Indeed, as Deadspin notes, various sports reporters were told that N.F.L. and Ravens officials had seen it; they relayed heavy hints that it would show all those mysterious complexities, and help to explain why Rice's suspension was so light — though the choreography of Rice's supposed limited responsibility is, again, hard to picture, absent an invisible Rube Goldberg machine in the elevator.
The promotional literature projects an alluring, perhaps flashier, racing image; absent from the pictures are the small children prominently displayed in the Slickcraft brochures.
"The bigger picture is absent," he said.
While the information my sources gave me is accurate, it is far from a complete picture and, absent more detail, could be misleading to readers".
And by the time the demonstrations were over, this one picture - strangely absent of large crowds, dramatic scenes or tense confrontations - had been shared millions of times.
But this can perfectly well be true without one undergoing a percept with the content spot here in this picture but absent here in that one.
The dark humour of the earlier pictures is absent, and it's less a conventional horror story than a tale of romantic obsession hinting at Jane Eyre and anticipating Rebecca.
Even so, this absent picture, owing to the long shadow it has cast in its persistent questioning of the nature and purpose of art, is perhaps the most dominant presence in the entire show.
BRADLEY BIRKENFELD (pictured) was conspicuously absent from a press conference on September 11th to announce his award of $104m from the Internal Revenue Service IRSS) for exposing schemes used by UBS, his former employer, to help Americans avoid taxes.
Although there are studies for these three grand paintings, and superb variations of their subjects, the pictures themselves are absent from the Brooklyn show, which has traveled from museums in Denmark and Germany, and is a more modest enterprise than the 1977 survey.
However, this benefit was observed only for neutral pictures; and it was completely absent for the emotional pictures.
