Sentence examples for somewhat absent from inspiring English sources

Jeanie was warm and hospitable as she was doling out upgrades the first night, but for the rest of the weekend our hosts were somewhat absent.

Of an older, less complicated brother, a kind, loving but often somewhat absent mother; and of Knausgaard's father, a distant, unpredictable, sometimes harsh and often feared figure.

"This very smart mother was somewhat absent, and certainly the father was, and the grandfather marched with Patton, but he was not a rock.

There, at least, the Tunisian foreign minister, Mohammed Mouldi Kefi, provided the soaring rhetoric somewhat absent at the main event on Turtle Bay.

While family combinations can seem endless these days, the most common still involve what the "Stepwives" authors call "the man in the middle," who, in their book at least, seemed somewhat absent during their 10-year battle.

These beings may not be present to each other – they do seem somewhat absent in the body – yet, paradoxically, they also manage to occupy this fairly narrow space powerfully and fully.

The paradigmatic example of a floater is Raghubir Goyal, an amiable, somewhat absent-minded man in his sixties.

In that work, Redgrave — who has iconography on her side in terms of getting work, not to mention stoic productivity — makes such quick, intuitive choices, down to whistling somewhat absent-mindedly while preparing a meal, and treating ephemera like holy relics, that you don't catch up with all her character feels until you get home, close your eyes, and rewind her greatness in your mind).

Palladino added: "The understated coverage was somewhat surprising, even absent the lines of history.

While trunk somites are absent, somewhat irregular tail somites do form in spt mutants [ 14], concomitant with intact segmentation clock gene expression machinery [ 16].

Billy, though experienced, is still somewhat goofy and absent-minded.