For black households, this is often exacerbated by absent fathers.
In Brentano's poem a series of wives agonize over the occupational hazards faced by absent husbands.
"Absence", once more denoting an addressee, is echoed by "Absent" as an adjective, the subject of which is "I".
Consequently, many people in the north are trapped in poor quality, overpriced rented accommodation owned by absent landlords.
The Netherlands, winning while waiting for the injured Arjen Robben to return, might well be inspired by absent friends.
Although its Main Street is lined with motels and inns, Fort Bragg also abounds in "vacation rentals," private homes rented by absent owners through commercial agencies.
But while proxy voting by absent Duma members is relatively common, it was not immediately clear that the rules permitted voting by the deceased.
Yes, I may have suddenly been seized by "absent handbag anxiety", which resulted in a spontaneous duty-free purchase (of which we will never speak again) but I travelled light for only the second time in my life.
Bodies burnt to ashes wait to be removed by absent funeral services; corpses in an advanced state of decomposition have a strong smell that even keeps stray dogs away.
We have asked them to fill the role often left by absent parents; deliver excellence in examination results; develop character in our young people; and provide extra-curricular activities.
"To read Bejan Matur", writes Maureen Freely in the introduction, "is to walk in a windswept desert strewn with bones and broken bodies and stones stained red by absent gods … It is a haunted, desolate and fragmented landscape".
