Some members of the Hill were noticeably absent, including Valley’s father and the Dimblewits. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“No; I have found when she is absent this long, she is liable not to come back till late.” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

Hamlet, absent from me, grew a mystery to me, a masked god with two faces, both of which hid yet another self. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Then one day I came to school and Ashley was absent. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She’ll probably think I’m absent because I stayed out late listening to Adam and Shooting Star in Portland. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus, his sister had no other choice but to involve his mother while his father was absent. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

These factors—cultural, technological, conceptual, political—were absent in China, and hence the Chinese admired clockwork but had no use for it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Let us think of those among our absent friends who are more cheerfully employed,” cried Emma. Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

“What I wanted to say,” continued Mr. Pontellier, with his hand on the knob; “I may have to be absent a good while. Would you advise me to take Edna along?” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a blanket pulled over his head, was apparently asleep, absenting himself from the whole affair. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of those absent had good excuses, such as having to attend to an increasing number of patients ill with the fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In the late twentieth century humans did not much die of plague—not because it was absent, but because resistance was high. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no electricity, only natural light which was stained brown, as though by the absent beer. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Now, there was a rule in my school which gave teachers authority to expel a pupil who was absent from school for over a month without a solid reason. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another lady asked about her cat who had been absent for three days. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Pigs were rare or absent on the islands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was as distracted and as smiling in bed as she was in everything else; relaxed and simple, but absent. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is not the best time for you to be absent.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her lip curled in anger and she said, “You have been absent all day and you expect no punishment? Come here!” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly everyone, Washington observed with consternation and annoyance, had “matters of private concernment which required them to be absent.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Senate in 1914, he was absent for the debates on women’s suffrage and Prohibition—two of the biggest political issues of his time. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Dyson’s critique was a fair one, but like other media commentators, he remained silent about where all the absent black fathers could be found. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

My parents didn't want to be absent, but they weren't left with much choice. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Ms. Burns looked at them, her face both cloudy and sunny, her skin absent of her normal brown. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone will be asking me why I’ve been absent for over two weeks. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Her father was absent; her older half brother sometimes had to hunt squirrels for the family to eat. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Pastor Johnson, in a suit, but this time, instead of a Bible, he held a sign up that said, rashad is absent again today, but GOD is never absent. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When a parent is absent, you’re left in the lurch of not knowing, and it’s so easy to fill that space with negative thoughts. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Nobody peeked their head in the door to see if I was absent or sick or maybe having a convulsion in the middle of the floor. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

This was becoming the new background of Finny’s life, this purely medical element from which bodily health was absent. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Larkin, who liked to have her nose in everything, was conspicuously absent. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now he was frequently absent from the foundation and my competitions. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

On the infrequent occasions when one of us did become sick enough to stay in bed, Grandma and Dad thought the best treatment was the absent treatment. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was kind of flattered that she’d noticed he was absent. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

When the Wabash Cannonball steamed in on schedule, the town bulged with people, but the lovebirds, Junior and Vandalia, were absent. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The tall blonde girl who played the role of the Fjerdan wolf in silvery furs was notably absent. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Bent ox er their instruments, three hundred Fertilizers were plunged, as the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning entered the room, in the scarcely breathing silence, the absent- minded, soliloquizing hum or whistle, of absorbed concentration. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was certain that my visitor had been the villainous Edmund, and I shuddered to think of his fury when he found me absent. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Yet when Oppenheimer arrived in Washington with the letter, Stimson was absent—a man of seventy-seven trying to recover his strength at an Adirondacks resort after the superhuman exertions of the summer. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

You were absent every time it really counted. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

It was easy to be absent from a study hall Mr. Tuffett guarded. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He patted my cheek in his terribly absent way, and bent down, and kissed the top of my head. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He stands up and plays, sometimes he has that absent expression which violinists get when they close their eyes, or again he sways the instrument to the rhythm and smiles across to me. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My mama told me to sell her for a dollar,” I said, feeling that I was being too aggressive and trying to switch the moral blame for my aggressiveness to my absent mother. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says, If you’re ever absent it better be a death, not a death in the family but your own death. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t talked to her in Mixed Media for two days, and then he was absent, but here he is now. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I have to be absent for a while. Do not wait for me.—D.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Behind the smoke the expression on his face seemed lost, vague, absent. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

This is not to say stigma is absent for white people convicted of crimes; it is present and powerful. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

On his door he tacked the same sign he had posted there before, stating that he would be absent for several days on business. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She knew such high ideals were absent from Rowan’s training, but it didn’t mean he didn’t hold onto them in his heart, despite his bloodthirsty mentor. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Instead, the Brazilians looked at the fourth main haplogroup—Haplogroup A is its unimaginative name—which is almost completely absent from Siberia but found in every Native American population. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“She has been one of the most vocal on the council arguing for action against Kronos’s minions. If she is absent, the gods will decide nothing. We will lose another year of war preparations.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

There is a silver dragon that curls around part of the now visible clockwork, a tiny princess in a carved tower who paces in distress, awaiting an absent prince. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mute again, indifferent, absent, she had returned to her corner. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know how long he plans on being absent, but it is very thoughtless of him not to have got in touch with me.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

All the usual constraints that limit the use of medical care by the general population are absent. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they are absent from school three days in a row. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

All of this was absent not only from my high school textbooks, but from the academic accounts they were based on. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The man indicated the absent villagers with a sweep of his hands. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She is wearing a cream-yellow blouse with a collar the luster of the absent moon. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cook, who worked at the elementary school attended by Mrs. Colbey's children, eventually instructed one of the school cafeteria workers to call the police about the absent infant. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My friends in Cambridge had become a kind of family, and I felt a sense of belonging with them that, for many years, had been absent on Buck’s Peak. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I was late a few times and absent twice because I’m still me, but not bad overall. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

At first I just thought she was a bit immature, but it was more than that, she was sort of absent. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ku’oosh continued slowly, in a soft chanting voice, saying, “Maybe you don’t know some of these things,” vaguely acknowledging the distant circumstance of an absent white father. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It might have held a presence medieval; and, reaching to the desk for pencil and paper, I sketched in fancy with an absent mind a profile, pale and aquiline. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, man, I’m not trying to say anything bad about Rashad. I’m just saying that spray painting ‘Rashad is absent again today’ on the concrete in front of school is like, I don’t know, extreme. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Mother played along nicely, Father looked on stonily, and Ravi was mercifully absent be­cause of a cricket match, which did not prevent him from comment­ing at great length on the event. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

In Soweto, religion filled the void left by absent men. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Until that time, the sacrifices I had made had not gone much further than being absent from my wife and family during weekends and returning home late in the evening. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A concentrated dignity, previously absent, marked her features. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

We heard that almost two hundred hard-core segregationist students protested our presence by being absent from school on the day of that rally. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She longed to enquire of the housekeeper whether her master was really absent, but had not the courage for it. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Following his ill-fated endorsement of May-Johnson and his subsequent repudiation, Lawrence absented himself from the debate over domestic control. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

The wagon driver wore a gray uniform similar to the ones worn by the guards at the gate but absent any sash or decoration. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Within six months the streets became strangely absent of women because they were afraid to go out to do their shopping. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Somehow we got on to the idea of making a toast to our absent wives. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even absent the stifling heat of the previous year, the accommodations were decidedly uncomfortable. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“No, thank you, Gregor. We will be discussing battle position for our forces, not the efforts of the quest. We shall not be absent long,” said Vikus. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He did not let anyone know of the trip beforehand, but on leaving he tacked a note to his door saying that he would be absent for several days because of business. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The later pages hold the names of the original conspirators, though one name is conspicuously absent, and another has been removed. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Just keeping them in food and clothing, chasing them down when they were late or absent—all of it was exhausting and occasionally disheartening. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

That kind of intensive scheduling was almost entirely absent from the lives of the poor children. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The County Council of Defense members were noticeably absent, but otherwise nearly everyone came by to lend a hand or a word of advice. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

After all, in the very casualness of Gatsby's party there were romantic possibilities totally absent from her world. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

August was absent the day after Halloween, and when he came back, I could tell something was up with him. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Again, strangely enough, fear was absent from my sensations. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, you were once again absent while the rest of us ran dangers, were you not, Snape?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Then I notice Portia is absent and get a bad feeling. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

At times he even sat upon the Iron Throne to dis-pense king's justice, when the king was absent, or sick, or otherwise indisposed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“She knows the lawyer is absent and her cause cannot be proved. The sooner I’m rid of her, the better.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was well known that absent students were punished with higher tuitions the following term. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In contrast, the wild ancestors of most Southwest Asian crops and animals were absent from western Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His manner was unexpectedly civil from all accounts, absent his standard sardonic remarks. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Though that was what it seemed like—signs of the ball of furious fire nowhere to be seen, the slanting shadows of morning absent. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She remained like that all day, mute, absent, alone in the midst of us. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found much evidence of baboons, although they were absent at the moment. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is a reminder that when your child is going to be absent from high school, a call is required by nine a.m. . . .” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Presently he took them off and dropped them on my bureau with an absent clatter. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Intelligence did not figure largely in anything he did and was often conspicuously absent. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Tuesday, Annette was absent, so I was the only one in our van on the way to the high school. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the last day before spring break and he had been absent from school and after-school all week. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

At least ten kids were absent from science—so many kids that we had to waste our time with worksheets. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

While 157 species sounds like indiscriminate collecting, many more species growing wild in the vicinity were absent from the charred remains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He turned and absented himself from the chamber, his body betraying signs of considerable inward turmoil of spirits in his irregularity of movement. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her father raised his head and looked at her with the usual absent expression he wore when she interrupted his reading. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Aside from making one extended trip back to Hawaii when Barack was ten, his father—a man who by all accounts had both a powerful mind and a powerful drinking problem—remained absent and unengaged. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Astrology, which has flourished from the days of ancient Babylon down to today, is completely absent from classical Greece. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But others had chosen to absent themselves to show their disapproval. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Second, accompanied by a K.B.I. agent, Mrs. Helm had explored every room at River Valley Farm, toured the house in the expectation that she might notice something awry or absent, and she had. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Vexed and annoyed, I cried out to the absent Hamlet, “You are a knave indeed to abuse me so with your lies and promises! You are not worthy of my love!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Her face looked absent, as if she were slowly going mad. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Nothing was absent, not even the painful retching of Ivory Christian. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only person I seemed to have anything in common with was the absent Rudolf Brodermann Elmenhurst, the third, who also had an odd name and who was out of it because he wasn't there. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

For all his smartness with politics and music, Mr. Burke was inclined to be absent- minded. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

Cora heard her going about her duties, sighing to herself and muttering invectives toward her absent employers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Landscape gardening was no more than a bohemian fantasy, as well as a lame ambition—so he had analyzed it with the help of Freud—to replace or surpass his absent father. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Almost rigid with determination, she does my hair and nails and makeup, fingers flying swiftly to compensate for her absent teammates. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Among them all, Vetch being absent, he had no friend, and never knew he wanted one. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to see him fail out of summer school because he’s avoiding me. He’ll get left behind if he’s absent three times.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

A lot of kids were absent from first period. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although there may be some truth in both hypotheses, this sort of posthumous off-the-rack psychoanalysis is a dubious, highly speculative enterprise that inevitably demeans and trivializes the absent analysand. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the supper, Gramps noticed that his father and two of his brothers were absent. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He’s told us, for example, that if someone is absent it’s up to the rest of us to get on her case, because we’re the ones who’ll suffer if our teams are shorthanded. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dead were not yet present, the absent were presumed alive. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It was clear now that, absent an unforeseen disaster, somebody was about to set a new varsity record as well. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There seemed to be plenty of unemployed nonunion carpenters willing to step in for the absent strikers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The colors corresponding to these wavelengths are absent from the reflected light, which therefore appears to be colored. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had never even occurred to me that such giant doors could exist, could be so common in one part of the world and totally absent in another. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Except for Stargirl jabbering in my ear, the usual raucous chatter was absent. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

“And then she gives me kisses from the absent ones. That’s my mother and my father and my grandfather. I get four kisses.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Arwyl would notice if I was absent, and he was not forgiving of such things. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“As you probably know,” I said slowly, “Ashley Kent has been absent.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“You sound like our mothers. But tell that to Rashad’s family. Rashad’s absent today. Again. I mean, I know that guy too.” All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Lincoln absent- mindedly said he would take care of it. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Tino and Theresa were both absent from school, so I didn’t have to face them. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like Jimmy Cross, the boy was explaining things to an absent judge. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

No member of my family and none of the family friends ever mentioned the absent Japanese. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some explained that they had absent or addicted parents; a couple had spent time in juvenile detention centers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Esteban had been absent for days, and when he finally returned, Ms. Laverne asked him if he was up to doing some work and he nodded. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then I started thinking about the bills and about what I would see the next day at the hospital and about the schoolwork I would miss by being absent. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first we didn't talk much, just simple stuff about class, and I apologized for not being around, for being an absent partner. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

She means, of course, out in the patio or even—since the dull, absent look on Fifi's face implies more—before. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The boss continued his watchfulness for a few days, then began to observe me from across the street; finally he absented himself for long intervals. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she had piqued his interest, in a way he says likely wouldn’t have happened, absent her intervention. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Notably absent was Fornatee; when the other boys had called him, he had explained that he wanted to play for the Under Fifteens if Luma gave the team another chance. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

I was relieved that I had the desk to myself, that Edward was absent. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Reshevsky nervously paced the stage, once again waiting for the absent Bobby to arrive, this time to play the disputed thirteenth game. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, absent from Papin’s design was a simple device employed by Savery: the use of a spray of water over the cylinder to cool it in order to speed the condensation of the steam. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

