Sentence examples for potent absence from inspiring English sources

Suárez was a thrilling presence one year, a potent absence the next.

A goofball, a profligate, even a rather silly-seeming person at times, he still makes for a horribly potent absence.

He must have been a potent absence for his then Baltimore-based daughter, and his collagist approach to films has certainly influenced her.

Or more obviously the most potent absence in the room, the man who owns all this, and whom Benítez admitted he had not actually met yet.

Hook interweaves Barrie's unexamined longings with a story of his own life, which, though full of potent absences, echoes Peter Pan's and Barrie's refusal to grow up.

A potent, reproachful absence.

But once your eyes adjust to what you are looking at, "nothing" becomes something much more potent, which is absence.

One of the things that makes "West of Then" so potent is the absence of easy explanations or answers.

The other showed that the inhibitory effect of μM concentrations of ouabain on K+ uptake in cultured astrocytes is much less potent in the absence of Ca2+ in the incubation medium.

In "From Grit to Gloss" (Nov. 13), about the transformation of the East Village, Richard Perez says that "the Astor Place tower is the most potent symbol of the absence of urban grit," and then asks if that mirrored glass tower looks "wildly out of place?

Between the two activators lies a transcriptional silencer, which is a potent repressor in the absence of the AP-1 site.