Sentence examples for an absence of something from inspiring English sources

12.46pm GMT Talking of music, here's BT Sport commentator Darren Fletcher's opening gambit: "Blackburn, a place with 4,000 holes according to John Lennon but it's where the FA Cup starts…" Now I've not spent a lot of time in Blackburn, but is its greatest claim to fame genuinely that some people not from Blackburn once suggested there was an absence of something there?

But since 'vacuum' means an absence of something, you are also denying that there is something in the flask.

"If you see an absence of something, if you don't see yourself there, the invitation is there to help put yourself there".

It repeatedly fails to acknowledge that campaigning for an absence of something from video games, be it feminism, quality representation of non-white characters or other projects derogatorily described as "liberal", is itself censorship.

Such is the group's congenital hypocrisy: Gamergate repeatedly fails to acknowledge that campaigning for an absence of something from video games, be it feminism, quality representation of non-white characters, or other projects derogatorily described as "liberal", would also count as censorship at least according to Gamergate's working definition of the term.

A mum who cares far too much about her daughter's wedding, so much that it suggests a void in her heart, an absence of something that can't ever be filled, a mum jumping up and yelping at the exact moment her daughter gets married despite it defying protocol and etiquette, a mum who cries at a yellow cake because she never envisioned the icing being that colour; ii.

This makes the null hypothesis nil in the sense that it focuses on a lack or absence of something, and subsequently fails to correspond to a feature of theoretical interest.

In science, demonstrating the absence of something like a gene is difficult because a skeptic can always invent a reason why the target was accidentally missed.

It's an addiction, though the only one I can think of where a person is dependent on the absence of something.

Kristin, for instance, is continually troubled by a teacher's praise of her technical skills — which seems to imply the absence of something else, a "capacity for originality".

But how do you spot a continued disaster if its main indicator is the absence of something?