Sentence examples for regrettable absence from inspiring English sources

Given Womack's fame as a funk session musican, it's a regrettable absence.

Tim Dowling I do most of my shopping online, which lends itself dangerously to late-night, post-pub browsing and, as it turns out, a regrettable absence of any sense of scale.

The history of video game-to-film adaptations is littered with the rotting corpses of productions featuring half-arsed storylines, C-grade canding andistinctlyctly regrettable absence of directorial vision.

The enduring British fascination with life above and below stairs gets another stoking from Sunday, with ITV's transmission of Downton Abbey, a seven-part drama set in a grand country house just before the First World War and naturally starring, in the regrettable absence of Dame Judi, Dame Maggie Smith.

Perhaps most regrettable is the absence of a memorable scene of single combat like the decisive duel between Flynn and Basil Rathbone that ends the 1938 film.

This absence is regrettable because Tudor's ballets, when performed well, carry a timeless relevance.

She had appeared in serious roles before: regrettable here is the absence of Claude Autant-Lara's bitter 1958 "En Cas de Malheur," as well as "La Vérité" (1960), one of Henri-Georges Clouzot's last poison-pen letters to French hypocrisy.

'His absence is particularly regrettable,' Françoise Rudetski, a lawyer representing several victims, said.

At best this looks like a regrettable lack of co-ordination.The absence of visible progress in bringing cases related to the files looks all the more glaring when set against the alacrity with which some European countries exploited them.

While their absence is deeply regrettable, the international community and Somalia authorities must agree ways to ensure that civil society and the public are able to participate in peace and reconstruction plans in future.

"After a five year absence it is regrettable that Bangladesh now has polio again but UNICEF, WHO and Rotary are working with the Government to support them in all their efforts to stamp out polio and again make it a polio-free country," said UNICEF Country Representative, Louis-Georges Arsenault. Louis-Georges Arsenault