| One of the most basic premises in Gestalt therapy is to make everything very immediate, emphasizing the here and now, what Fritz Perls called presentness. |
| Learning the basics of being centred and using yourself well in daily life has a huge impact on your presentness, your general health, and your general fitness. |
| In The Hours, the presentness of narrative is a choice of tense. |
| Your citizens and politicians must be commended for your confidence in the presentness of the past. |
| Any event must have all three properties, pastness, presentness and futurity, but this is a contradiction. |
