Sentence examples for was so absent from inspiring English sources

He found in Galeotti the reassurance, the love even, that was so absent in his childhood home.

The past few games, Martin was so absent that Scott said he wondered whether Martin was "in the Bahamas or Jamaica".

The twitterati started to speculate why Cable was so absent from the press work and defence of the document, as unimpressively, and without precedent the man once regarded as "the most popular man in politics" has been turned into a laughing stock by students and academics alike.

What lent life to the sport was the happy discovery that Conan Doyle, who died in 1930, was so absent-minded that contradictions permeate his tales.

But it was hard not to befriend Saul, who was so absent-mindedly dedicated to the craft of restoration that he once emerged from his boat in his underwear after epoxying his pants to the bilge.

His wife, formerly Sidonie Goossens, harpist, backed up the director's testimony, saying he was so absent-minded that she had to see he left the house in the morning with the right clothes and no odd socks.

The good-looking legend was, of course, a mere mortal who participated in ­climbing-team politics and was "so absent-minded that he would drive his colleagues on Everest to distraction".

SHE Yes, and I knew a woman who was so absent-minded that when she gave a $50 bill for a Christmas gift, she tried to rub the price mark off of it.

Can't understand how she could be so absent minded.

Exotic detail, certainly; cultural differences; the rich patchwork that had been so absent in postwar Poland.

A French official wonders why "the Germans are so absent" from Europe's deliberations.