Sentence examples for absence of form from inspiring English sources

People nowadays who speak of form in poetry almost always mean such externals as regular measure and rhyme, and most often they mean to get rid of these in favour of the freedom they suppose must follow upon the absence of form in this limited sense.

We feel sucked up, swallowed, entangled and baffled by this absence of form.

Gersonides compares this matter to darkness: just as darkness is the absence of light, this matter represents the absence of form or shape.

Privation is something of its own kind or, in the negative, privation 'is not pure nothing' or even pure absence of form but the state of 'actively' lacking that something imperfect has with respect to fulfillment (E 3, 31)—and only in this way can privation be understood as a principle of change.

Pound himself felt this absence of form was his great failure, and regretted that he could not "make it cohere".

Instead, you are reading our statement to falsify the claim that a particular function implies a graph property (form), which would require us showing that absence of form implies absence of function.

But if they buy dollars on the black market (for a premium), the absence of forms makes it easier to elude customs.

Taken together, these results indicate that Pbp1 is required for the expression of Lsm12 and Pbp4, and Lsm12 is required for the expression of Pbp4, perhaps because these factors are unstable in the absence of forming a Pbp1-Pbp4-Lsm12 Pbp1-Pbp4-Lsm12 Pbp1-Pbp4-Lsm12

Indeed, London's defining characteristic is an absence of overall form.

Although some experts claim to see evidence for language in hominid skulls millions of years old, others note the absence of another form of symbolic representation -- art -- until much more recently.

"There was an absence of some form of leadership in the Police Department, and during this absence, some members reverted to an informal leadership and formed some groups," Mr. Cosgrove said.