He also said that the absence of seat belts contributes to school bus accidents and to the death of children killed in the loading zone.
At least one citizen was disturbed by all the news media attention, particularly by the absence of seats for local citizens at Mr. McCain's 20-minute news conference.
With its steep curve and absence of seats, however — the preferred viewing position is lying on the floor close to the screen — the dome is perfect for the film's mirrored beginning and end, in which the camera looks up into canopies of leaves, first vast and whispering and alive, later constrained and crackling and already beginning to die.
"It's a standing-room-only crowd," Gardner joked, alluding to the absence of seats for many of the 70 people who jammed into the overly warm room.
The inconveniences of the original — an unaccommodating space, harried staff, the absence of overflow seating — are charming, in the way of an old beach house, but feel almost cynical in a new construction.
The absence of actual seating in the theater suggested a challenge, and eventually the more assertive patrons began plucking chairs from the pile, anxious not to be left standing for the duration of this intermissionless, nearly two-hour show about Americans on various voyages of self-discovery.
Completed in 1923, the Coliseum was praised as both a stadium and an amphitheater, and for two Olympics and even the first Super Bowl, its design — and the absence of premium seating or VIP boxes — has allowed for what Linda Dishman, president and chief executive of the Los Angeles Conservancy, calls a "very democratic" experience.
Speaking perhaps for all of them is "Studio Chair," Daan Padmos' gigantic straight-backed, brushed steel chair where, in the significant absence of a seat, an oversized artist's palette rests askew.
The absence of rear-seat seatbelts makes travel around the region even more of an adventure.
The Liberal National party won 61.7% of the two-party preferred vote against Labor in Fairfax, so in the absence of Palmer this seat should be treated as a Coalition seat.
The mood remained tingly with excitement whenever a major gem came up for sale, despite an absence of boldface names seated in the auction room itself.
