The phrase "a kind of missing" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where you are describing something that feels incomplete or absent, but it would need more context to clarify its meaning.
Example: "There is a kind of missing in the narrative that leaves the reader wanting more."
Alternatives: "a sense of absence" or "a feeling of loss".
The Doors' music strikes me as a kind of missing link between 50s rock'n'roll and the post-Beatles era.
Jun Do is an Everyman who is also a kind of missing person — indeed, an English-speaking character registers his name's closeness to John Doe.
It struck me as a kind of missing piece – an unusually rich, weird, interesting, influential category of human experience, which had somehow gone largely unexplored.
Indeed it is a kind of missing link between the long line of classic, acoustic Davis quintets and the high-energy electric outfits of the 70s and after.
That there was a hunger for "a kind of missing center of town" was more than apparent, said the noted graphic designer William Drenttel, who, with his wife and partner, Jessica Helfand, has a modernist home and studio nearby.
Who else could make a profile of Eileen Fisher, the designer whose studiedly muted clothes inspire a "cult of the interestingly plain", read like a kind of missing person mystery?
"I think it is a kind of missed opportunity for achieving a rapprochement in Iranian-U.S. relations," said Elaheh Koulai, a reformist member of the foreign relations committee in Parliament.
But it also seems like the Cool Ranch shell, in its current form, is a kind of missed opportunity.
"I think of twin sets and pearls, a kind of Miss Moneypenny sexiness".
A kind of Miss Havisham with obsessive-compulsive disorder, she lives alone amid a mountain of clutter consisting of every issue of the paper from the late 1970s to the present day.
"For a long time it was kind of missing, with the oil boom and the death of other industry.