She had been absent from our lives far longer than the twelve days we’d been gone, and I was thankful for the comfort of her love. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The sense of exhilaration that usually seemed to possess Edward as he ran was completely absent, replaced by a fury that consumed him and drove him still faster. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

We believed its paths to be deserted, for the king was absent on a journey. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Marshall was furious with the absent Stuart, was ready to draw up court-martial papers. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron, meanwhile, was absent- mindedly shredding the shamrocks on his hat. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I enlarged the image and did a double take, rashad is absent again today is what it said, spray painted in bright-blue loopy letters. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As they approached the farm Squealer, who had unaccountably been absent during the fighting, came skipping towards them, whisking his tail and beaming with satisfaction. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

As I read aloud it seemed that the poet, longing for his absent love, exactly summed up my own sorrows. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I promised to read the typescript novel of someone’s absent son. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Such was the foolish logic of this program of social reform: Because many Hispanics were absent from higher education, I became with my matriculation an exception, a numerical minority. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was no guardedness, no defensive wall, no spacey/absent look. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

We two black boys, each working for ten dollars a week, stood staring at each other, thinking, comparing the motives of the absent white man, each asking himself if he could believe the other. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I had not known why he was absent, I had been glad that he was not there to shout his restrictions at me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both pleaded for their absent spouses— "Emergency operation," "My wife doesn't even speak English"— to no avail. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, for the first couple of days, nobody was surprised Cap was absent from school. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Here I first sensed the vitality of English intellectual life, so completely absent during my initial days in my Victorian room several hundred yards away on Jesus Green. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The absent witnesses—proverb and commonplace, custom and authority—are not to be underestimated. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

On Monday, the eve of the biggest day in my life, my mother went to the principal and told him that I would be absent from school the next day. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth did not quit her room for a moment, nor were the other ladies often absent; the gentlemen being out, they had in fact nothing to do elsewhere. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Annabelle’s hair has grown out some, but her eyes look absent and hollowed out. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Last year, when Edna got the flu and was absent for a week, I thought there was some hope to break the spell. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Here she let me slide on half the problems for all the days I was absent—why can’t I show more effort? The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Not absent from the place, the arbitrary square of earth which he had named Sutpen’s Hundred: not that at all. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

But some of the white men pried into my packages when I was absent and they questioned me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both Gogol and Moushumi are absent from these books, and for the first time all evening he feels a hint of that odd bond that had first drawn them together. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There has also been a frequent reverse problem, of devising letters to represent “new” sounds present in the borrowing language but absent in the lending language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The nature of this quarrel was hopelessly confused in his mind—but each of them had on several occasions broken out into a bitter tirade against the other, the absent one. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

For years, the chemist harbored a bitter resentment of Lawrence, who had plainly dumped the task of firing him in Cooksey’s lap and absented himself from the Rad Lab while the deed was done. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

All through my shift at the grocery store I was absent- minded. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

But she seems absent, asking how Marie-Laure and Etienne are doing with perfect courtesy, saying good morning as if they are strangers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was Martin’s turn to absent himself while Ethel assumed responsibility for their guest, nursing Cora through two days of fever and convulsions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Rigid and absent, naked and trembling with disgust and cold, Alba neither heard nor felt him, but that crack in his eagerness to torture her sounded an alarm in the colonel’s mind. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Time and again she made successful visits to Maryland on the Underground Rail Road, and would be absent for weeks at a time, running daily risks while making preparations for herself and passengers. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Odysseus will not be absent from his family long: he is already near, carrying in him a bloody doom for all these men, and sorrow for many more on our high seamark, Ithaka. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kin had been absent from the village as well, so she couldn’t even ask him. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

With these thoughts in her mind, she was delighted to find one day that Poseidon was absent from the gathering in Olympus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, more than that: he was absent, and he was; he returned, and he was not; three women put something into the earth and covered it, and he had never been. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My friend and companion,” said I, rising from the sofa, “is absent; you must have his room.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Better a dead father than an absent one,” Blanca enigmatically replied, and she never mentioned it again. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A life is present or absent, and it is an instant passed between those extremities. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He’s sleeping on the near side, leaving space for the absent Marlena. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

For Archimedes, while he was talking, was absent- mindedly spying for his dinner. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flush spread up to her face, and when she opened her eyes there was a clarity in them that had been absent before. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Impossible to miss when he was around and impossible not to miss when he was absent. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

Clients huddled restlessly at the base of the rock for nearly an hour while Beidleman—taking over the duties of an absent Lopsang—laboriously ran the rope out. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Joon Park was not in school again today. He has been absent or tardy sixteen times this semester,” she says. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“You were absent. I wanted to give you back your paper,” Mr. Nolan says as he hands me a folder with my name on it. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was Thursday and Esteban had been absent the whole week. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Somewhere deep inside her she must have harbored resentment and anger for a father who was absent during her childhood and adolescence. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mournful hush fell over the barn, broken only by the long, low moans of a saddle pony who missed his absent stable companion. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the connections had never been broken, she now saw, and anyway her parents were absent in their different ways, Briony was lost to her fantasies and Leon was in town. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I ran, bleary-eyed and blind, searching the night for my absent sister and the boy with the missing eye, but I couldn’t find them. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The great thing about a three-way friendship is if someone is absent, you still have a friend to sit with at lunch. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Also absent was Compton, who was away on a summertime jaunt to South America. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But the foods to fuel that spectacular rise were originally absent in Egypt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

And the tension he had expected, the weight of memory and regret that would come with seeing Olanna again in her presence, were absent. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The normal hum from the fluorescent lights that illuminate the pathways between buildings is absent. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Finding out that it wasn’t, that in fact the last entries were dated, she kept count of the number of days I was absenting myself from school. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

After she hung up on him at two a.m., after she’s gone 100 percent No Contact, he was absent for three days, and she’s almost surprised to see him. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He waved them back and forth for the other masters to see, nodding his head from side to side in an absent, childish way. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I shiver at the memory of his expression, of those vicious, dark eyes, absent of any hint of the playful, polite, charismatic version of himself that I thought I knew. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

My father was absent as much as possible. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

She's getting notes from my teachers and the counseling office, because two weeks is a long time to be absent from a high-powered private prep school. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two afternoons in the late fall when Judith was absent, returning at supper time serene and calm. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Conspicuously absent from this list was the NAACP, the country’s dominant civil rights organization since 1909, but still dedicated to the slower tactic of filing legal challenges to segregation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Root, absent, was to return that day from Atlanta. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Even Vivi is drawn to run her fingers over the cloth, an absent smile on her face. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Poppy seeds are absent from excavated sites of the earliest farming communities in eastern Europe and Southwest Asia; they first appear in early farming sites in western Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So who does? And don't say my father, because he’s a little absent these days.” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ella is absent because she has eloped, taking our cook, with her. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The precinct’s Yiddish-speaking detective was absent, so I spoke in halting English, question after question flung at me like pummeling fists. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I came back to school from my own little “three-week vacation” when Ms. Gruwell asked me, “Why have you been absent so much?” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

With Fischer absent, the Sherpas were disinclined to do what Hunt asked of them. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Balding and pudgy, he’s been teaching at the school for over twenty years, and kids say he’s never been absent—not even once. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

That was when she realized that all the sounds she normally associated with a city—the noise of wagon wheels and beggars and merchants hawking their wares—were absent here. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even absent the marathon, it was Megan’s habit to stay up late, often playing video games, and then sleep late. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

The others had offered him the use of Percy’s cabin, since Percy was...well, absent. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I do as Izzie asks, but it makes me even sadder to think I am now a ghost, an absent girl, nothing but a brown bag with a name on it. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

And then, the woman begins to shift her consciousness from the dead father to the absent son, her husband. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She admired, too, the charm with which he managed each transaction and how he won the business even of elderly customers loyal to the absent Mrs. Holton. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I say this frequently, while I’m boiling diapers in the kitchen house and having my imaginary arguments with an absent Rachel. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seizing a coat lapel in either hand, to make himself look like a professor, Stuart began: “Anybody absent?” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

Because the old mosquito—and with it the disease—had been absent so long, hardly anyone had built up an immunity to yellow fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

In erecting this high standard, the Court knew full well that the standard could not be met absent an admission that a prosecutor or judge acted because of racial bias. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Stopping at a traffic light, listening to the weather report on the radio, the thought of death absent from his mind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

By contrast, the pain suggested by dissonance - the clashing of adjacent notes - is almost entirely absent from music written between 1750 and 1800. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She was never late or absent and she asked nothing more than to pass at least two of her courses. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sounds of Papá’s coughing, the rattle of his aspirin bottle, and the rolling of Mamá’s twelve-inch lead pipe as she pressed dough to make tortillas were absent. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Researchers, absent the urgent need to know why radar operators fell asleep, started a new generation of more formal, deliberate experiments, trying to measure the capabilities of the human mind. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She just stood in the driveway, between the creature and her family, her best friend absent in her hand. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

So, they don’t make silk in Detroit? she triumphantly asked her absent husband. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was conspicuously absent from the dinner at the mayor’s house, although the rest of his family came. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bridget excuses herself to use the bathroom and when she emerges her wedding ring is absent from her finger. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

As it turns out, Miss Gordon is absent today, so the first inclusion class I’m set to attend is Mr. Dimming’s. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Thus, when I got home, the banners, flags, and tumbling cheerleaders that should have been lining the curb to celebrate my return were notably absent. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other four were there, but he was absent. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The queen herself was absent, as was her daughter. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They come in pairs eight years apart, but then are absent for a century or more, and there were none in Halley’s lifetime.* A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The only absent demigod was Piper, who was taking her turn at the helm with Coach Hedge, their satyr chaperone. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

For the first time the material was written not just by Mr. Casablancas, who was absent by design, but by all the members. Music: Different Strokes 2011-03-09T17:40:59Z

The best network comedy, Parks and Recreation, is also absent. The 2012 Emmy Awards: My Not-Predictions 2012-09-21T12:00:59Z

In the new show, Cranston and Paul, whose respective portrayals of Walter White and junkie wingman Jesse Pinkman were at the heart of "Breaking Bad," are absent — at least for now. 'Better Call Saul' creators breaking a sweat about their 'Bad' fans 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Instead of garish new signs, though, Mr. Andersen reserves his camera and intermittently audible dry wit for weather-beaten, tattered billboard ads in which the original images are absent or hardly recognizable. Critic?s Notebook: Now Showing, the Edge: A Festival?s Calling Card 2010-09-30T21:43:00Z

They imbued their characters and stories with a heavy dose of noir-ish cynicism and psychological complexity absent from the original oaters of the silent and early sound era. Shattered Glass: why we need to stop deconstructing our superheroes 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

Learning aids, like textbooks or supertitles to help keep us focused, are absent: only Mandarin spoken here. Theater Review: ‘C’est du Chinois,’ at Under the Radar Festival 2013-01-11T23:42:25Z

In her pictures, even the present are absent. In the galleries: Where did all the humans go? 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z

Anna Maria Murphy's text simultaneously expands on and simplifies García Márquez's story, bringing in new characters and giving it a moral tone absent from the original. Fuerzabruta; A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings – review 2013-01-06T00:08:13Z

Our not so absent, not so invisible, friend. David Bowie Is: read Tilda Swinton's speech at V&A exhibition launch 2013-03-22T11:53:00Z

It lacked the human bottlenecks that plague Lollapalooza in Grant Park, and corporate signage was conspicuously absent. Concert review: Riot Fest at Humboldt Park 2012-09-17T05:46:00Z

When nominations for this year’s Emmy Awards were announced in late July, CW’s “Jane the Virgin,” one of the most warmly received shows of the 2014-15 TV season, was nearly absent. ‘Jane the Virgin’ Narrator on His Role and His Emmy Nomination 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

Eddie Murphy, who one evening prior received a lifetime achievement award at the Critics’ Choice Awards, was noticeably absent from the best actor nominations. Oscars still so white? Only one actor of color was nominated by the Academy in 2020 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z

Some genes in today's horses were absent altogether from the ancient ones, showing they arose from recent mutations. Ancient DNA reveals history of horse domestication 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

“If nostalgia is a sixth and often fogging sense, it is absent in a book that feels manifestly present, clear and alive even while describing the past.” Times Critics’ Top Books of 2021 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z

But his name has been conspicuously absent from the discussion of likely nominees, with many assuming veteran directors Ridley Scott or Quentin Tarantino would land a nod instead. The 10 Biggest Oscar Nomination Surprises 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Mostly absent of their owners, the images nonetheless speak to their work, their tastes, their personal lives. E. Brady Robinson’s ‘Art Desks’ takes viewers on intimate tour of art world

On “Origami Harvest,” his scorching and emphatic new album, the trumpet is often absent altogether. Ambrose Akinmusire’s Trumpet Takes a Back Seat to His Pen on ‘Origami Harvest’ 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z

But virtually absent is any true talk of spirituality, of what role it plays in their lives. ‘The Religion Thing,’ From Project Y, at Cell Theater 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Marshall was an unabashed throwback to the family-oriented comedies of television’s first generation of the 1950s and ’60s, when laughs were paramount and social consciousness was absent. Garry Marshall, creator of TV’s ‘Happy Days,’ director of ‘Pretty Woman,’ dies 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

While Coppola and Carol director Todd Haynes will be there to represent the more avant garde side of American film-making, those splashier, more commercial films that often edge into the Cannes programme will be absent. As Cannes turns 70, must cinema adapt to survive in new digital era? 2017-05-13T04:00:00Z

