Sentence examples for a present absence from inspiring English sources

He is a present absence, a sort of ghost of himself.

Before, he was an absent presence; now, eight months later, in Act II, he's a present absence.

In this image, God is a present absence, who leaves a space lit up by his departure.

In his own family, he says a great uncle killed at Gallipoli was a constant memory, which he described as an "active presence or a present absence".

While Plato's Forms play a definitive role in the perceptible realm as responsible for the determinate characteristics of things, they count as a kind of present absence.

I sometimes wonder what's worse the complete absence that a death leaves in its wake or the very present absence of a family member living a life just across the border.

Although an additive effect can be caused by partial loss of function (with redundant genes present), absence of an additive effect between llg1 and fer would provide key support for their function in the same pathway.

In a sense, through the Google Street View, the problem of present absence has seeped from film into real life where, although we are more connected to the world and people around us, it is punctuated with an isolation that refers back to the original.

He's the most present absence I've ever known".

This conceit of present absence has long been important in film and is especially poignant in the era of digital video and intermediary social networking.

In conclusion, in the present absence of data on cervical cancer incidence and/or mortality, the disclosure of a high HPV prevalence would suggest an important underlying cervical cancer burden in Shenyang and similar Chinese populations.