Sentence examples for only absent from inspiring English sources

Jamie's parents aren't missing, only absent — his mother institutionalized, his father unwilling to acknowledge his bastard except in private.

In some groups it is normative behaviour, whereas in others it is not only absent but beyond imagination.

Lib Dem sources said they were hoping to draw a line under the disagreement and claimed Laws was only absent because he had official meetings in the department.

Yet here she is not only absent from her own cause, but simply climbs up on the old Eve Ensler vagina bandwagon.

The council voted 30 to 20 to approve the congestion pricing plan, so the vote of Ms. Foster — the only absent council member — would not have changed the outcome.

David Cameron has blocked Nick Clegg from appearing in a general election TV debate three weeks before polling day because he doesn't want to be the only absent leader, it has been claimed.

"I've voted for everything [on LGBT rights]," he said, adding that he was only absent from a 2002 vote because he was on paternity leave following the birth of his daughter.

Pleasure is not only compromised, but absent in these filmic essays on the absence of God.

Similar observations were made for sRNAs present only on Sheila Smith but absent in Iowa strain.

Sarcomeric structures in mutants are almost entirely absent and only rare triads are observed.

Sclerenchymatous ring continuous; mucilage canals central only or absent 2. 2. Mucilage canals absent 3.  –2.