The students, all Black and stuck on the Friday before the Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, bicker, gossip and wonder where their conspicuously absent detention teacher is; they can’t leave, after all, without his permission. Onstage, Paradise for Black Characters Often Comes With a Price 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

It’s an underrated dimension in fashion of late, though not entirely absent. Rihanna and the Fashion X Games 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z

That meant being virtually absent from the National Gallery of Art. Is it better for the Obamas to support or be visible on the D.C. arts scene? 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

Many hosts were rarely around or completely absent. A Crash Course in Airbnb 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z

And whether for aesthetic or moral reasons, social media are entirely absent from this book’s timeline. Walter Isaacson’s ‘The Innovators’ Studies Computer Wizards 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

The Death of Bees was a black comedy about lost innocence in which parents were notably absent – indeed, they were buried in shallow graves at the bottom of the garden. Closed Doors by Lisa O'Donnell – review 2013-07-20T10:31:00Z

The one feature that will be absent almost everywhere is tablecloths. In Fall’s Biggest Openings, Experience Is on the Menu 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z

There’s a romantic streak mostly absent from his comedy. Steven Wright, Master of the One-Liner, Tries His Hand at a Novel 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

Moore’s role, as that of Griffith’s manipulative and sometimes absent mother, is hardly the only one to be subjected to extensive revisions. ‘Hey, Mr. Living Composer’: ‘Champion’ Takes Shape at the Met 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z

Around the world, especially where government management is either inadequate or absent, wild animals are vulnerable to operators eager to push the boundaries. TripAdvisor bans ticket sales to attractions that allow contact with wild animals 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Humor in the later stories, while seldom entirely absent, is slyer and quicker. William Trevor, Spare Chronicler of Diminished Lives 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

His usual camp and outrageousness is also absent. The People v OJ Simpson: Ryan Murphy delivers a real American horror story 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

For an absent father, Arul caused a lot of grief, I say. MIA: 'I'm here for the people' 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

But these developments in Solange’s personal life are mostly absent from “A Seat at the Table.” Solange Knowles’s Album of Black Life in America 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z

"Negro Barber Shop Interior, Atlanta, 1936" is absent of customers, leaving the viewer to wonder who might be about to enter the shop or to contemplate the still life of the barber's chairs and accoutrements. Walker Evans' Depression-era photos revisited in New York exhibit 2013-08-16T19:17:33Z

As a result, the signature martial-jazz thump of Chase’s kit is remarkably absent from a few tracks. What’s the Buzz for Yeah Yeah Yeahs Mosquito 2013-04-18T09:45:32Z

In too many works where concept dominates, however, skill is absent. Two group shows at Seattle Art Museum worth checking out 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

But while his show is running on some Saturdays, an Aug. 21 performance is conspicuously absent from the posted schedule. Bruce Springsteen, Jennifer Hudson Set for Central Park ‘Homecoming’ 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

Its pages are punctuated with recurring editor’s notes that serve as a reminder that the author, who is so palpably present on the page, is absent from the world. Hunting — and Haunted by — a Serial Killer 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

Further showing the pivot away from broadcast toward cable programming, Hugh Laurie of Fox's "House," which concluded its run this year, was noticeably absent from the list of nominees for lead actor in a drama. ArtsBeat: Major Networks Shut Out of Best Drama Category in Emmy Nominations 2012-07-20T14:30:29Z

Taken together, this is a rare moment of visibility for a band that achieved global superstardom but has been notably absent in the digital age. The Internet Swallowed INXS. Can a Movie Rescue Its Legacy? 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z

Except as an interjection, God is also absent from the second monologue, “A Life,” in which Mr. Gyllenhaal plays Abe, another loving husband and recent father. Review: Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge Face Death Onstage 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

And, as we baldies know, "I'm washing my hair" doesn't work forever. was absent for Treasury questions on Tuesday, too. No one expects the austerity inquisition 2013-05-14T16:47:48Z

But this nimble opera signaled a new interest in dramatic thrust, which had been intentionally absent from long, reflective works like “Einstein,” “Satyagraha” and “Akhnaten.” The Best of Philip Glass’s (Many) Operas After ‘Akhnaten’ 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

Noticeably absent from the rooms dedicated to Lee are any actual artifacts of her life in Monroeville. My Harper Lee pilgrimage: Visiting Monroeville, in search of “Mockingbird’s” essence 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z

Gunther’s photographs do not capture outright violence—even in the Rodney King shot, the police are absent—but they don’t deny it, either. Photographing Newark 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

I began to resent his absence, because even though he is not emotionally absent, he neglects our finances and places a great burden on me. My man’s band mates hit on me 2012-07-30T00:00:00Z

The most awkward part of a wedding is usually the intersection of two families, a feeling that should have been largely absent from Gert and Bill’s. Trying to Keep Up With Grandma’s Love Life 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

Bill and Frank originated in the video game, although players only get to know one of them; Frank is only mentioned in passing as Bill's absent "partner." In "The Last of Us," Nick Offerman and Murray Bartlett battle loneliness at the end of the world 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z

Like its director, it's a low-key movie, audacious in its concept and ambitions, but absent the kind of flamboyant filmmaking that coursed through "Birdman," the movie that went on to win best picture on Sunday. Oscars 2015: 'Boyhood' undone by its outsized Oscar campaign 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

The early arches represented the miners’ longing for light that was absent from their workdays. Christmas market matchmaking: Where to find that perfect German gift 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

You will find the statue almost or entirely absent. Perspective | Maybe it’s time to admit that the Statue of Liberty has never quite measured up 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, absent pressure from consumers, progress on issues of planet, workers and livestock may be slow. The surprising truth about the ‘food movement’ 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z

Due to ponderous music rights conflicts — Murphy’s Motown addiction is an endearing trait, but costly — only one season was made available on DVD, and the show’s been nearly absent from syndication. “Murphy Brown” returns revived, but not refreshed 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

The dancer will be absent from the stage, but the dancer’s spirit and sensibility might spread across it. What They Really Want to Do Is Choreograph … 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z

In Jerome Robbins’s “Moves,” such help was absent. Review: In Juilliard Dances Repertory, the Past Is a Path 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Some of her memories exist only in fragments, “highly specific and yet absent of context.” When the Past Can’t Be Buried: Debut Novels Dredge Up Old Ties 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z

Also noticeably absent was any mention of a controversial seismic strategy, known as base isolation, that would require major excavation around and below the Castle. Smithsonian’s $2 billion plan for area around Castle meets more resistance 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

Not for reasons of ego, but to show us really how it is to write a biography, and not to present the biographer as absent. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: The Art of Writing Biographies 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z

The Hollywood obsession with machismo and violence, which touches “May Allah Bless France!,” is mostly absent in the series. César Winners Fill Roster at Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

The impact of a multi-film character arc is more pronounced in something like the Before Sunrise trilogy, but it’s not absent from the Bourne films. Why we should learn to stop worrying and love the blockbuster franchise 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z

According to the play, Quaere, in Latin, means something missing or absent, and despite Shakespeare’s resistance, Imogen eventually has herself written into the First Folio, which Henry has dedicated himself to preparing. Suspending Disbelief in a Savage ‘Endgame’ 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

Lisa had imagined that she “could shame them for being cold and absent. Now I was the one who was ashamed, for ignoring the simple truth. How obvious it was — they were just cold people!” The Father of Personal Computing Who Was Also a Terrible Dad 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z

I presume that Mr. Neveldine was the funny one of the duo, because absent his input, Mr. Taylor offers up nothing but glitchy editing and bad vibes. Review: Nicolas Cage Goes Homicidally Nuts in ‘Mom and Dad’ 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z

"Is that really just a lot of people dancing to a backing track?" one disgruntled man demands before absenting himself from the room. The Knife – review 2013-05-11T23:05:48Z

Felicity Jones’s awful “I rebel” line is absent. Rogue One: Death Stars, plot holes and a darker side of Star Wars – discuss with spoilers 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z

It’s something like Busby Berkeley, absent the women, in clay. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

Seattle was noticeably absent from the band’s North American tour supporting the new record, but a freebie gig at the iconic 112-year-old market ain’t bad. The Head and the Heart announce free Pike Pike Market concert 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

"The Eight Mountains" is a beautiful, heartbreaking drama of friendship and absent fathers. "Everyone needs to find the best way to live": "Eight Mountains" stars talk friendship and choices 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

Stepfathers need to compensate for the absent biological father. Navigating the tricky waters of being a stepdad 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

These historical events are absent from the book. Sons and Lovers: a century on 2013-05-25T07:00:22Z

The man who is traditionally the festival's biggest star, however, will be absent this year — TCM host Robert Osborne announced last week that he wouldn't be able to attend for medical reasons. TCM festival to kick off with 'Sound of Music' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

Not to the Globes, apparently; it was as absent on the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s list as it was ubiquitous on critics’ best-of-2020 lists. ‘I May Destroy You’ Is Shut Out by Golden Globes 2021-02-03T05:00:00Z

But it’s not that meaning is absent; rather, it is hidden in layers of signification. Cracking the Codes of Leena Krohn 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

As a father and husband he has often been absent, he concedes. David Lynch: ‘You gotta be selfish. It's a terrible thing’ 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z

It’s a haunting and vulnerable refrain, filled with loss and longing and absent the hooks and jaw-dropping rhymes that marked her last full-length LP, Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded. Watch Nicki Minaj Update Alice in Wonderland for Pills N Potions 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

One thing to note is that for the first 100 years of the convention, which was formed in 1845, the culture wars that dominate the conversation today were largely absent. From abortion and porn to women and race: How Southern Baptist Convention resolutions have evolved 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z

The problems with the book occur when Lizzie is absent from its pages. The Passages of Herman Melville by Jay Parini ? review 2011-02-13T00:08:03Z

The resultant paintings are absent — except for the Met’s own “Death of Socrates,” another tale of virtue and renunciation, which is preceded by four drawings. The Dangerous Beauty of Jacques-Louis David 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

Cuiffo makes it clear that this show presents “presentational magic,” not “personal magic” — that is, the staging is more one-sided, absent the transactional element that comes with audience participation. ‘A Simulacrum’ Review: A Magic Show in the Making, and Unmaking 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

But, for whatever reason, the consoling hug or pat of affection was absent. I love you, said my mother – words I’d waited to hear all my life 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

Family members were largely absent at the brief inquest into his death, with only his brother Paul Cable attending. Ex-Stereophonics drummer Stuart Cable choked to death 2010-10-19T17:25:00Z

A few cliches - the hippy new age mum and some vaguely absent parents - offer little by way of explanation or justification for their crimes. Cannes Film Festival 2013 2013-05-16T20:23:54Z

Watching the girls relating to each other, not about men and absent of men, still feels revolutionary. What About the Girls? 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

The elaborate chefiness that characterize several of the recipes in “Plenty More” is entirely absent from Ms. Henry’s book of down-to-earth recipes. Review: ‘Plenty More’ and ‘A Change of Appetite’ 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

Yet the work that the Louvre Abu Dhabi once promised would anchor its collection is conspicuously absent: “Salvator Mundi,” a painting of Jesus Christ attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. A Leonardo Made a $450 Million Splash. Now There’s No Sign of It. 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z

And yet here is a corporate symbol that has mostly been absent from popular entertainment for several decades. Video Game Review: Mickey Moves Onto Yet Another Screen 2010-12-13T16:32:00Z

What matters is that the plays exist, and the author – whether he was a glover's son from Stratford or some better-connected and more fancily educated courtier – is necessarily absent from them. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro | Book review 2010-04-03T23:07:00Z

But year after year, with plaster or concrete or resin, she has stuck to her impressions of interior spaces and household objects, resulting in weighty, silent sculptures evoking absent bodies and past lives. Ghosts of the Past, Embalmed in White Plaster 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

Convincingly motivated human behavior, of which most compelling dramatic art is made, is conspicuously absent from “Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling.” | 'Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling': ?Dreams of Flying Dreams of Falling? at Classic Stage - Review 2011-10-04T02:01:04Z

In it, movement is robust, intricate and ever flowing; transitions seem oddly absent. Dream Logic Mixed With ‘a Catalog of My Interests Back in 1996’ 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z

There is no legal way for the State to surrender its property absent a judicial order, he said, and the government could be sued if it tried. US embassy cables: US embassy in Madrid asks Spain to find creative solutions to Nazi looted art problem 2010-12-08T23:00:00Z

Although absent from the screen, she found success in nightclubs and on records. Lena Horne helped integrate Hollywood 2010-05-10T05:06:00Z

In her early books the mothers were always either dead, mad or absent, she said. Adelaide festival 2013: week one 2013-03-05T12:39:38Z

She hasn't met him, but she attended the inauguration and feels a connection to another dark-skinned child of an absent black father, raised by a white mother. | Halle Berry 2012-10-18T20:21:12Z

Colored lines parallel the inside edges of some shapes, creating a spatial play that is further enhanced by the reintroduction of white, long absent. Harriet Korman: ‘Line or Edge, Line or Color: New Paintings and Drawings’ 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z

Instead, over the course of one day, we watch Knausgaard care for the children and home, his wife mysteriously absent. With ‘Spring,’ Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Latest Project Comes Into Focus 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

Althea’s stunned reaction to the identity of her sister’s date for the wedding finally generates some drama, which is wholly absent from the play’s long opening scene. | 'We Live Here: ?We Live Here? by Zoe Kazan at City Center - Review 2011-10-13T02:01:11Z

