Sentence examples for absent characters from inspiring English sources

He danced awkwardly, threw childish tantrums, growled, and was haunted by props that eerily evoked absent characters.

Late in the novel, the proceedings are interrupted by a pair of chapters — discrete short stories, almost — presenting the final days of two otherwise absent characters, Zoe's father and Jake's.

Despite its contemporary milieu and restive camerawork, "Rapt" brings to mind classic films noirs like "Laura" and "The Killers" in which somehow physically absent characters come into focus through investigations.

There are two absent characters at the start of Craig Wright's "Lady": a dog (the title character), who loves to run, be called a good girl and eat Pop-Tarts, and a 40-ish politician, Graham, who is pro-Bush, pro-Cheney and pro-war.

'Lost': an example of the appearance of characters deemed to be no longer present or not sufficiently recognizable; location of absent characters inferred from topological relations and position in the carcass.

In May last year Mr Sarkozy made a one-day trip there to try to smooth ties.The absent character in all this is Mr Chirac.

First she had a warm-up, an exercise to get her back into her rhythm while reminding us of an absent character: "Where is Jake Ballard?

The prequel to 'Treasure Island' emphasized how absent queer characters are from historical television shows.

Even the "magic" is absent mysticism biotic characters have brain implants that let them interface with technology for manipulating a fifth cosmological force, which is also the setting's justification for FTL.

John Gregory Dunne is keenly present on every page, yet absent in character.

One is the tale of an elderly female patient incarcerated in the Roscommon Regional Mental Hospital; the other is that of her (male) psychiatrist of long standing.When the omniscient narrator is absent, each character speaks on behalf of his or her own private self.