Sentence examples for plays is absent from inspiring English sources
The self-conscious, labored effect often evident in American stagings of Irish plays is absent here.
The smoothness with which Ibsen embodied theme through character and incident in his greatest plays is absent here.
The fog of repression that smothers many American or British productions of Chekhov's plays is absent from the Maly Drama Theater's emotionally unbridled staging of "Uncle Vanya," which can be seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater through Sunday.
Call me a retro, angry black woman -- or Stokely Carmichael in a designer dress, as Juan Williams, one of the few journalists of color white journalists deign to recognize, called Michelle Obama last weekend -- but why is it that whenever the impact of race is analyzed the role that white privilege plays is absent?
When the person is the object of one's action, a whole ethical structure enters into play that is absent when the object of one's action is a thing.
Wayne Rooney, the only member of the current squad to play that night is absent, injured so there will be no bad memories to recall.
Several Yorkshire players were absent, playing representative matches, but the game had consequences later in the season.
But Winton Dean, as stoically played here by Michael Moriarity, is absent even when he is present: it's powerful psychological stuff, but dramatically inert.
They average 4.6 runs per game when he plays, and 4.0 when he is absent.
Yet in Perry's telling Douglass plays a minor role (and is absent from the biographical sketches prefacing the book).
