Urgency

No problem demands more urgency than the human conditions of life.

She provided for an urgency.

People speak so much about the need for leaving a better planet for our children, and forget the urgency of leaving better children for our planet.

What's the urgency?

There's no urgency.

There is no urgency.

We can't combat a disease like Zika that recognizes no borders — mosquitos don't respect walls — unless we make permanent the same urgency that we brought to bear against Ebola — by strengthening our own systems of public health, by investing in cures and rolling back the root causes of disease, and helping poorer countries develop a public health infrastructure.

The barren scene, the sense of loneliness, and the mystery and urgency of my task all struck a chill into my heart.

Urgency is the insistent immediate future, the future in the process of making itself the present.

There was a sense of urgency.