Sentence examples for an absent one from inspiring English sources

Tolstoy can seem at once an intrusive narrator, telling us what to think, and an absent one, letting the world speak for itself.

By James Wood Tolstoy can seem at once an intrusive narrator, telling us what to think, and an absent one, letting the world speak for itself.

Children do need both their parents, but those who have witnessed the fragmentation of their family - and in many cases the outcome of separation or divorce is not just a distant father but an absent one - are hardly going to benefit from feeling abandoned by that big symbolic daddy, the Government, too.

A disabled dad is better than an absent one.

An absent one is best.

Pacquiao - a congressman in the Philippines, although an absent one for long periods - has vowed to fight on.

Farage – who is still officially an MEP though a largely absent one – is to host an hour-long programme four weekday evenings a week on LBC beginning from next Monday, the radio station has announced.

And then, we discovered that there is something even worse than a badly organised debate: a completely absent one.

Readers always feel that Tolstoy is both an intrusive narrator breaking in to explain things, telling us what to think, writing essays and sermons and a miraculously absent one, who simply lets his world narrate itself.

Readers always feel that Tolstoy is both an intrusive narrator — breaking in to explain things, telling us what to think, writing essays and sermons — and a miraculously absent one, who simply lets his world narrate itself.

(FM06) In one facility, two nurses were absent, one was on sick leave and the other went for training.