In fact, the “Where We Are on TV” report found that transgender characters are absent entirely from primetime broadcast programming. GLAAD Study Finds Racial Diversity Increasing on TV 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

People are noticeably absent from these pages, which typically show the facades and interiors, cluttered with text boxes. How Do You Illustrate Anguish? With Rage or Silence? 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z

The piece was playful and serious; present and absent; material and imaginary; visually bold and intellectually diaphanous. Ellsworth Kelly, the master of the deceptively simple 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z

“When I started the book six years ago, I was so fed up with black British women being absent from British literature,” she said. Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo Share Booker Prize 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

Germany, France and India were represented, but as in the past, films from the United States and South Korea were conspicuously absent. In North Korea, an International Film Festival Where ‘Self-Reliance’ Is the Star 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

But O'Dowd's Of Mice and Men co-star James Franco was conspicuously absent, while Denzel Washington and Michelle Williams were also passed over for their work in A Raisin in the Sun and Cabaret respectively. Rylance gets Tony nomination double 2014-04-29T15:42:35Z

Karen is hypercritical of the school’s teachers, the curriculum, the kids and the other parents, either because they’re absent or overly involved. Can a parent’s liberal values pass the public school test? 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z

It helps that there are affinities between author and subject – a lower-middle-class south London childhood, for instance – that were absent from Lodge's earlier novel about Henry James. A Man of Parts by David Lodge ? review 2011-04-10T02:30:01Z

A spirit of anarchy, however, was noticeably absent. Is Jake Paul a Social Media Genius or a Jerk? 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

“It shows the victims without the perpetrators. The black victims are silent, immobile and fetishized, while the colonialists are absent.” ‘Exhibit B,’ a Work About Human Zoos, Stirs Protests 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

Williams's work is full of responsible mums and absent dads; siblings divided by ambition and achievement; people questioning whether they conform to expectations or accusing others of not doing so. Roy Williams: Confessions of an uncool kid 2010-06-07T20:31:00Z

Screams are conspicuously absent, never mind that the company has just been ambushed in no man’s land. Joker was criticised for ripping off old classics. So why does 1917 get a pass? 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

“It’s the same out here, except everyone is absent,” Scott said. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Fake pearls were conspicuously absent from his account. The Tale of Lupita Nyong'o's Stolen Oscars Dress Deepens 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

Food and drink play an important role in “Our Little Sister,” in particular the freshly caught baby eels that are a local delicacy and a link to the absent father. Review: ‘Our Little Sister,’ or What We Found at Dad’s Funeral 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

But when the parents most capable of doing so are clustered at some schools and conspicuously absent at others, the inequities that already heavily affect lower-income children are effectively institutionalized within the public school system. Motherlode Blog: Amid Million Dollar PTAs, a School Fights to Keep Its Library 2012-06-04T14:36:45Z

His mother was often absent and then disappeared altogether: aged 15, his headmaster called him into his office and informed him that his parents were getting divorced. Oliver Stone 2010-07-17T23:00:00Z

Insecure, solitary, unattractive, Pinch loves his father with a fierceness that veers uncomfortably close to worship, and, post-abandonment, he will spend years trying to impress the absent man. Portrait of the Artist as a Complete Jerk 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

In this debut novel, a young woman living in 1960s and ’70s Bombay navigates a tumultuous relationship with her absent mother and finds refuge in kathak, a centuries-old classical dance form. Newly Published, From the Extraterrestrial to East Jersey State Prison 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z

Conspicuously absent is any mention of some of the more negative chapters during his regime. Book celebrates Levine's 40-year Met Opera career 2011-05-02T10:37:07Z

“It was a relief to play characters that are wrestling with an internal dilemma absent the ability to go on Reddit or Twitter, Instagram or TikTok and figure out where they fit in.” Venice: A Creepy ‘Call Me by Your Name’ Reunion in ‘Bones and All’ 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z

Remarks from his family add little, and in-depth commentary from experts and other grandmasters is almost entirely absent. Review: ‘Magnus’ Delves Into the Life of a ‘Mozart of Chess’ 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Ms. Kawakubo is shy to the point of reclusive, quiet to the point of absent, and indifferent to the celebrities other designers court. At the Met Gala, Paying Homage to Rei Kawakubo 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z

Notably absent from the Deaf Institute’s schedule is a night devoted to Madchester classics. Next Stop: A New Act for Manchester 2011-04-29T19:37:03Z

Spiritually, the director Paul Feig’s version of the city resembles the backdrop to a late-night talk show, full of lights and absent of people. The Gentrified Ghostbusters of 2016 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

Conspicuously absent from the McDonald’s announcement, though, was any commitment to raise their employees’ pay. McDonald’s ends its war against higher salaries, so what does that mean for the minimum wage? 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

It went negative only about the demands of the job, leaving Trump—just as his detractors imagine he will be on the major issues if elected—entirely absent. Convention's Obama Video Seeks to Define 'Presidential' 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

“Thank God I did all those years of theater training and mime,” he said, “because we will be doing a lot of talking to absent actors.” An Australian Soap Opera Returns, With Distance (and No Kissing) 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

The maids who tell Skeeter their stories speak of the risks they are taking, but the sense of physical danger that hovered over the civil rights movement is mostly absent. Arts & Leisure: Black-and-White Struggle Through Hollywood?s Rosy Glow 2011-08-09T13:34:47Z

The Lansdale siblings, Ray and Barbara, survived instability, absent parents and other childhood losses by retreating into a shared utopian fantasy they called “the Long Ago.” Following the Bloodlines 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z

Something similar dawns on you watching Atlanta, another new FX comedy about two cousins trying to make it in the southern entertainment Mecca’s hip-hop scene – except instead of men being absent it is white characters. Better Things and Atlanta: FX delivers fresh new comedy voices 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

They'd become almost as absent as the Beatles, but become the absent leaders of a new scene. 'Catalyst bands': What do you mean, you've never heard of them? 2011-07-21T21:01:01Z

Today, the idea of an artist making a big show about being absent would seem as hammy and performative as an artist making a big show about being present. Perspective | Artists are struggling to find inspiration in isolation 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

Back then, Kyle preferred meeting potential dates on the train, or while volunteering, or any number of places where cute strangers are now either absent or masked-up. Date Lab: ‘He deviated from my normal type’ 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

But for more than half of the series, the nonwhite characters’ stories feel thin and familiar — early pregnancies, absent fathers, the ominous presence of silent young men in hoodies. Review: ‘Show Me a Hero’ Focuses on a Mayor in the Maelstrom of Desegregation 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

Bad Santa is most notable for being directed by Terry Zwigoff, who swore off studio film-making after this and is conspicuously absent from the creative brain trust of this 13-years-later cash grab. Santa, Teacher or Grandpa: which 'bad' movie is the baddest? 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

Texture has been all but absent from his voice since the mid-2000s-era of songs like “When the Stars Go Blue” and “Drugs or Jesus.” New Music: Grace Woodroofe, Tim McGraw, Richard Galliano - Review 2012-01-23T23:00:11Z

Yet except for two singles, “They Don’t Know” is absent from streaming outlets like Spotify, Apple Music and Tidal. Jason Aldean Debuts at No. 1 Following the Adele Model 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z

With the rise of modern psychology, this belief lost its plausibility, and today it is largely absent from academic philosophical and even theological writing. Disney Pixar’s Soul: how the moviemakers took Plato’s view of existence and added a modern twist 2021-02-20T05:00:00Z

Iñárritu masterfully captures this flux state of being "here" but also "not here," being present and absent, visible and invisible at the same time. Surrender to Alejandro Iñárritu's Netflix movie "Bardo," a surreal "chronicle of uncertainties" 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z

There may be little of the Fat Duck’s modernist glee, but wit is not entirely absent from Dinner. Critic?s Notebook: In London, Stalking the New 2011-05-25T04:14:30Z

Nor is the review likely to mention misogyny, a word that is also absent from risk assessment forms. Freed to kill again – and again: Theodore Johnson and the truth about domestic violence 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

In a different twist, chairs will be absent from Ikinari Steak in the East Village, where the goal is to help customers eat a big American-style steak in the shortest possible time. A Wave of Japanese Restaurants With a Twist 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

With shellshocked Tig, the house becomes a halfway home for incomplete adults, absent Caroline, who had been the glue connecting them. Review: Have You Heard the One About the Grieving Daughter? 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Pat is absent from the third section of the book – already lost to the world, not even described for the benefit of readers. Levels of Life by Julian Barnes – review 2013-04-06T13:00:01Z

Reports, but “slacks” is absent, although whether this is because the clerk failed to put it in his draft or because Justice Kennedy took it out we cannot be sure. I made Clarence Thomas laugh 2012-08-18T19:00:00Z

Let’s get back to God, who as I say was notably absent the other night in Quicken Loans Arena. Jeb must slay Trump and devour his soul: The mind-bending Koch master plan behind the GOP clown show 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z

They met Bill Courtney, the team's volunteer coach; a bear of a man still haunted by his absent father, and determined to help his often fatherless athletes succeed. Seattle native TJ Martin heads to Oscars with his documentary 'Undefeated' 2012-02-24T18:01:06Z

When the Oscar nominations were announced Thursday morning, more than a few names we expected to hear—based on Golden Globe wins, awards-season hype or simply just solid performances—were absent from the roster. The 13 Biggest Oscar Nomination Snubs 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

They have a nerve and flexibility absent from museums and commercial galleries. Your Last Chance to See One of New York’s Great Gallery Spaces 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Never exactly absent from the entertainment scene, those eternal bloodsuckers lately have infiltrated everything from big screens and little screens to bookstore shelves, clothing racks, download services, video games and video, record and jewelry stores. Entertainment biz fangful for vampires 2010-08-25T10:34:00Z

Fun is forbidden, colour is absent, hunger is the norm and danger is everywhere. Children's fiction prize book club: Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner 2013-06-28T14:43:33Z

There is a botched abortion and an absent father. Review: In John Irving’s ‘Avenue of Mysteries,’ a Blur of Aphorisms and Magical Events 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

Often absent, he moved out completely to live with a barmaid when his son was eight. This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson – review 2013-05-02T13:00:01Z

Similarly, in the work’s signature image — dancers in a line, slashing their arms in relay to evoke the many limbs of the god Shiva — the timing is off, the god absent. Review: Ballet Vlaanderen Is a Company in Search of Itself 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z

“What was exhausting was the fact that the producers were absent.” ArtsBeat Blog: In Esquire, Taymor Says She Was Unfairly Maligned by U2 Leaders Over 'Spider-Man' Woes 2011-11-15T03:03:08Z

The eminence absent here was James Levine, who missed the performances in Boston and New York because of lower-back problems, soon to be treated surgically. Music Review: Lots of Vocal Firepower for ?Elijah? at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-06T21:30:00Z

But on Sunday, the category switcheroo culminated in an absent winner and a strange empty-stage finale — a fitting end to a thoroughly strange movie year. Explainer: What was with that weird Oscar ending? 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z

These humbler hills also offer a friendliness absent at large resorts owned by publicly traded corporations and insurance conglomerates. 2010-02-06T04:54:00Z

Two people you might expect to hear from in the series are absent. ‘A Wilderness of Error’ Review: Errol Morris in the Fog of Murder 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

I definitely became preoccupied with the idea of absent fathers. ArtsBeat: Jaclyn Moriarty Talks About ‘Cracks in the Kingdom’ 2014-04-29T18:11:10Z

It’s not about being absent, taking forever to do something. Hood by Air Is Back 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

As she tells it, her mother was absent, and her father rigid and tyrannical as he slowly immersed himself in alcohol and gambling. 6 Books for Thinking, Drinking and Changing the World 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

The wines have a freshness that is completely absent in wines from grapes grown the mainstream way,and always very good. The Italian Winemakers’ Cult 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Mahler's 10th Symphony was mysteriously absent from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic's anniversary retrospective in 2010-2011, an omission now effectively – if belatedly – rectified by this formidable, if at times flawed performance, conducted by Vasily Petrenko. RLPO/Petrenko – review 2013-03-24T17:59:19Z

“But absent some truly startling revelation, I don’t believe it will change his overall marketability.” In Family Court, a Reckoning for Gibson?s Erratic Career 2010-11-21T22:33:00Z

It's the perfect place then to bring back much-missed acoustic/folk club night Hedge, absent from the city for over a year now, but bouncing back with one of its strongest lineups to date. Clubs picks of the week 2011-01-15T00:06:03Z

"It felt like it was being talked about so much that it would be conspicuously absent," he says. Athletes can help movies score, and vice versa 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

This season “Ragtime” returned, a decade after the original closed, as did “A View From the Bridge,” last on Broadway 12 years ago, and “Present Laughter” at the Roundabout, absent for 13 years. Play It Again, Broadway, and Again 2010-02-19T00:37:00Z

“King Lear” has also been absent from the series for a while: its last Shakespeare in the Park staging was in 1973. ArtsBeat: Shakespeare in the Park Lineup: ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ and ‘King Lear’ 2014-02-13T19:00:42Z

Palestinian characters are completely absent from this story, even though we hear newscasts coldly announcing their deaths. | 'Pangs of the Messiah': ?Pangs of the Messiah? at 14th Street Y - Review 2011-11-09T22:38:44Z

When the curtain rises again, other signs of Communion are also absent, though a large disc, no doubt of symbolic significance, is lowered to the assembled knights. Opera Review: Wagner, Sleek but Deep 2011-02-08T12:30:06Z

While little is known about the second season of the series, two mainstays of the Daredevil mythos were noticably absent from Season 1. Netflix renews 'Daredevil' for second season 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

