But those issue ads can be almost indistinguishable from traditional attack ads, absent a specific appeal to vote for or against the candidate.
His intimate involvement with the subject lends this history an emotional appeal usually absent from a scholarly work.
The rowdy opening ensemble, It's the Hard Knock Life, is Food Glorious Food with more attitude; Annie's plaintive appeal to absent parents, Maybe, is the direct equivalent of Oliver's Where Is Love?; while the big chorus set-piece NYC presents a swinging snapshot of the Big Apple in the 1930s as effectively as Who Will Buy? establishes a sentimentalised version of Victorian London.
They saw a sort of political genius in its simplicity and appeal, something absent from the slogans of today's front-runners — former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's "Fighting for You," which sounds like a leftover from a campaign run by the consultant Bob Shrum, or Trump's vacuous call to make a great nation (that is, America) "great again".
That appeal was conspicuously absent yesterday.
For now, however, with little sign of inflation in the prices of goods and services, and with wage pressures absent, Ms. Yellen can safely appeal to Democratic senators by espousing the basic need to achieve the Fed's targets.
But absent from these pitches are appeals to basic quality-of-service issues.
But noticeably absent from these pitches are appeals to basic quality-of-service issues that most wireless users deal with daily.
For many the payoff is creating an enduring "object" with physical dimension, weight and a tactile appeal that is increasingly absent in the immaterial, digital world.
The appeals chamber found that absent specific evidence that Perisic intended that the assistance be used to commit crimes, his conviction could not be upheld.
