Sentence examples for blank presence from inspiring English sources

That place and what it has come to represent is a vast and blank presence at the periphery and yet somehow at the center of narrative vision in Sebald's work.

The finished product was a rectangle of radiant simplicity, an unfancy, richly hued blank presence that was the predictable result, Barrett insisted, of selecting proper materials, preparing them in patient, time-honored ways and approaching their manufacture with a spirit of total dedication.

"We can't just be a blank presence.

I suppose I saw her as a blank maternal presence against which all of the family's adventures could take place.

Control assays were also performed using acclimated anaerobic sludge containing 250 mL distilled water in the absence (Blank) and presence of PPL at different concentrations varying from 1.0 to 3.0 g L−1.

The reaction mixture (2 mL) contained a final concentration of 37.5 nmol/L APC in 75 mmol/L phosphate buffer (pH 7.0) at 37°C in the absence (blank) or presence of 20  μL of Trolox (1  μmol/L) or plasma, respectively.

Many colonial mapmakers preferred to leave the areas of predominantly indigenous presence blank, rather than to reproduce an indigenous geography; one example is Herman Moll's 1729 map of New England and the adjacent colonies, seen above.

D'Agata reads this chronicle of annihilation as a celebration of nothingness itself, an indication of the excitement of the artist before a blank canvas in the presence of pure potential.

The values of ba were shifted to higher values with reference to blank in the presence of HSLE.

C value is the absorbance of the control solvent (blank) in the presence of enzyme, where T is the absorbance of the tested sample (plant extract or positive control in the solvent) in the presence of enzyme.

Open image in new window Figure 10 Typical polarization curves for corrosion of mild steel in the (a) blank (b) the presence of 600 ppm inhibitor in hydrodynamic conditions.