Sentence examples for play the absence from inspiring English sources

Sir David, for one, has argued that his 1993 play "The Absence of War", about a fictional Labour leader clearly modelled on Neil Kinnock, has a deeper resonance with the passage of time.

And the stylized touches Mr. Ostermeier does add — the gender play, the absence of naturalistic scenery, some brief video interludes — add a layer of distance that Fassbinder's clinical approach hardly needs, bringing the temperature down to near the freezing point.

But Sir David did reserve some pity for politicians, recounting how during the research for his play The Absence of War, in which he followed the Labour party before the 1992 election, he had found Neil Kinnock "an utterly decent man damned by a terrible historical scenario".

When Kinnock let me into his strategy meetings during the 1992 election, to give me background for my play The Absence of War, I had a strong idea of what the Labour party was and what view of the world it represented under Kinnock's own leadership.

Further, at the time I was happy to accept the argument, later articulated on stage by George Jones, the Labour leader in my play The Absence of War, that the Labour party was "the only practical instrument that exists in this country for changing people's lives for the good".

"They're doing a selection of the National's greatest hits over the last 50 years," explained the actor, who will appear in a staged extract from Sir David Hare's 1993 play The Absence of War.

EXTRA POINTS Coach AL GROH wants to play down the absence of his newfound pass-rusher, the rookie JOHN ABRAHAM, who has a pulled abdominal muscle.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00772.016 Another issue to address is the potential compensatory role that the prosurvival Bcl-2 family members might play in the absence of Bax/Bak protein in affecting the MPTP-dependent cell death.

They include best new musical and best supporting performance in a musical for Michael Crawford, who returned to the West End after an 18-year absence to play the villainous Count Fosco.

Anderson's own work, published this year in the journal Child Development, shows that kids three and under who played while an episode of the game show Jeopardy! aired in the background spent half as long with a toy before abandoning it, compared with those playing in the absence of the program.

Bettman played down the absence of upfront money, and said, "If this works as well as we hope, we'll be more than fairly compensated to my expectations and beyond, and NBC can make a lot of money".