Sentence examples for absent master from inspiring English sources

The years pass and the images accumulate: "pages of the sea / are a book left open by an absent master"; "the pleats of the shallows are neatly creased / and decorous and processional".

This track works because of the Afroganic remix which adds the roots-reggae backing track Legend didn't know the song needed, and Andre 3000, hip-hop's absent master, still impossibly charming and toting vowels crisp as a pastor's collar.

In the opening shot two elderly peasants (Ramón Del Rio and Georgina Genes) materialize from a thick green forest, suspend a length of fabric between trees and settle down to contemplate the weather (oppressive, thundering), the yelping of a nearby dog and the fate of its absent master, their son, a soldier off at war.

You may want to quibble about some absent masters.

Yet for all the familiar ingredients, including the bourgeois family at its center, "The Page Turner" is finally ersatz Chabrol, absent the master's perverse wit, complex psychology, social sensitivities and visual flair.

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".

In that respect, he more closely resembles an absent-minded professor than a master of the universe.

In the morning session, furious competition was triggered whenever works by major masters now all but absent from the market appeared.

Also the E. coli-type master switch proteins FlhCD are absent.

Like the French critics before him, Mr. Conrad sees Hitchcock's movies as belonging to a Nietzschean world in which God is dead or absent (replaced by the director, as presiding chess master) and old moral certitudes have become obsolete.

The Papillon attacked Speedy, which had a reduced crew owing to her master Mr Marshall, and 12 men, being absent in command of a prize Speedy had taken earlier.