It was a yearning within Dodi buried deep from childhood; a desire to fill the absence and inadequacy with his father's approval.
He has always been searching for the woman, the one who will somehow erase the past, calm his craziness, understand him, nurture him, fill the absence and yet remain the mysterious "Other", as he calls her.
But the most radical new idea has been of video and film installation as a genre in itself, independent of cinema, while seeming to fill the absence of an alternative culture of the moving image.
The joint liability of the group enabled social collateral to fill the absence of physical collateral.
It is the result of a research project that aims to accomplish two goals: firstly, to fill the absence in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) world of a solid Java-based alternative to PostGIS, the leading spatial extension written in C. Secondly, to exploit the advantages of Java and the Java geospatial libraries over C in terms of portability and easiness to extend.
Purists will always argue that something is lost when the old techniques are left behind, but these kids fill the absence of vinyl promos with new methods that have their own merit traits of what he calls "the Soundcloud generation".
By following the course of the Vistula – one of the last great natural rivers in Europe – and then criss-crossing the country during the first international car rally in generations, he begins to fill the absences in our knowledge.
On the offensive side, the Red Sox have filled the holes despite the absence of Ellsbury, Cameron, Pedroia and, now, Kevin Youkilis for the year.
Goytisolo's novel The Blind Rider is filled with the absence of his wife of many years, an absence mentioned in the opening pages merely as "her departure".
