Sentence examples for but absent from inspiring English sources

Rock was all but absent.

Construction standards were all but absent.

Explicit homoeroticism is all but absent.

To wit: grades are all but absent.

Defensively, the Lakers were all but absent.

Hidden meaning is all but absent".

And yet T-Pain has been all but absent lately.

He's here, mingling among us, present but absent.

But absent from these pitches are appeals to basic quality-of-service issues.

But the contractors have been anything but absent from the debate.

Race is central to his meaning, but absent from his message.