Then, as Auster puts it, "she was simply less present than before, far less present".
The drums sounded more muffled, I thought, the voice less present.
She was also "more irritable, more reactive, less present and absolutely less joyful in my life.
But as time went by – five, 10, 20 years, 25 – my father's absence became less present.
And as we shot, and because we shoot chronologically, her character became less and less present.
Many people would like to see America be less present in that region than it is now.
When Maurizio Pollini plays in some nondescript suit, his body-aliveness is no less present for us.
The singers, meanwhile, seemed even less present than the distant placement of their garret already makes them seem.
Not as in gone, exactly, but maybe just a little less present.
The military was notably less present on the streets on Friday than it was in previous weeks.
In the fourth, the entire spectrum is more or less present, darkened, off-key, with a blistery blur of orange in the lower left corner.
