Sentence examples for best absent from inspiring English sources

By late Thursday night, three other Democrats seemed to sense their futility and left, leaving Republicans to easily push through amendments heralding "American exceptionalism" and the U.S. free enterprise system, suggesting it thrives best absent excessive government intervention.

The Theory of Everything is directed with style but a stern lack of pretension by the former documentarian James Marsh, who does his best to absent himself, presumably calculating this is a story with enough substance to sustain itself without smoke and mirrors.

Other critics, too, have questioned whether computers will really provide the educational boost that Negroponte preaches, in areas where formal schooling is poor at best and absent at worst.

The latter finding was in line with observations in primary care where symptom agreement was best for absent symptoms [ 19].

Instead, if my experience is any guide, you'll be viewed as a nut, or at best an absent-minded professor, who seems to get awfully lucky in the pool every year.

If only one of your best friends are absent, hang out with your other best friend who is not absent.

In August, the best performers are absent.

Unfortunately, Norwich's best player was absent, having failed to recover from the knee injury picked up against Crystal Palace.

If West Indies, whose best players are absent in a dispute over money, seemed the team least likely to progress, England was a close second.

The subversive (feminist) tensions of Ms. Rist's best works are absent here, but the work makes the brain so fuzzily relaxed you may not notice.

For instance, when he noticed that the lead detective's best friend was absent in the second half of his novel, Chandra decided to underscore the detective's isolation.