“This valuing of what we use daily is so absent in our culture and is represented in Clare’s museum,” Ms. Populoh said. Where Some See Trash, She Sees Treasure 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

The house he sees above the coastguard's is where his parents are still living, celebrating Christmas under the shadow of an absent son. Poem of the week: Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson 2012-12-24T09:00:14Z

Tragedies are rarely absent from the London stage, but some defining theatrical titles don’t always deliver. On London Stages, Finding Something Fresh in Tragedy 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Sinclair, whose prose is famously so eloquent, is here smilingly reticent, and somewhat disconcertingly absents himself before the trip is quite finished – to catch a plane. Swandown – review 2012-07-19T20:30:00Z

Jacques Derrida spoke of a “trace” as the “mark of an absence of a presence, an always-already absent present.” Raptor porn: The ridiculous proliferation of the red-tail call 2013-12-28T00:00:00Z

Notably absent in the early stage was Sam. Are You Strapped In for ‘The Patient’? The Therapist Is. 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

It’s a lovely vehicle for the Mariinsky dancers, notably the corps de ballet, who seemed consistently alive and engaged in a way that was absent in a by-the-numbers performance of “Swan Lake” some nights earlier. A Taste of Russian Dance in London 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z

Still, the show suffered a steep ratings drop and one gambit, to shake up the usual awards order, ended the ceremony awkwardly with an absent best-actor winner in Anthony Hopkins. Steven Soderbergh’s ‘No Sudden Move’ to premiere at Tribeca 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

Zendaya, who plays the troubled teen in “Euphoria,” won best actress in a TV drama series and was also absent from the award show. Several Golden Globe winners were not there to pick up their awards. 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

Conspicuously absent from all this is the Social Realist side of the coin: the drudgery and penury from which so many city dwellers longed to be liberated. Art Review: ?Art for All? at the Yale Center for British Art 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z

Indeed, he found that children with absent fathers, in particular, were prone to opt for immediate rewards. Desire delayed 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Price is an issue, but with mezcal, the economy of scale that governs tequila is absent. With Mezcal, Smoke Is Only Part of the Story 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Religion, business, politics, race, war — just about everything that makes America American — is absent here. Stage Marathon: Is Seven Hours of The Great Gatsby Too Much? 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z

My absent father was said to be cut from the same angular, dark-haired, hypermasculine pattern. My Absent Father 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

By 1930, trapping records and a lack of sightings by biologists suggested that wolverines were almost completely absent from the U.S. Save the wolverines! 2013-02-17T16:00:00Z

Here Washington wears a simple toga and the tablet he will hold is absent. A George Washington Monument, Rediscovered in Fragile Plaster 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z

“One in a Million,” the second album by the R&B singer Aaliyah, who died in 2001 at age 22, has long been absent from the market. Aaliyah’s ‘One in a Million’ Finally Cracks the Billboard Top 10 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

Aunt Amina had been absent from the breakfast table of her father’s home, which was also her brother Abdullah’s and our father’s home for nearly eleven years. “I had never known a man could have two wives”: My Karachi family’s shame 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z

So he's either a bad absent father who doesn't care about his son or if a deeply loving father where everything is rosy. David Oyelowo on fighting the legacy of colonialism and being told to just "shut up, make movies" 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

He says the responsibility to meet the needs of the poor lies first with a husband and a marriage, second with a family if the husband is absent, and third with the church. Trump's Christian right worships power more than they worship God 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

He may be absent, but he looms large over everything, including any potential chaos in town. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: Angels and demons 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Hamdan, in contrast, is completely absent from his own story. | 'The Oath': Laura Poitras?s Documentary on Two Al Qaeda Cases 2010-05-07T00:09:00Z

Absence, I cannot say thou hid'st my light,Not darkened, but for ay sett is my sun;No day sees me, not when night's glass is run;I present, absent am; unseen in sight. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z

Still, absent any unusual circumstances, he said that the music component at a 1 percent royalty rate does seem low. Blue Man Group Is Sued in Royalties Case 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z

As self-confessed martial arts fanboys, they provide a perspective absent from the recent spate of Ultimate Fighting Championship celebrity memoirs. Mixed Martial Arts Books by Matthew Polly and Jim Genia 2011-11-17T00:02:56Z

Gone were laminated checklists and pens for signing an absent guest book. As Galleries Reopen, Two Critics Find Rewards Eclipse the Angst 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

In many cities across the U.S. this year, fireworks displays will be notably absent from July Fourth celebrations. A quieter fourth of July 2012-07-04T13:00:00Z

With a cinematic style that is a study in elegant simplicity, Frontier Blues is a sweet, slightly absurdist snapshot of desperate men, absent women, and waiting for whatever the future may hold. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z

It’s possible to hire a cabin right in the heart of the park for $159 a night, where elk roam free, though Ewoks, disappointingly, are absent. Star Wars-inspired holidays – where to feel the Force 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Amid the Baltimore riots of 2015, he scolded the hosts of the Fox discussion program “The Five” for blaming perpetrators’ actions on absent or indifferent parents. Shepard Smith, the Fox News anchorman who drives the Fox News faithful crazy 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z

Raised in New Jersey and New York City, he described his childhood as “unstable,” with an alcoholic mother and an absent father. William Pope.L Makes Statements From the Fringes 2015-03-18T04:00:00Z

Precious metal was neither absent from nor undesirable in the region of what is modern-day Peru, and it was used in all kinds of glittery ways. When are feathers worth more than gold? 'Kingdoms' exhibition answers with spectacular finds 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

Which is not to say that inspiration was absent. Review: Philharmonic Ties New Threads to a Recent Premiere 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Completely absent from “Journey” is any mention of Jackson’s later status as tabloid fodder, from the allegations of child molestation to the accusations of general weirdness. Review: Michael Jackson, Before He Was King 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

With great emotional acuity, Tebbutt offers a raw insight into grief and the imaginative capacity to conjure loved ones absent through distance or death. A Long Walk Home by Judith Tebbutt – review 2013-07-27T14:00:00Z

So I make no apology for having absented myself from what followed. Money; Lost; Damages 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

When the enigmatically absent work of art involves the embers of ancient controversies or family skeletons, even better. Review | Bibliophiles love the mystery of a missing manuscript. ‘The Lost Book of Adana Moreau’ is just what they’re looking for. 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

Caddy is the novel's absent centre, the focus of all the characters but unreachable and unknowable – like the truth itself, some would say, as Faulkner offers only competing, subjective accounts. Sarah Churchwell: rereading The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 2012-07-20T21:55:05Z

Rutter said that Kennedy Center leaders systematically evaluated every position, absent names, to determine which were indispensable and which could be eliminated. Kennedy Center cuts nearly 30 percent of its administrative staff 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

She imitates her absent mother, who was very adept at crafts. Books of The Times: ?The Land of Decoration? by Grace McCleen 2012-03-21T22:17:22Z

Even when fighting off zombies or dismantling cults, the teen girl protagonists of her novels shoulder immense personal trauma, facing abusive peers, absent or dead parents and — overwhelmingly — sexual violence. Girl Hunter or Girl Hunted? 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z

Something of a wild card will be Jr.. He was absent from Saturday's debate but will be on stage this time. It's closing argument time in Iowa GOP debate 2011-12-15T22:37:00Z

Noticeably absent from this statement are the words "rehab" and "treatment." Why we shouldn't give "Golden Voice" Ted Williams a reality show 2011-02-22T22:46:00Z

What Tristan Prettyman accomplishes on "Cedar + Gold," however, is unusual because she sings from her broken heart with a voice that is absent of anger. Review: Prettyman spins gold from heartache 2012-10-03T15:27:13Z

“Images were first made to conjure up the appearances of something that was absent,” he writes. When John Berger Looked at Death 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z

What I didn’t appreciate until later was the psychological torture — Papa Pilgrim’s ability to use the wrath of God to mold his children’s minds, absent any movies, books, friends or outside influences. ArtsBeat: A Father’s Wrath: Tom Kizzia Talks About ‘Pilgrim’s Wilderness’ 2013-07-24T18:12:36Z

It’s true that energy and sparkle are mostly absent from the original recording. Attend the Tale of ‘Anyone Can Whistle,’ Then and Now 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

And if you look over the rest of McCarthy's oeuvre, Westerns are nowhere to be seen, are in fact completely absent during his early and later career. Cormac McCarthy – the greatest Western writer ever – didn't actually write Westerns 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

Other kinds of Muslim characters are woefully absent across the dial. Can Television Be Fair to Muslims? 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

An absent, idealized older brother is held up as a model of success. Review | Charles Yu’s ‘Interior Chinatown’ brilliantly skewers Hollywood typecasting 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

Any simple-minded sentimentality about immigrants all being in the same boat is entirely absent from “Yellow Negroes” where everybody is potentially somebody else to exploit. A Comic Book Artist Who Makes the Invisible Visible 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z

In “Altstadt Girl,” however, line is completely absent, creating an unsettling, masklike face, while “The Drawing Class” is an unhinged assortment of colored bars and shapes. Tal R: ‘Altstadt Girl’ 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

First and foremost, she said, she plans to get reacquainted with the Chicago art community, from which she's been absent for a decade. MCA appoints Naomi Beckwith its newest curator 2011-04-12T22:34:00Z

Unfortunately, Twain's usual keen satire is mostly absent. Artist thinks he's better off (playing) dead in Twain comedy 2012-09-21T20:28:03Z

Triumphalism is almost entirely absent from Wiener’s tour of Cold War monuments; he is assailed, rather, by stories of waste and failure at every turn. America’s forgotten war 2012-11-23T15:00:00Z

My father was often absent, and my mother’s attention was taken up by my adopted younger sister, who had severe behavioural problems. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z

She saw his hands reaching for her in desperation and denial, only to confirm that his wife was, in fact, absent from her body. I Met My Husband on the Maternity Ward 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

Women were almost entirely absent in the Senate at the time. Still Thinking About Anita Hill 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

The kitchen islands I stupidly took for granted in my youth were conspicuously absent. How to cook big meals when you're low on kitchen space 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the couple were criticized: John for being absent, and Gisele for — according to detractors — not being more forthcoming about his condition. Gisele Fetterman, forging on through her husband’s heated Senate race 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

By the end of the novel, the mystery of David Sparsholt hasn’t quite been solved, but it has served its purpose — as the absent center of a beautiful and complex design. Scandal Puts a Gay Father in Prison. What of His Gay Son, a Generation Later? 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z

On Wednesday, immediately following Strahan and ABC’s announcement that the former New York Giant would be departing Live! to appear full-time on Good Morning America, Ripa was unexpectedly absent. Michael Strahan's Departure Has Made Kelly Ripa's Live! the Next Daytime Soap 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

These absent loved ones must be acknowledged even as we try to carry on. Good Wines Won’t Fix Thanksgiving, but They Couldn’t Hurt 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

Reba Sr, 53, wanted the girls to know that this is a real home and a real family – even if the middle generation, the girls’ parents, is absent. Parents again: the growing number of Americans raising their grandkids 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z

What I learn from teaching Richard about intimacy is that I only think him to be absent. My husband had to learn sex again, and I had to become one tenacious bitch 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

On 2 June, designated #blackouttuesday by the music industry, Lynch was absent from the frame, leaving us with 28 seconds of silence and an empty chair. What I'm really watching: David Lynch's YouTube channel 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z

The flattering camera angles, cosmetic lighting and, above all, the careful editing are absent. A Beginner’s Guide to the Golden Age of Live Theater on TV 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z

Verbal dexterity was utterly absent from the third production I caught. Critic?s Notebook: Madoff, Macbeth and Other Crooks, Onstage in Washington 2011-09-28T22:45:26Z

What is absent from “This Is Country Music” is a big risk, like the one Mr. Paisley took with “Welcome to the Future,” the arena rock-style anthem that celebrated Barack Obama’s election. Arts & Leisure: Brad Paisley?s Country Underground 2011-05-14T04:00:07Z

This shape is harder to see, and forgetfulness fills the erased and absent spaces. Revisiting Ben Vereen’s Misunderstood Blackface Inaugural Performance 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Missing Motherhood For much of this season, Virginia’s two adorable children, Tessa and Henry, have been absent, as has her role in nurturing them. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Some Ties That Bind 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z

A decade later, local residents backed a zoning that allowed a similar-size development, inhibiting anything taller absent city permission. A Billion-Dollar Battle Over a Parking Lot at the Seaport 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z

Although he will be absent from upcoming shows for the time being, we very much look forward to his healthy return. Bon Jovi to tour while guitarist in rehab 2011-04-28T23:47:49Z

Now is the time to stop suggesting that sexism was absent in the election because white women did not overwhelmingly vote for Clinton. Now Is the Time to Talk About What We Are Actually Talking About 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an unavoidable and in some respects easy subject for liberal-minded artists and writers, is largely absent from “The Kindergarten Teacher,” as it was from his previous feature, “Policeman.” Review: From Israel, ‘The Kindergarten Teacher,’ a Drama About Poetry and Obsession 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

Absent, I want all what I care to see,Present, I see my cares avail me not:Present not hearkened to, absent forgot. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z

“Mirek told me I was looking through him, past him, but not at him. And I was absent, like —” She turned to him. She made a career out of studying the brain. Then hers veered off course. 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z

Therefore, Lewis' employment as a dog-walker is absolutely relevant because it was that job that was the basis of her relationship with Foner, absent which he never would have learned of her discovery. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z

