"The fact that he didn't say it was very eloquent by its absence," said Max Brantley, editor of the Arkansas Times, a widely read alternative weekly.
Far more significant than the rise of the "institutional extremes" is the absence of eloquent leadership at the center.
Indeed, the absence of Hazard here seems a fairly eloquent statement in itself.
Mr. Johnson also contributed a fine essay, although it includes a crabby conclusion from the book "Goya" by the art critic Robert Hughes, who laments the absence of a contemporary artist "who could successfully make eloquent and morally urgent art out of human disaster".
Achieving prominence as the most eloquent member of an embassy dispatched to Avignon to complain of the absence of the papacy, he excited the admiration of many (including the poet Petrarch) at the papal court.
This lack of color is reflected in Jin's quiet, careful, restrained prose — prose whose absence of flourish can, at times, make it all the more eloquent.
And Esch, bruised by neglect, eloquent, pregnant, her father an alcoholic and her dead mother, "present in the absence", a reminder of what has been lost.
The absence of the Second and Fourth Symphonies of Walter Piston two of the most eloquent entries in the American canon from our concert halls is a mystery.
We never came home from an absence that its face did not light up & speak out its eloquent welcome -- & we could not enter it unmoved.'" -- Letter to Joseph Twichell, quoted in "Mark Twain: A Biography". "A flying saucer-shaped Modern arena in Honolulu, Blaisdell Arena is very much under-appreciated and endangered.
The absence of the Second and Fourth Symphonies of Walter Piston — two of the most eloquent entries in the American canon — from our concert halls is a mystery.
