1.   Another important way in which Havens blurs the lines is by stamping everything with the same sorrowful emotional urgency.

2.   As Vedder explains, a songwriter can chronicle social problems like a reporter, but with a greater emotional urgency.

3.   He maintained his Russian Jewish identity, but a new emotional urgency gripped him, the plight of local workers and the poor.

4.   This is precisely the sort of imposing score that dance-composition teachers warn against, for its formal intricacy and emotional urgency can make choreography look irrelevant.

5.   Travolta, however, injects a needed sense of emotional urgency into the far more intriguing second act.