Sentence examples for only an absence from inspiring English sources

And without that modern framework there is only an absence, the familiar vortex that keeps pulling us back to things we had hoped to leave behind.

For most of the day, the Post's headline on its homepage was GRISLY NEW DETAILS — which was only odd in that, for so long, there hadn't been any details at all, only an absence and haunting speculation.

(Of course, this is selective, as I am quite dramatic about my own struggle when it suits me). MLK famously dubbed this a "negative peace," as it is no indicator of actual societal peace, only an absence of confrontation; everyone just settle down and don't make us uncomfortable.

It's a been a while since I wrote an action-type book, but I am working on one now and it does involve four young people – two girls, two boys – and I always try to make my girls really stand out". But it's not only an absence of female central characters which is a problem in children's books, believes former children's laureate Anne Fine: it's how the women are represented when they do appear.

A binary relation dataset typically falls into one of the two categories: (1) choice data, for which each data entry (whether "0" or a "1") reflects an active decision (either a positive or negative relation); and (2) association data, for which the "0"s indicate only an absence of a relation, and are usually much less informative than the "1"s.

Using HAD, we find not only an absence of population-level catch-up in linear growth, but a continued deterioration reflected in a decrease in mean HAD between 2 and 5 years; by contrast, HAZ shows either no change (DHS surveys) or an improvement in mean HAZ (some of the longitudinal data).

As they deteriorate freely, these buildings are generating a debris field of outdated components, architectural detritus that testifies not only to an absence of value but, more importantly, to an architectural culture that defined buildings as concepts, regarded decay as a theoretical impossibility and saw the difference between concrete and cardboard as immaterial.

Another indication for opioid rotation is the rare occurrence of resistance to opioids, defined not only by an absence of efficacy, but also by an absence of side effects despite a rapid increase in opioid dose (standard, expert agreement).

Why did you choose to tell it this way, with Yunior's fiancée present only as an absence?

In China's case, the United States not only suspected an absence of centrifuge facilities, it estimated that China had not yet mastered the technology even at the laboratory scale.

So going to watch the new hot band Pico v Island Trees at the Cat's Cradle - where as a callow youth who should have known better I went to see Huey Lewis and the News - was an experience characterised not only by an absence of tobacco (smoking seems to have been banned everywhere in America) but also by an absence of booze.