With that context all but absent from the minds of today’s viewers, it’s up to us to conform—or stand out. Pee-wee Herman Is Back and He Hasn't Aged a Day 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Alicia Canter for the Guardian The Australian Robin Fox is as much an audiovisual artist as he is a musician, and absented himself from the stage, as far as I could see. Unsound Adelaide: Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin; Robin Fox; Raime; Trinity 2013-03-15T04:57:00Z

When Millet introduces a plot twist the size of the Atlantic only two pages before the novel’s end, completely absent any foreshadowing, our response may be just a disappointed shrug. Book review: ‘Mermaids in Paradise,’ by Lydia Millet

That is what happened when Rihanna was absent from the Met Gala for a single year: A monument to missing her was commissioned. Rihanna: Since She’s Been Gone 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

The pictures depict a building that looks as absent as it is present, floating above terrain as empty as the gaps between the slats. Review | In the galleries: ‘Archiving Eden’ exhibition sprouts interest with macro photos 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

What’s notable about Chief Keef and much of the Chicago music scene that he’s come to symbolize —  known locally as drill music — is how those elements are all but absent. Chicago Hip-Hop’s Raw Burst of Change 2012-10-07T04:49:05Z

Last week we saw Rae uncover the truth about the postcards she had been receiving from her absent dad; in fact composed by her mum, complete with inspirational quotes. Have you been watching … My Mad Fat Diary? 2013-02-08T12:33:34Z

There is a little more strain when, alluding to the school-shooting at Newtown, he refers to "the impossible vocabulary of sorrow that won't explain/ the empty desks of children marked absent/ today, and forever". Inaugural poem for Obama is a valiant flop 2013-01-22T16:29:35Z

The void at the centre of the book is Darwin, who is never ventriloquised: he is as present, and as absent, as God. Mr Darwin's Gardener – review 2013-06-25T10:29:10Z

Object, image, text — the particularity of the chair's missing sitter, which is the subject on which traditional art might focus, is wholly absent from these three different orders of reality. Hammer's 'Gridwork' plots Charles Gaines' captivating process 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z

The show was postponed, after the writers said they needed more time and was conspicuously absent from the Alliance’s next two seasons. Stephen King and John Mellencamp?s ?Ghost Brothers? Musical 2012-04-01T04:17:15Z

When the loss of life in the Muslim world is reported, there is a cold calculus to the stories absent from coverage of lives lost in the west. Why is it so threatening to say Muslim lives matter? 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

In this evocative scene, nature and mankind are both visible and hauntingly absent. Review | In the galleries: With two group exhibits, maximum exposure for photographers 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Though intended to be taken ironically, the restriction in this show is a crucial one: Saatchi doesn't collect video, which means some of the most dynamic work to emerge in recent years is absent. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-05-28T23:06:00Z

Add an overall sensibility that its creators acknowledge is earnest, unironic and absent of cynicism, and it becomes even harder for them to gauge whether “Bright Star” is going to burn brilliantly or fade away. Steve Martin and Edie Brickell on the Hard Work Behind ‘Bright Star’ on Broadway 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

Both eccentrically individual and universal, these songs evoke the original, piquant talent of a composer whose singular style otherwise feels strangely absent. Review: ‘A New Brain’ Gambols Tunefully Through a Vale of Death 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

The performers, including one — Houston — who died in 2012, present to an absent, past or future audience as much as to the present viewer. E. Jane Signals a Vibe Shift in What ‘Performance’ Means 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z

It is virtually absent from the display of the Hopkins-Custot gallery, now focused on the 20th century. Art: At Maastricht, the Great Art Is Getting Scarce 2011-03-18T13:00:34Z

On the surface the performances are impeccable, but a crucial spark of authentic feeling remains stubbornly absent. Theater Review: ?Blood Knot,? by Athol Fugard, at Signature Theater 2012-02-17T03:00:00Z

The father was absent from the situation, and the mother appeared overwhelmed. Motherlode Blog: 'Sleepovers' With My 9-Year-Old Daughter 2012-10-07T12:00:10Z

One message on the screen read: "It's time to bring good to the hood." Will.i.am performed with the Black Eyed Peas, though Fergie was absent. Will.iam: Obama isn't a 'magic man' 2012-02-10T19:34:08Z

That cinematic energy, however, was absent from Beabadoobee’s sold-out show at D.C.’s 9:30 Club, where she kicked off her North American tour. Review | Beabadoobee needs more fuel for mosh-pit dreams at sold-out D.C. show 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z

I asked my mom about her absent family. Perspective | Ask Amy: Encountering long-lost aunt prompts family questions 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, the most gruesome scenes — what Dr. Gurwitch called “crescendos of horror” — are notably absent in a discrete suite of rooms aimed at children. In Museums About Horrors, Children Learn of the Heroes 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

To call Detroit a shooting set in waiting is disrespectful to the people who still live and struggle here, but its physical aspects are authentically cinematic even absent the current crews, semis and generators. ‘Low Winter Sun’ Gives Detroit a Leading Role 2013-08-02T12:00:19Z

What’s absent from “Together” is an overt reference to New York, the city that’s been the focus of much of your previous work. Milton Glaser’s Unseen Design for New York: ‘Together’ 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

The plus side of the Wild West atmosphere is that all the attributes that weigh down on visitors in Paris are absent in Marseille. T Magazine: France Nouveau 2011-11-17T17:04:21Z

If unifying themes exist they are music, dancing, animals, absent parent, and eating strange substances. Fiction for older children – review 2013-03-30T15:00:02Z

But Ms. Midler’s rapport with the audience, and the feedback loop of joy that it causes, is absent from the recording. Listening to the Best (and Worst) of Broadway 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z

Also absent was another prominent FX series, the two-time nominee “Atlanta.” ‘Yellowstone’ and ‘Reservation Dogs’ Are Among the Emmy Snubs 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z

But now, for the second day in a row he was absent. Anthony Fauci was ready for this. America was not. 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

“Papaoutai,” which moved from a four-on-the-floor club beat to Congolese rumba, addressed absent fathers, wondering where they are and denouncing their irresponsibility. Stromae Is a Voice Out of Belgium 2014-06-22T04:00:00Z

He is anonymous, though the names of his suddenly absent two best friends, Henry and Priscilla, and surroundings of palm trees and pillars suggest he once occupied a world of lush privilege. A Hat Tip to 4 New Picture Books 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

The events are all part of the museum’s focus on aspects of the American story that have been largely absent from its galleries. How a Smithsonian Museum Stopped Being About the ‘Wealthy, Pale and Male’ 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

The darkness in Valentin’s mature painting, by moving contrast, is pervaded with a melancholy absent in Caravaggio, a haze of lost love and the certainty of death. ‘Valentin de Boulogne,’ Bright Star in Caravaggio’s Orbit 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

All the same, artistic producer and director Shanara Gabrielle situates her production squarely in the region of topicality, a dimension absent in previous incarnations, including a Signature Theatre version in 1997. Perspective | Restaged in front of the AFL-CIO’s national headquarters, ‘Working’ the musical labors to be a vehicle for activism 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

Where Ms. Krall usually plays vigorous keyboards on her albums, here her pianism is all but absent. Releases From Bob Dylan and Diana Krall 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Many people simply dream of sex with a loved one, often an absent loved one. I’ll Have What She’s Having: Books for Better Sex and Better Relationships 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

But even that song has some nifty guitar and organ work that would have been absent on his earlier albums. Noah Gundersen shines on his new album ‘White Noise’ 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z

The effect is a kind of disoriented stasis, a tranced attentiveness so complete that the possibility of movement — of being elsewhere — is entirely absent. Andreas Gursky's photos visually articulate the world around us, framing modern society 2015-10-17T04:00:00Z

A spare white structure, long and lean, forms the church, absent the elaborate stone carvings, frescoes and other details that appear in the other missions. San Antonio missions preserve Native American history in Texas' first U.S. World Heritage site 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

On Cape Foulweather, he finds denuded slopes, vanished biodiversity, absent native Alsea people, a slew of invasive plants — not to mention the appearance of a cellphone tower protruding from a mountaintop. Barry Lopez Travels to the Ends of the Earth, Seeking Glimmers of Hope 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z

The critics raved but viewers were notably absent. The year rookie cop series Hill Street Blues hijacked the Emmys 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

But he has been virtually absent from New York’s stages. A Pianist’s Rare Visit to New York Reveals His Personality 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

“Jealous” is offset on “Beyoncé” by songs about ecstatic lust, a topic largely absent on “Lemonade.” Review: Beyoncé Makes ‘Lemonade’ Out of Marital Strife 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Here he remains the illustrious absent author, allowing us to see more clearly the rookie playwriting effort this is. 'The Revisionist' has an uninspired role in need of a rewrite 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

Fathers absent by choice or from circumstances beyond their control. Miseries of a stay-at-home dad 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

Peterson pulled on clown shoes, and the absent mothers of four children slid into the background. TV film throws the book at Drew Peterson 2012-01-16T21:49:00Z

Abraham paints an uneasy, uncertain, wound-tight Shylock who has internalized oppression while failing to absent himself from an irreligious but personally profitable world that measures human worth in pounds of unequal flesh. Abraham makes 'Merchant' a memorable show 2011-03-18T21:06:11Z

Unfortunately, after fishing around in the envelope that contained her mail-in ballot, the sticker was absent. Behind the humble "I Voted" sticker's enduring appeal — and whether you'll get one this year 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z

His parents divorced when he was 6, and his father remained largely absent from his life. Sean Sasser, Was Half of One of TV’s First Gay Couples, Dies at 44 2013-08-11T01:15:04Z

Like Kirk before me, I was too absent from my first marriage. Michael Douglas: ‘Kirk was film star first, father second’ 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

But after the birth of their daughter, Ms. Pravda decided to step back from the businesses, though she still subs for absent staff members and manages the books. Mom and Pop Stores, the Brooklyn Generation 2012-09-26T22:48:37Z

But the problem with the tie-in book of this series is that Hendy's genuine enthusiasm for his subject on the radio is curiously absent. Noise: A Human History of Sound & Listening by David Hendy – review 2013-04-15T14:30:01Z

It has always been asked whether Godot, pronounced “GOD-oh” in Britain, is an absent God, and the tramps banter about the crucifixion. A rock. A road. A tree. How set designers for 20th century’s most famous play change it up. 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Despite de Lavallade’s theatrical credits, theater is mostly absent this year, with no playwrights, actors, directors or designers among the bunch. Perspective | The Kennedy Center Honors abandons the arts for pop culture 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Why are the proposed victim and her boyfriend absent from the story? “Killer Joe”: Matthew McConaughey’s comeback gets creepier 2012-07-26T15:00:00Z

That other Cannes maestro, long absent from the radar, is Elia Suleiman, the Palestinian director who habitually brings his emollient, Keatonesque comic touch to the subject of Israel and the Palestinian people. Cannes film festival 2019: an intriguing lineup, with big-name clout | Peter Bradshaw 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

Women are absent from the newly designed Dance Ink, but Ms. Tarr and Mr. Miller are hoping to redress that next time with an all-female issue, possibly focusing on a ballerina or modern dancer. Sidestepping the Web, Dance Ink Is ‘a Performance in Print’ 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z

Perhaps, together, they were a fitting finale for the ragman’s son, an actor whose boyhood poverty and absent father were never far from his mind. Kirk Douglas, a Star of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Dies at 103 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

We learn that Chad is a textbook rags to riches story -- complete with an absent mother, incarcerated father and doting grandmother. "Dancing with the Stars" recap: Evan shows feeling 2010-05-18T13:20:00Z

The neo-Realist impulse isn’t entirely absent, but mostly we’re in an exaggerated, comic universe, the kind where a special coffin is needed to accommodate a man’s arm, frozen in a fascist salute. The Week Ahead: June 24 — 30 2012-06-26T05:01:01Z

Loudspeakers are left rotating on stage; faces depart from the screens, leaving images of empty roads, waterfalls, fish, fields – a peaceful world in which people are absent. Rachid Ouramdane 2010-05-12T21:45:00Z

The Avenues, the New England mill town neighborhood where Dubus -- a novelist best-known for "The House of Sand and Fog" -- grew up, was a domain of swaggering bullies and weak, negligent or absent authority figures. 2011's best -- so far! 2011-07-04T15:01:00Z

But for a long time, until recently, the madeleine was perceptibly absent from French bakery shelves. Why madeleines are making a comeback in Paris 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Adolescence is hard enough, but how are you supposed to handle trauma in the family when your parents are overwhelmed, absent, overbearing or just plain oblivious? Kids Searching for the Complicated Truth 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

He mellows when his long–absent ex-wife wanders back into his life, seemingly by accident. TV highlights 07/08/2012 2012-08-06T19:00:01Z

There are short solos and duets — several of them same-sex, which isn’t uncommon at City Ballet lately but has been absent ‌or less emphasized in Wheeldon’s other works for the company. Review: City Ballet Holds Steady as an Old Guard Meets the New 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

The film’s comedy rests on the disaster that’s wrought by three poor Black kids with an unnamed father and absent mother and how they are demonized, even criminalized, by those around them. ‘Bébé’s Kids’ Shared a Lesson About Racial Injustice 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z

But normal conditions being absent, Knauf has had to make some adjustments, including wearing an N95 mask in crowded spaces like — most recently — concerts. To go or not to live events? Here’s how some longtime Seattle arts supporters are deciding 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

Film magazine Empire said it was "notable for what it doesn't show", with returning stars Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher all absent from the action. Star Wars trailer inspires spoofs 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

The star, who made her first appearance in 1972, is expected to be absent from the show for three months. Corrie star Kirkbride to take break 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

