An opera without singing might seem like an affair without embraces, but such weighty absences characterized "Decreation," by the Canadian poet and classics scholar Anne Carson, staged Monday at the Culture Project as a benefit for the adventurous literary magazine Fence.
He argued that the ruling, in the case of Karen Ann Quinlan, did not provide an adequate ethical framework for such a weighty decision in the absence of a patient's stated wishes.
"Restoration of competitiveness and weighty fiscal consolidation in the absence of currency adjustment is difficult but doable," they said, "as long as politicians and the general public are willing to accept some upfront pain in return to longer-term gains".
But the courts have been reluctant to do so, especially in the absence of fraud and especially in weighty elections.
Anderson is described as amiable, with a reservation: Lately, however, there had been a distinct feeling of strain and a kind of spiritual absence, as if he were turning weighty problems over in his mind.
Anderson is described as amiable, with a reservation: **{:.break one} ** Lately, however, there had been a distinct feeling of strain and a kind of spiritual absence, as if he were turning weighty problems over in his mind.
(p.252) The teeth of mammals, the milk that nourishes their young, their eyes that develop while still in the darkness of the womb, and their lungs that form before encountering any opportunity to draw a breath in the absence of knowledge about developmental genetics, these struck Paley as especially weighty examples of foresightful design.
The album is dense and weighty, appreciative of the past that produced it, a redemption born out of what El-P calls "a pure absence of hope".
From this time a business letter from Amy Dudley survives, settling some debts of her husband's in his absence, "although I forgot to move my lord thereof before his departing, he being sore troubled with weighty affairs, and I not being altogether in quiet for his sudden departing".
