Sentence examples for mere absence from inspiring English sources

There are countervailing forces that keep it stuck, beyond the mere absence of an impetus to move.

It is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black. . . .

If thinking is considered the mere absence of activity, then it might well look like a repudiation of life, and "The Book of Disquiet" is shot through with expressions of boredom, regret, and despair.

The new study, published in The Annals of Family Medicine, reports, however, that the mere absence of a high school diploma appears to be an independent risk factor for heart disease mortality.

Certainly, some operagoers may have been incensed by the mere absence of the customary props, but for most others the main problem was that the substitute action didn't make much sense.

And by the way, if you are interested to know why, in Africa, almost all girls drop out of education at puberty, one reason is the lack of sanitary provision – the mere absence of a circle of sticks for privacy.

The so-called unconditioned dharmas are mere absences, not positive entities.

Buddhist Epistemologists generally subscribed to the principle that mere absences of properties are of a lesser ontological status than positive things.

I experience Gabriel's death as tragic because I had the opportunity to know and love him, while I experience those children as mere absences because I never got the chance to know them.

Must that peace always be conjured up as unexciting, the mere yawning absence of hostilities, nothing more than a dull interlude between sensational battles soon to be renewed?

Features such as orientation and order of the elements in a promoter underline regulatory mechanisms which go beyond the mere presence, absence or spacing between motifs or distance to the transcriptional start site.