Freya, thinking of her absent parent, observes, “Some mothers threw parties. Mine threw crises.” ‘High Dive’ review: A bomb is ticking under the prime minister 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Americans have grown accustomed to sensationalism from abortion opponents, but such alarmist language was generally absent from earlier public discussions of the topic. The religious right is neither: The real history of how decades of radical, violent rhetoric led to the Planned Parenthood shooting 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

Here are a few other things notably absent from the video: There were no loud declarations of “Oops!” Why Gourmet Food and a Table Full of Kids Don't Mix 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Carroll’s father, who worked at the Pentagon, was “a typical absent father,” he said. Cultural Studies: Creating Sabbath Peace in a Beeping World 2010-07-16T17:22:00Z

We wanted a week absent the clamor and fuss of texts and emails and replete with nature walks, snorkeling with sea life and beach exploration. On Mexico’s Sea of Cortez, a voyage of discovery 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

Though mentions of contemporary scandals are conspicuously absent, there are centuries’  worth of papal ruthlessness to behold. In Transit Blog: In Rome, Centuries' Worth of Vatican Secret Archives Revealed 2012-02-29T11:00:17Z

Stream it on Netflix, and most of the pop music it included when it originally aired is absent. Why Don’t Some TV Shows Sound the Way They Used To? 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z

That is not to say that improvisation is entirely absent. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Then we have a strange 12-line poem, whose "absent couplet" seems to invoke the absent couple, and symbolise the end of the affair. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

Mann's father was absent and she describes herself as an adolescent as "pent-up and shy". Leslie Mann: 'If I don't have a creative outlet, I implode' – interview 2013-02-16T22:00:02Z

Her young protagonists are ethnically diverse, typically urban, often immigrants and rarely well heeled; fathers may be absent. Vera B. Williams, Who Brought the Working Class to Children’s Books, Dies at 88 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z

Deschanel’s pregnancy will not be incorporated into the show, but it will mean her character Jess will be absent in a few episodes next season. Zooey Deschanel on 'romantic' 'New Girl' finale, saving '(500) Days' site 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z

Mary enjoys an agency and freedom absent from the original story. Season's reading: I Sing of a Maiden 2010-12-21T16:11:01Z

But since the comedy is so eager to take on so many other problems in the industry, mockery of the “woman problem” seems glaringly absent. Silicon Valley Needs to Address the Industry's 'Woman Problem' in Season 2 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

This proves to be a gracious old pile known as Brockburn, where a party of vacuous people are sitting down to eat dinner and assassinate the characters of absent friends. Louise Penny’s Most Haunting Novel Yet 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z

Mistress Velvet told me that, when clients came to her with this sort of intense sacrificial devotion, they often were seeking replacements for powerful people who were absent from their lives. Love, Death, and Begging for Celebrities to Kill You 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z

Her voice, absent theatrics or gloss, resonated with audiences craving an authentic, intimate sound. Carole King’s musical odyssey 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

The environmental issues pervasive in industrial agriculture are not absent from the spice industry, either, even though spice farms can be relatively small in scale. When it comes to sustainable spices, ‘single-origin’ isn’t everything 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z

Arafat's many bitter opponents among Palestinian and Arab politicians and intellectuals are notably absent from the documentary, which also includes some rare footage. Documentary looks at life of Palestinian leader Arafat 2011-12-12T12:11:49Z

Also absent was the novel’s urgent spirit, the vertiginous sense of events careering out of control as the characters’ various obsessions and destinies intersect, which is what makes it such a gripping read. | 'The Demons': Peter Stein Takes Dostoyevsky to Governors Island 2010-07-11T23:13:00Z

We begin to see the absent human figure being sketched into the poem. Poem of the week: Darts by Christina Dunhill 2012-08-27T11:35:18Z

But that gloom is absent from the score’s buoyant, dancing mood, and from Dudamel’s conducting. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Wraps Up a Philharmonic Audition 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

What is dismayingly absent from Mr. Gold’s torpid production, unfortunately, is any palpable sense of the fraught emotional connections among these characters. Theater Review: ?Look Back in Anger,? Starring Matthew Rhys 2012-02-03T03:03:00Z

Supporters of gendered categories say that absent such distinctions, men would dominate the nominees and winners. Gotham Awards Won’t Define Acting Categories by Gender 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z

In that case, the winner would be absent, or rather incarcerated. Second Annual Edition: If I'd Been Tweeting from Cannes... 2012-05-24T15:10:01Z

The actor is present, but the character is absent. Review: In ‘A Kid Like Jake,’ Parents, Gender and a 4-Year-Old 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

They promised him new shoes and video games, plus the support his overworked mother and absent father couldn’t provide. Working in tobacco fields can make kids sick. But they still need the money. 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

His work, all but absent since, is being reintroduced by Skoto Gallery in one of the most stimulating painting shows in Chelsea this season. Review: African Art in a Game of Catch-Up 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Ali himself is absent, however, and the Parkinson's he's lived with for decades is barely explored. Muhammad Ali documentary 'I Am Ali' has its charms 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z

Characters on The Deuce speak with a brisk frankness that's often absent elsewhere on TV, and that makes it feel like real life. 'The Deuce' Succeeds Because It's Not More of the Same 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

"Boris Godunov" has been absent from the Lyric stage for 17 years. Lyric Opera plays it safe upcoming season 2011-02-01T19:28:52Z

An element that’s conspicuously absent from “El Camino” is the blues influence that informed early Black Keys records and came to define the band for many. Music: The Black Keys Change Gears With ?El Camino? 2011-12-01T18:34:37Z

Conspicuously absent from many of these discussions are the names of women. Chasing a leader: The great music director search 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

Oddly, however, the deliberate male-female balance we see onstage is absent from the show’s creative team. ‘Conscience’ Review: The Woman Who Stared Down the Red Scare 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z

Grappling with serious illnesses compounded by injuries, he had been absent from any podium for two years. Review: The Met Orchestra’s Season Concludes Under James Levine’s Soaring Baton 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

We talked about that word, Cora noting that her teacher writes down whoever’s absent each day at school. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

As a result, some of the era's greatest rock music, and rock music graphics, are absent.  The Art of Classic Rock by Paul Grushkin 2010-05-14T23:29:00Z

It is as if the Library of America were to reissue the complete novels of Toni Morrison absent “Beloved.” ‘The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick’ Gives Off a Bright Light 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z

Sometimes survivors are curiously absent from that fiction in a way that they are not absent from our lives, and I think that erasure is very troubling. Gabriel Tallent discusses his powerful debut novel 'My Absolute Darling' 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

Notably absent from the client list were professional performing pianists. Concerts Disappeared. Piano Sales Survived. 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

"I think she was absent that day," said Gray. Linda Gray: leg on The Graduate poster was mine, not Anne Bancroft's 2013-02-01T12:50:06Z

Daniel’s father, Paul, a doctor who was absent for much of his son’s childhood, sets out to prove Daniel’s innocence while contemplating how he may have failed as a parent. ArtsBeat: Noah Hawley Talks About His New Novel, 'The Good Father' 2012-03-21T15:29:13Z

Broken's plot turns on a broken mobile phone, but otherwise presents a world where technology is curiously absent. Tim Roth: who's the daddy? 2012-05-20T19:00:12Z

The present culture isn't all that new, yet it remains almost universally absent from British police drama series, a type of TV sometimes dubbed the drama of reassurance. Line of Duty – a police drama that swaps reassurance for reality 2012-06-26T16:00:02Z

Conspicuously absent from the discussions are mentions of home, family or women — as spouses, relatives or colleagues. Review: Comically Currying the Boss’s Favor in ‘Enterprise’ 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

What religious thought – and ritual – can supply is the two things absent from normative consumer liberalism. If we are to cope with climate change we need a new moral order 2012-08-21T07:30:01Z

Notably absent from the Top 10 list are any compact crossovers from the U.S. manufacturers. Tired Of Minivans And SUVs? Here Are The Best Crossovers For Your Family 2012-07-16T14:54:33Z

The rarely seen documents on “Network” speak loudly for their absent author, documenting the angst and animus that consumed him on this highly personal project. Arts & Leisure: Notes of a Screenwriter, Mad as Hell 2011-05-19T15:34:47Z

Fergie is absent, leaving the group’s founding rappers to deliver rhymes that are slow and uncluttered, determined to be understood. The Playlist: Black Eyed Peas Get Serious About Injustice, and 12 More New Songs 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

A bit of torture here and there, some hanging around with Harley in nightclubs, and then completely absent from the movie’s main narrative. We should feel sorry for Jared Leto. His Joker never had a chance 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

The character—scolded by her bohemian parents as an amoral yuppie, patronized by her brain-surgeon fiancé and by everybody else—explores the life of a black woman on Wall Street with an intelligence elsewhere absent. “Black Monday,” Reviewed: In Praise of Regina Hall and Little Else 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z

Conspicuously absent is its marquee series "The Morning Show." Something for everyone: The best movies to stream in April 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z

Brilliantly, Scott's high moral tone was strangely absent when, two years later, he let it be known that if the Academy felt like nominating him for Best Director for "Rage," he wouldn't object. Strange but true stories from Academy Awards past 2013-02-20T16:36:13Z

Alicia was absent because of a not entirely credible series of events that left her unemployed and sobbing — wracked with tears, convulsed with pain — by the end of the episode. 'The Good Wife' Recap: So Long, Farewell 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z

The Hawkinses have entirely human problems that predate Anita–Laura has been increasingly, mysteriously absent–and he bought the machine, he says, “To give us time.” Review: Humans is a Robot Chiller for the Smartphone Era 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

And if the show has been a lament on absent fathers, well, should we really be so quick to join Coach in his condemnation? ArtsBeat: 'Friday Night Lights' Watch: Heavily Involved Parents 2011-05-28T03:59:55Z

“My primary driver to get better was that my own father was absent for most of my life.” A brutal attack almost killed her husband. It transformed Abby Maslin into a different person. 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

The viewpoints of BP or other oil companies are notably absent. Gulf oil spill doc 'The Big Fix' screens in Cannes 2011-05-17T18:16:05Z

The critique doesn’t cut too deeply, and the sense of dread that seeps so distressingly into Genet’s play is pretty much absent here. Review: In ‘Chambre,’ Jack Ferver and Marc Swanson Refract a Tale of Murderous Maids 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

Rhoades had figured himself as a kind of shaman; absent him, the work felt hollowed out. An L.A. Artist Who Anticipated Our Trumpian Moment 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Women were absent in several other categories, including best play, best score and best book. Tony Nominations Spread Across a Wide Stage 2014-04-29T22:12:26Z

A musical theater veteran with nine Tony awards to his name, Mr. Tune has been absent from New York theater stages for at least a decade. ‘Lady, Be Good!,’ an Encores! Version of the Gershwins’ 1924 Hit 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Land finds the intimate knowledge she acquires of her mostly absent clients to be similarly evocative. The Brutal Economy of Cleaning Other People’s Messes, for $9 an Hour 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z

Though absent the thrill of the new, WNO and the Fortas series have both produced solid seasons that also reflect more collaboration between the individual Kennedy Center entities. Kennedy Center announces notable 2017-2018 classical season 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

Its music, long absent from streaming services owing to sample clearance issues, has finally become available. Celebrating De La Soul, With Questlove 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z

And while some aspects of late-20th-century life — most notably, politics — were absent from his palette, he was also free of nostalgia or grandiosity. 2010-01-12T23:36:00Z

Behind his desk, Stewart constantly targeted Fox News, a staple of “The Daily Show” that Noah has specifically said will now be absent.  Trevor Noah gives Fox News a free pass: The new “Daily Show” could be great for Ailes and Hannity, bad for America 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z

Stoicism is also a protocol of attentiveness, which makes it an attractive remedy for those who feel absented and estranged from themselves or the world. Better Living Through Stoicism, From Seneca to Modern Interpreters 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z

He is Gus, a young man who died in a plane on what this book calls "Nine-Eleven," and as an absent character he is shaped and perhaps changed by those who remember him. 'The Lake Shore Limited': Sue Miller's novel of 4 lives shaped by loss 2010-03-31T21:17:00Z

"A Delicate Balance": Stritch was absent from Broadway for years until the mid-'90s when she made a comeback in revivals of "Show Boat" and this drama by Edward Albee. Elaine Stritch, 89: Five noteworthy performances 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

The spotlight on Thursday is likely to fall on the absent Jafar Panahi, the Iranian director who was invited to be on the jury but who was sentenced in December to six years in prison. Berlin film festival opens with "True Grit" 2011-02-09T23:20:38Z

As “earthly” implies, Bosch seems to depict a world where God is absent and humans, subject to irrational forces within and without, are left to their own devices. Four Knockout Group Shows to See Now 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Come to think of it, men are curiously absent from Douglas’s book, which refrains from singling them out as a specific class of culprits. Stop Telling Older Women to Step Aside 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

She was absent from commercial concert stages for the following 27 years. Barbra Streisand Sets the Record Straight 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

The most striking way in which Lupin departs from its source material is in its focus on Diop as a father — a loving but slightly too absent and unreliable one. Lupin: introducing anglophone audiences to a more socially conscious gentleman thief 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z

Nooyi called the school to find out what other mothers were absent so she would feel reassured that other working moms also couldn’t make the meetings. PepsiCo CEO on Why Women Can't Have It All 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

I chose to absent myself from the London rehearsals to see what the director, Robert Ackerman, would come up with. How we made ... Harvey Fierstein and Antony Sher on Torch Song Trilogy 2012-05-28T18:07:36Z

