Sentence examples for like absence from inspiring English sources

With chapter titles like "Absence," "Friendship," "Advice" and "Complaint," Mallon essentially offers a tour of the human condition.

It's long ago and the house naps in the plush silence of a house asleep, like absence, I'm dreaming on the white bear's shoulder, paddling the slow hours, my fingers in his fur.

Between these two five-year spans — one prewar and one during wartime — prosecutions for similar crimes, like absence without leave or failing to appear for unit missions, have more than doubled, to an average of 390 per year from an average of 180 per year, Army data shows.

The problem with this arrangement, of course, is that gender and lack of wealth are, like absence of religious belief, not good reasons for depriving people of their equal political rights or opportunities to occupy social and political positions.

In the result, just like absence makes the heart fonder, abstinence makes the forbidden apple seem only sweeter.

Because the simulations use the ARTIVA hypothesis concerning the expression associations between parent and target gene expression profiles (autoregressive model), we expect all the results to be correct under ideal conditions (like absence of noise).

Like Dorothy Gale or James Bond, his everyman-like absence of history and personal ties seems daring and inspirational.

The source of community, emerging from the munus, is an unsettled obligatory indebtedness, a deficiency and lack, a void-like absence that must be filled, compensated for or repaid.

The anti-empathy lobbyist said that President Obama should have named a nominee who renders decisions "with a robot-like absence of human feeling - like Scalia".

The president's Godot-like absence-presence ("Sue, did the president call?" "No," goes the running joke) adds a vaguely existential dimension: Might we all, in a sense, be veeps, permanent understudies, dashing hither and thither while awaiting the big call-up?

We investigated the use of hospital staff 'influenza-like absences' (hospital staff-ILA), i.e. absence attributed to colds and influenza, to improve capture of influenza dynamics and provide resilience for hospitals.