Sentence examples for absent things from inspiring English sources

This last aspect of the disjunction problem might be called the problem of representation in absentia: how do we explain our capacity to think about absent things?

Aegritudo is a (false) evaluation of present things as bad, while libido is an equally flawed evaluation of future, or absent things as good.

This is true of all casts – they lead us back to the absent thing itself (witness the casts taken from the spaces left by the dead beneath the ash of Pompeii).

i have been reading a lot of badly written detective fiction - i like the idea of a macguffin, this absent thing, this weird hole that entire plots are constructed around, when it is barely a glimmer, and because of it, stories falter and firmer surfaces give way.

Absent such things, place your bets.

Firms like Alibaba grew dominant when local rivals were scarce and foreign ones absent, but things are changing.

There he argued that all explanations in human affairs implicitly involve the "what if?" question: what would have happened if the posited cause had been absent and things had turned out otherwise?

Absent those things, earnings would've risen 14% last year, not 18%.

Almost the entire research staff is absent, doing things like visiting the customers of companies in which Janus invests or visiting their parking lots.

"All stories deal with things absent".

Even absent a sovereign, things in London chugged on effectively.