What is "nearness"

Usage examples of "nearness".

Few can equal him in adumbrating the nearness of nameless forces and monstrous besieging entities through casual hints and insignificant details, or in conveying feelings of the spectral and the abnormal in connection with regions or buildings.

She trembled frenetically, distracted unbearably by his ardency, his nearness.

She watched him move about her kitchen in his partially unbuttoned shirt, maroon cummerbund and tuxedo pants, and found herself reacting to his nearness at the same time she puzzled over the strangeness of her response.

His very brain must have been electrified by the nearness of creation.

Danlo immediately hated the sight of this dagger and dreaded the implications of its nearness to the helpless lamb.

We must reflect that, since the many forms of lives are movements--and so with the Intellections--they cannot be identical: there must be different lives, distinct intellections, degrees of lightsomeness and clarity: there must be firsts, seconds, thirds, determined by nearness to the Firsts.

For what seemed a long time, she lay motionless, simply savouring his white-skinned nearness.

The chief prelates of the Thearchy sat along the second level, hushed and uncomfortable in their jeweled vestments as if embarrassed by his unaccustomed nearness to divinity.

The fat man came waddling toward him, flinching visibly from the nearness of that dreadful precipice, yet beaming with a surprised relief.

That a kiss or a whisper might fall from her Down by the way of Time to me: Or some least grace of the body of love, -- Mere wafture of floating-by, Mere sense of unseen smiling above, Mere hint sincere of a large blue eye, Mere dim receipt of sad delight From Nearness warm in the air, What time with the passing of the night She also passed, somehow, somewhere.

Beware lest ye suffer one another to be wrapt in veils by reason of the disputes which may, during your night, arise among you as a result of the problems ye encounter or in consideration of such matters as your loftiness or lowliness, your nearness or remoteness.

The wynds and closes that climbed the southern slope were eagerly possessed by divines, lawyers and literary men because of their nearness to the University.

He naturally associated the presence of Tom Idle with the nearness of Doc Savage, because the two had escaped the penitentiary together, and he was suddenly frantic with anxiety.

I sit in calm exile, always wanting but never touching, and you let that simpering dandy whom you hardly know console your body with his nearness.

When he suggested, for instance, that the deacons and subdeacons veil their eyes with their sleeves at the Elevation of the Host, as if they were blinded by the nearness of the Body of Christ, Father Hobbes vetoed it.