The phrase "absence of imagination" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a lack of creativity or innovative thinking in various contexts, such as art, literature, or problem-solving.
Example: "The report was criticized for its absence of imagination, failing to propose any new ideas or solutions."
Alternatives: "lack of creativity" or "dearth of originality."
"We don't have an absence of imagination," he said.
Directed and choreographed, with a thundering absence of imagination, by Arlene Phillips (2 30).
Like Thomas L. Friedman ("Addicted to 9/11," column, Oct. 14), I am saddened by the absence of imagination in the White House.
"Why must we bother about a language spoken by only 60,000 people?" It exhibits the same absence of imagination that is suspicious of anything that isn't uniform or safely ordered by Control Centre.
The original "Pitch Perfect," about the travails and triumphs of an all-woman college a-cappella team called the Barden Bellas, struck me as a failure of style arising from an absence of directorial imagination.
The rocks here range from baroque flamboyance to minimalist compression; but they are not so amazing as objects that you fail to miss the absence of human imagination or artifice.
The failure to embrace institutional change that benefits the vast majority of students and teachers is a result of the absence of both imagination and the will to create better forms of assessment that measure more than a first-grade child's ability "to fill in the bubble," as Ms. Ulm sadly notes.
The former Arsenal midfielder has already said that he is "not a dreamer or a magic man", so in the absence of a wild imagination or a wand, we take a look at what the 49-year-old needs to do to keep Villa up and emulate Crystal Palace's great escape under Tony Pulis two seasons ago.
In today's society the absence of an active spiritual imagination can be demoralizing and paralyzing.
But if Shaughnessy did, indeed, have more sisters, or more of anything else, frankly, she would have less of that sense of absence that her imagination feeds on.
By Ben Lerner February 25 , 2013For the poet Wallace Stevens, "God and the imagination are one" — or, more exactly, in the absence of a God, the human imagination must re-enchant the world.
