A performer in the wings is therefore confronted with both the looming immensity of possibility and the crushing necessity for immediate and particular action.
It is an emotional issue, both for researchers and survivors, and no single book can do justice to its immensity.
But the vastness of scale, the immensity and rapidity, and the universal consequences for all citizens (of germ warfare or nuclear destruction) are new.
Some of the responses to the questionnaires sent out by the commission revealed the immensity of the task ahead.
However, the immensity of this task should not allow the issue of statehood to be struck from the agenda.
Indeed, the science of comparative anatomy as a whole was a misguided attempt to "coordinate and classify" the immensity of nature.
Swallowed up in one phase or other of its immensity, towards which they seemed impelled by a desperate fascination, they never returned.
For this reason, he writes, the imaginative power of 'intimate immensity' draws us into ourselves more intensely.
