Sentence examples for sheer absence from inspiring English sources

In Cleopatra's case, the sheer absence of truth has guaranteed the legend.

The sheer absence of information can be cause for more unrest.

"This is a country with a terrible history of sheer absence of law and order.

Bad enough to be so ignorant of the history but, in politics as in life, it is the sheer absence of humility that grates the most.

Those areas are distinguished by the sheer absence of economic life: few hardware stores, pharmacies, and restaurants, and virtually no banks.

Their efforts were being frustrated by a sheer absence of information about how many people were working at the site, where construction crews were completing work on the power plant being built by Kleen Energy Systems.

And now, I fear I have settled into a desperate phase where I am overwhelmed by the sheer number of things I want to do, and the absolute absence of a clear choice.

Absolute absence?

Still, by European standards there's a refreshing absence of sheer economic horror.

We are doing yoga right now, you and me, we are exchanging our philosophy of life.' Sheer cheek, energy and absence of self-doubt are the key to Choudhury's charisma and it is hard not to like him.

In his supervisor's presence Hijab was mostly struck dumb with sheer terror; in his absence, he says, he sometimes demonstrated he was catching a spark off the old master.