I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.
Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.
Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imminent end of America's unique global role have a harder case to make than those who think we will limp on for a while, making a mess of things as usual.
The imminent demise of the large record companies as gatekeepers of the world's popular music is a good thing, for the most part.
The ability to diagnose an imminent heart attack has long been considered the holy grail of cardiovascular medicine.
Climate change is not a discrete issue; it's a symptom of larger problems. Fundamentally, our society as currently designed has no future. We're chewing up the planet so fast, in so many different ways, that we could solve the climate problem tomorrow and still find that environmental collapse is imminent.
There's something imminent in the work, but the circle is only completed by the viewer.
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.
Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.
I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.