Sentence examples for absent dead from inspiring English sources

Here, too, Mama is absent; dead, again, it is presumed.

Ensure the parents are absent (dead, missing, away — you'll figure it out).

Absent dead bodies, nothing seems to deter the N.R.C. from sustaining reactor operation".

He starts by investigating the aunts in Jane Austen, having quoted a passage in Ruth Perry's book The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature 1748-1818...mothers inovelsls of the period are notoriously absent – dead or otherwise missing.

It's an intriguing tale in which missing, absent and dead mothers are the core.

Their mothers are abusive or depressive; their fathers are indifferent or absent or dead.

In the situation in which the hydatidiform mole develops, the embryo is usually either absent or dead.

Delilah and the show are father-fixated, redressing the absent or dead or distant father by positing an all-knowing, all-loving God.

Again and again CW tells its viewers that parents — who are so often depicted as absent or dead or distracted — aren't everything.

I used the same methods I used to write my first book, "The Golden Spruce" (which first appeared as an article in The New Yorker), in which the two principal characters were also absent or dead.

— but in the classic stories, from "Cinderella" to "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," the hero's parents are more likely to be absent or dead than cruel or incompetent.