urgency

• Perhaps they knew that the real point of my urgency was my need to find somewhere slightly familiar where I was nonetheless completely unknown and would not be compared to the young woman I had been before I'd married. —  Secret Ceremonies
• The whole experience caused me to think about his urgency, and urgency in general. —  Sanders Says
• Ninth Symphony has a quality of intense urgency, and the wonderful performance seemed appropriately super charged. —  Sequenza21/
• In order of urgency, the problems are the great economic recession / financial crisis, the peaking of world oil and other fossil fuel production, an ... —  Falls Church News-Press Online
• But he sounded no note of urgency, and warned that the federal government has dictated the terms of how the money must be spent, and left even his administration with little decision-making power.

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