For if it were possible to imagine fully that instant of passing from consciousness to nonexistence, with all the attendant fear and humiliation of absolute helplessness, it would be very hard to live.
In an absence, from a family absence to a state absence.
As digital delivery platforms morph and multiply, the nature of visual storytelling has changed and the lines that once clearly divided film from television or, for that matter, broadcast television from cable, cable from streaming, streaming from Internet, are fading, often to nonexistence.
Even for the simplest of matters, I go to the doctor as one going before the hanging judge, acutely aware of the fact that I might be going from being full square in the moment to nonexistence.
/ What is not pronounced tends to nonexistence" ("Reading the Japanese Poet Issa").
I'm reminded of methaqualone, also known as Quaaludes, and its long path to nonexistence.
Driven to nonexistence... [All characters exeunt.] TO BE CONTINUED… CROWLEY-VISION: A talking beast head.
Keep absences to a minimum.
The Manual of Reason (TS 85 88) reports the usual Nyāya view that there are four types of absence: prior nonexistence (prāgabhāva); posterior nonexistence or 'destruction' (dhvaṃsa); 'constant' or 'absolute' absence (atyantābhāva); and difference (anyonyābhāva).
The Siletz clawed back — clinging to former reservation lands and cultural anchors in songs and dances — and two decades later, in the mid-1970s, became only the second tribe in the nation to go from nonexistence to federally recognized status.
This may give rise to interesting phase transitions from nonexistence to existence of ground states, when a certain quantity reaches a critical threshold.
