Sentence examples for Utter absence of from inspiring English sources

Its aftermath lays bare a system with an utter absence of accountability.

The utter absence of chemistry between these two reflects the film's overall clumsiness about its characters.

(The utter absence of rhythm here registers almost as an act of passive protest).

Every day was a game, and excellence was expected despite the utter absence of practice.

"The Coming Anarchy" is informed by a rock-solid, unwavering realism and an utter absence of sentimentality.

No, porn is not the problem: it's the complete and utter absence of any other narrative that is, and the disappointing failure of our government to provide one.

Those whose compassion compels them to confront and combat daily its utter absence are, of necessity, often forced to affect a passionless pose.

But it is not so easy to see how to carry this over to the treatment of accepting a moral judgment in the absence of uttering a moral sentence.

Anyone who utters this sentence, in absence of special circumstances, would be taken to implicate that the woman in question was someone other than X's "wife, mother, sister, or perhaps even close platonic friend" (Ibid).

But at least this linguistic lurch provided some interest in a film that is mind-bendingly boring, with an utter lack of narrative drive, an absence of jeopardy or anything at all being at stake, or of interest, in any way whatever.

For they see equal care as compatible with filial devotion (xiao) and parental compassion (ci), virtues normally associated with special affective concern for one's parents or children, and they tie the absence of care to utter disregard for others (Mozi, Books 14 16).