After the Devils failed on the power plays, they lost their urgency.

Life is sweet here, but the same, always the same, and luxury love has lost its urgency.

No matter how many times she viewed the thing, though, it never lost its urgency and horror.

But like many other initiatives begun after the Sept. 11 attacks, it appears to have lost its urgency.

The questions lost their urgency when you knew the answers were in the back of the book.

Once a face has technology, life is so much easier that conquering loses its urgency.

Watching me, he began nodding and his tone lost its headlong urgency.

His voice had lost its urgency; it was quiet and warm.

But with so many repeat visitors to the park, the warnings have lost their urgency, officials said.

If it were not so, all the warnings against falling would lose their threatening urgency.