Sentence examples for little absent from inspiring English sources

He seemed a little absent, not surprisingly, given his exhausting schedule.

But where Tristan and Isolde almost fill out the entire space of their opera, Chausson's equivalents, Lancelot and Guinevere, are nearly always a little absent, bodiless.

His physician father, he says, "was a little absent, but when he was present he was a little bit, um, destructive – emotionally".

Michael Pearson, Timbers Army, Portland Anotherroadadrawagainstnst a good team, another trip way out East in which the team came away with points … and yet, the juggernaut offense that was seemingly so unstoppable has been a little absent of late.

Indeed, experts see the "think global, act local" paradox remaining when it comes down to the granular details. "Localized store schematics mean little absent a systematic practice for implementing them on a daily basis in the store," wrote panelist James Tenser, principal, VSN Strategies.

It is like a physician who cannot help but see a human being in terms of his or her disparate parts, the muscles bracing that way, the bones bending this way; I cannot meet a person without being a little absent - part of me is always observing, always wondering: why this word?

He says he is becoming a little absent-minded.

It dipped onto middle stump from over the wicket, and straightened to hit the pad as Warner pushed a little absent-mindedly across the line.

A little absent-mindedness can be forgiven, though: Healy, a former editor at GQ, was busy preparing for his new gig as the editor in chief of Penthouse, which he started last month.

As John McNeill passed through the pearly gates, Saint Peter asked, "Where's your partner, Charlie?" "Oh," John said, a little absent-mindedly, "He'll be along.

Be a little absent-minded.