raw, reckless immediacy of Miller's work has been overpowered by Nin's more passionately overheated style.

And "The Road to Guantánamo" can be disorienting, especially in its first half, as it switches back and forth between the recollections of the three main characters and the raw immediacy of their restaged ordeal.

He was not a powerful image-maker, but by combining the fastidious care of a medieval manuscript illuminator and the raw immediacy of a modern primitive, he produced a rich sensuality (Johnson).

Its best shows, typically thrown together on a shoestring budget, had a raw immediacy that the bigger art institutions can rarely match.

Known for their work with Los Lobos, Richard Thompson and Elvis Costello, the two helped Ms. Raitt record 11 stylistically diverse songs that value raw musical immediacy over pop polish.

Arnaud Desplechin, who adapted "Esther Kahn" from a short story by Arthur Symons, presents Esther's milieu with a raw immediacy unusual in period films.

Political apparatchiks quickly discovered the raw immediacy of posters, harnessing the art for propaganda purposes - think of those Communist posters produced in Russia in the early years of the 20th century, and then later in China.

Combining the fastidious care of a medieval manuscript illuminator and the raw immediacy of a modern primitivist, Klee seems to reinvent pictorial art with each piece.

His photographs demonstrate his eagerness to defy convention, in both his subjects and his techniques, but despite their raw immediacy the pictures never coalesced into a deeper artistic statement.