The protagonists are always absent, but their presence evoked in the image.
There are the classic pushy parents, who get irritated and sometimes aggressive if their appointments are not exactly on time; the workaholics who barely look up from their phones; and, worst of all, the ones who are always absent.
Some states send the police after high school students who are always absent.
I was interested in the physicality of making art – which, in my sculptures, is always absent from the finished piece.
The bike lanes give me a sense of security that was always absent from my experience in New York.
Most birds have four toes, the fifth being always absent, but there are many variations in the number of digits, or phalanges, representing reductions of the basic arrangement.
A Freudian analysis of Leonardo's paintings of the Holy Family attempts to expose the artist's problems with father figures (Joseph is always absent, you see).
As the last hour nears, Buffy is fully entering adulthood -- she has already lost her mother (her dad was always absent) and relations are strained between her and her father figure, her watcher Giles.
Codes of sexual harassment imagine an entirely symmetrical universe, where people are never outrageous, rude, awkward, excessive or confused, where sexual interest is always absent or reciprocated, in other words a universe that does not entirely resemble our own.
The secondary phase Cu x Se is always absent during the formation process of CuInSe2 via the present approach, and the detailed reason will be discussed later.
Almost 120 years later, the godfather of intelligent design creationism, Phillip Johnson, expressed much the same view, asking, "What is Darwinism?" and answering, "it is a necessary implication of a philosophical doctrine called scientific naturalism, which is based on the a priori assumption that God was always absent from the realm of nature.
