It was good to fill the mind with practical and immediate things.

In an interview last week, he said: "Two immediate things come to mind.

The immediate thing, however, was that he had been caught reading the file by its owner.

Now, though, I think we have more immediate things to worry about.

Right now he had more immediate things to worry about.

She would not have the existence at all of anything but the immediate, physical, common things.

Now he had more immediate things on his mind.

His terror, cool and distant a moment ago, became a more immediate thing.

His mind dropped into a soft neutral, as it almost always did when the most immediate things were taken care of.

Carrie could not guess but that it was pleasure with him in the immediate thing.