(The utter absence of rhythm here registers almost as an act of passive protest).
Every day was a game, and excellence was expected despite the utter absence of practice.
"The Coming Anarchy" is informed by a rock-solid, unwavering realism and an utter absence of sentimentality.
No, porn is not the problem: it's the complete and utter absence of any other narrative that is, and the disappointing failure of our government to provide one.
Absorbing them again in fits of nostalgia thanks to the miracle of YouTube, what is most striking about these programmes is not their shocking lack of ethnic diversity but the utter absence of fear about employment.
And the worst thing about the film isn't the numbingly repetitive and monotonous cataclysms that the moralistic mercenaries bring about, but the utter absence of even a glimmer of conscience regarding the spectacular violence they're responsible for.
But where O'Brien's stories of rural Irish life are often marked by the suppression of sensuality, which causes them to appear bursting at their seams, McCann's are characterized by the utter absence of sensuality.
He cited "1) the appearance of the head, 2) the timbre of the voice, 3) the non-development of the breasts," and "the utter absence of anything like a uterus or ovaries," as evidence of the subject's insufficient femininity.
The flipness, the isolation, the casual detachment and blank simplicity with which White sermonizes to his viewers suggests the utter absence of observation and of introspection that went into the movie.
Cholera is preventable and easily treated, but containment has been stymied by the chronic deficiency — or utter absence — of clean water and sanitation systems in Haiti, particularly in the countryside, where cholera hit first and hardest.
In some ways, despite the utter absence of noodles, Momofuku Ssäm Bar, at least in its daytime hours, seems to more closely bear out the analogy — it's fast, the food leaves a sodium slick on the tongue, and there's a certain retro charm to its budget pretensions (plastic sporks and already worse-for-wear metal trays).
