Sentence examples for absent him from inspiring English sources

Rhoades had figured himself as a kind of shaman; absent him, the work felt hollowed out.

I am convinced that, had Gorky lived, he would have suppressed line, perhaps in a way that, absent him, fell to Rothko.

The model for Roman Catholic contemplative living has traditionally called for the contemplative to absent him or herself from worldly concerns.

In the earliest years of Islam Imam and scholar Ali ibn al-Husayn (658-713) wrote in one of his works: "These are your duties towards your neighbor: Protect his interests when he is absent; show him respect when he is present; help him when he is inflicted with any injustice.

His performance exudes qualities that have been absent from him on screen for some time: fallibility, humility, warmth.

The qualities in Ivanka Trump most praised by her father – her gentility, her business acumen, her religious faith – are largely absent in him, but by Ivanka Trump's telling, she is nothing but her father's daughter.

The usual self-love of authors, the care with which they handle their own productions, is absent in him; when he refers to a book he's writing, it's usually to say he has three weeks to finish it in; often it's not even clear which book he means.

It was notable, indeed, that his best performances in a Barcelona shirt came when Messi was absent, allowing him to emerge from the shadows and flourish as the team's main attacking force.

Hughes believed that in the end there is only the violated emptiness of acceptance of our fallen nature: like the painting of Goya's dog, "whose master is as absent from him as God is from Goya".

Finding him absent from the list of pending cases, they jailed him overnight and started deportation proceedings.

His first published poems, all addressed or dedicated to the absent girl, earned him a job as a gossipy literary columnist for the Paris-Journal, which allowed him to befriend (and irritate) André Gide, Paul Claudel and other popular French writers.