Watts and Wyman largely abstained, and as a result were absent for some of the ad hoc recording sessions that resulted in the band’s next album, “Exile on Main St.” Charlie Watts, the Unlikely Soul of the Rolling Stones 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

They are also full of warmth and humor, which this film insists are never absent, even in dire circumstances. ‘Capernaum’ Review: A Heartbreaking and Defiant Look at a Boy’s Life in Beirut 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Both families consist of three very different kids, a domineering father, and at least when the series starts, an absent mother. “Empire” state of mind: Lee Daniels’ new show is like “Game of Thrones” for the hip-hop world 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z

These are qualities that are either there or not, and they can be absent due to any number of things that have nothing to do with how recently someone was dating someone else. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: How to deal with stress when you can’t turn off the news 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z

The sight of famous destinations, absent crowds and traffic, evoke a Sartre-like ideal — travel, without the hell of other people — that only accentuates their enticement. A travel writer contemplates a less mobile future 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Attorneys and publicists encircled him, but his two adult daughters — absent throughout the trial — were nowhere to be seen. Bill Cosby convicted on three counts of sexual assault 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

There are wonderful snippets of the Nicholas Brothers and others, but the films are absent. Academy Museum’s Show on Black Cinema Raises Questions About Who It’s for 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z

"Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust." Presidents' Day: Great advice from great US presidents for modern-day America 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z

It is rude to demand another person’s immediate attention, absent very specific conditions, many of which involve bodily harm. Perspective | Miss Manners: Bowing out of in-laws’ political group texts 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z

The growing practice of restaurants to require diners to order the whole meal at once is usually absent here. The spontaneous joy of eating at the bar, the last bastion of walk-in dining 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z

"American politics," he wrote, "is overflowing with stories of absent fathers, alcoholic fathers, neglectful fathers." Joe Biden, a father’s love and the legacy of "daddy issues" among presidents 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

Thanking the Little People Female characters were near-invisible in most of the summer hits, and woman directors totally absent. Box Office: Clooney, Machete and the Summer That Was 2010-09-06T07:15:00Z

Supplemental voices are absent, too—no gossip, no unscripted attempts at familiarity. “Case Closed,” Reviewed: Do We Really Want a True-Crime Podcast With Answers? 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

"It is one of the few autograph manuscripts of a symphony, central to the international orchestral repertory, remaining in private hands," Sotheby's said, adding that the manuscript contains material absent from any published edition. Manuscript of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 set for London sale 2014-04-17T15:33:03Z

She was absent last year, when the event was held without spectators because of the coronavirus pandemic. Queen beams as she returns to Ascot after COVID-19 hiatus 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z

The sense of vanity so characteristic of many online profiles was absent from hers. ‘One woman told me sex with a black man was on her bucket list’ 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z

The role of politics and public policy and the impact of structural problems in markets and institutions are absent from the analysis. Britannia Unchained: Global Lessons for Growth and Prosperity – review 2012-09-27T07:00:03Z

Finally, well into his memories of Marilyn Schaefer, a good friend and Iowa girl, he writes that her journals “were disappointingly absent of comments about me.” What Edmund White Thinks You Should Read 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z

Just like a nondairy cheese or milk, there will undoubtedly be aspects absent in the alternative version, but by most accounts — beer and non-alcoholic beer taste pretty darn similar. The diverse world of non-alcoholic beer 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

Love 'em or hate 'em, "defective" or just plain absent, there's no denying the psychic hold of fathers, that most formative, fundamental of relationships. Why Joe just might change Hollywood's bad dad trope 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

The absent figure in the triangle is always there as an obstructive phantom, so that no interactions are unconditionally between two people. Review: Tom Hiddleston in a Love Triangle Undone by ‘Betrayal’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

Here are two enormous problems that have to be faced right now, and they are almost absent from the primaries. Noam Chomsky on Donald Trump: 'Almost a death knell for the human species' 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z

Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader. Julian Barnes: my life as a bibliophile 2012-06-29T21:55:18Z

It may be worth noting that Crivelli used the cucumber — virtually absent from Renaissance art — as a signature motif. Carlo Crivelli, an Overlooked Renaissance Master, in Boston 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

"Completely absent from Syed's record are circumstances that typically cause courts concern regarding pretrial release," Brown wrote in his motion. Adnan Syed Asks to Be Released 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z

Notably absent from this list of harms is the potential of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation to create or exacerbate stigma, including weight stigma. How taxing sugary drinks reinforces weight stigma 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z

But get past the less successful gags and assertive crowd reaction shots, and Moore’s central thesis is one that has been strangely absent from the conversation: everyone should be thrilled to vote for Hillary Clinton. Michael Moore gets behind Hillary Clinton at surprise TrumpLand film screening 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

This is hardly the first time recently that Mr. Levine, who has been a centerpiece at the Met for nearly 40 years, has been absent because of health problems. Scrambling at the Met Before James Levine?s Surgery 2010-04-05T22:24:00Z

Mercifully, the show is absent the bitterness or cynicism that seem to define much of contemporary metacomedy. What You Should Watch This Week: ‘Brooklyn’ and Olympic Highlights 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

On why women are so absent from late night: Amy Schumer, Lena Dunham and comedy’s A-list women gather for epic feminist roundtable: “I’m not saying all men hate women, but there’s such an aggression” 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z

The country singer-turned pop diva was noticeably absent from Nielsen's audio streaming rankings, thanks to her withholding her latest album from services such as Rdio and Tidal. Taylor Swift's '1989,' Mark Ronson's 'Uptown Funk' top midyear charts 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z

But it’s so dense with serious world literature of every stripe, and so absent trinkets and elaborate bookmarks and candles and other foofaraw, that it’s a Platonic ideal. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

Biden's relationship with his father contrasts with perhaps every president in the last four decades, who had either absent or distant fathers or abusive or alcoholic fathers or stepfathers. Joe Biden, a father’s love and the legacy of "daddy issues" among presidents 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

These gigs shouldn't work – at first, it can be hard not to be preoccupied by what is absent rather than by what is present – but they pack a powerful emotional punch. The show must go on: when bands replace their dead stars 2011-01-27T22:59:01Z

Hollywood didn't want to alienate southern ticket-buyers, so race was largely absent from studio movies until the 1970s. Django Unchained: the inglorious history of slavery in the movies 2013-01-14T06:00:00Z

Ethnic diversity isn’t quite so prominent — but it’s not entirely absent either. 4 myths about classical music debunked 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

Not that people with autism have been utterly absent from the stage. Review: ‘Uncommon Sense’ Looks at Life on the Autism Spectrum 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

And “Love Letter” is notable for what’s largely absent: Mr. Kelly’s id, which has otherwise gone untamed — on record, at least — for the better part of the last two decades. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-12-14T07:30:19Z

Gloria Cain was appearing in a television interview set to air Monday night after being absent from the campaign trail for much of the year. Ex-boyfriend of Cain accuser backs her story 2011-11-14T20:26:00Z

When this financier asked Mr. Nichols if he could “punch it up,” Mr. Nichols said he launched into the sort of rebellious speech that is absent in his film. ‘Loving’ Aims to Speak Softly to History 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

In a lot of action movies, quick cutting is mostly an attempt to create a sense of urgency that’s otherwise absent. Review: In ‘A Hard Day,’ Looney Tunes Meets Cops, Corpses and Crime 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Perhaps his desire for attention was shaped by his absent merchant seaman father’s lack of interest in him. ‘The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir,’ by David Hare 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

This was performance art parading as a concert, with the artist being both present and absent. When you go to a Sia concert, the pop superstar is rarely seen but plenty heard 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

In all of these pictures, the photographers are both absent and present: we don’t think of them, and yet at the same time, we are seeing through them. Loneliness Belongs to the Photographer 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

The main narrative takes place in an American delivery room, as a Nigerian woman brings a child into the world, while texting an absent father and confronting a hard-nosed mother. Audiobooks to Get You Through the Most Distracted of Times 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

You mentioned that ego is refreshingly absent from this show’s vision of performance art; I’d submit that “Playlist” marks the lone exception. Marclay at the Whitney: Listening on the Couch 2010-07-15T16:15:00Z

I spent my whole life with him absent in some sense, even if in my childhood, particularly the decade after my parents’ divorce, he was still sporadically present. My Father’s Death, an Envelope of Cash, a Legacy in Music 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

Big-ticket paintings were noticeably absent this year, dealers said, because inventories are low. Finding Gems at the Fine Art Fair in Maastricht 2010-03-15T06:14:00Z

Marginalized by bureaucrats and absent strong community support, the addressee needs a human being, right there. Why the 'open letter to mothers' trend needs to stop 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

All those buildings full of rooms, all those rooms full of stuff—and the rooms and the stuff brimming with the presence of absent life. Knowing War Intimately 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z

His voice a hoarse rasp, he spends the night conducting his band, mugging at the crowd and absenting himself for lengthy intervals. George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic – review 2013-07-23T16:35:52Z

He hadn't performed in public since 2009 and was absent when the Beastie Boys were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April. Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys dies at 47 2012-05-04T18:27:21Z

Once the tension of being watched has eased, the mothers often start to reveal their story and how they came to be at Yvette’s, filling in often harrowing details absent from the paperwork. ‘Only about half the mums who come through my door leave with their baby’ 2016-06-25T04:00:00Z

Sex being serious, humor is rare, though not entirely absent. Sex in the Mirror 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

A few more commonalities to note: Seven of the 10 best-actress nominees played characters with absent or incarcerated husbands, boyfriends, or fathers. What Does the Academy Value in a Black Performance? 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

In this “series of memoir-infused reported essays,” as our reviewer described it, “Cornejo Villavicencio traveled the country, gaining access to vigilantly guarded communities whose stories are largely absent from modern journalism and literature.” New to the American Melting Pot, and Finding Its Taste Bittersweet 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

There are some irritating quirks, but on the whole it's an intelligent, truthful drama exploring guilt, regret, confusion and other grown-up emotions generally absent from the summer movie season. This week's new films 2012-08-17T23:05:18Z

But the Devil is in the details: Mr. Ward was also absent from that album. Pop & Rock Listings for Feb. 26-Mar. 3 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

There was a bohemian, hippie overtone that is absent this time around. Pioneer Women Are Roaming the City 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Another demographic notably more absent from this year's nominations are non-Caucasians. So why do women film-makers find it so hard to win an Oscar? 2011-02-25T16:19:28Z

Yet they are absent from the private museum that the British artist is opening in south London on Thursday. Damien Hirst: From Artist to Curator 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

His violent parents are mostly absent, if not asking him for money. Movie Review: ‘Himizu,’ by Sion Sono, Offers a Dystopian Vision 2014-03-14T01:41:45Z

Mr. Isherwood wrote that for most of the evening, “accomplished singing was all but absent.” ArtsBeat: Curtain Down, Heads Up: Where Are the Voices? 2011-04-18T12:00:41Z

Sometimes survivors are curiously absent from that fiction in a way that they are not absent from our lives, and I think that erasure is very troubling. Gabriel Tallent discusses his powerful debut novel 'My Absolute Darling' 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z

In year 8, I spent so much time absent from school that a social worker was called. 'It's nothing like a broken leg': why I'm done with the mental health conversation 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z

And when Giuseppe misses school and is absent from his forbiddingly shuttered home, Luna refuses to abandon a search that the villagers seem strangely unwilling to pursue. ‘Sicilian Ghost Story’ Review: Fairy-Tale Love Meets Real-Life Crime 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

The photographer at the centre of the play, said to have taken pictures of Tiananmen Square but not based on an actual snapper, is a corny amalgam: idealistic but personally absent, charismatic but negligent. Chimerica; Race – review 2013-06-01T23:06:18Z

Sure, they won a somewhat watered-down worlds with the Russians barred and the Chinese absent, but skaters still have to perform to their utmost regardless of the field. Stars on Ice back after pandemic with Olympic, world champs 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

Art detectives may waste their entire lives searching for absent masterpieces. Now you see them: the eternal allure of lost art 2012-07-01T18:31:01Z

The obvious get would be Vin Diesel, since his character had been absent from the previous film and could conceivably appear to cement a future franchise sequel. 'Furious 7' Marks Universal's Biggest Franchise Ever 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

He remains curious about his absent father, Troy, despite her insistence against his curiosity, and is struggling with his identity. 'Welcome to Night Vale' podcast becomes an equally weird, haunted yet humorous novel 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z

Antonia’s brother, George, who inherited that passion, has been absent for years, wandering India and the Himalayas, incommunicado for long stretches of time. Escape to Another Century! These Historical Novels Are Your Ticket 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

Redmayne also acknowledged two men from films conspicuously absent from the awards show: "American Sniper's" Bradley Cooper and "Selma's" David Oyelowo. SAG Awards 2015: 'Birdman' feathers its nest as Oscars nears 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z

When absenting herself to the bar while the men talk business, Grace says: "I think I'll bend my elbow while you guys bend your ears!" Gangster Squad – review 2013-01-10T21:00:01Z

Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov will also be absent as he is under house arrest in Russia on charges that his supporters say are politically motivated. Bardem and Cruz walk the red carpet to open Cannes Film Festival 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

In Rebel Without a Cause, Nicholas Ray dressed James Dean's dad in a pinny and explored the devastation wrought on the adolescent psyche by the absent and inadequate father. Why Joe just might change Hollywood's bad dad trope 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

The people who do not have children are still in there, covering for absent employees, learning new skills and contributing to the firm or government office. Magazine readers respond to stories about politicians, @Work Advice 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z

This motley of topics swirls and eddies and reforms, with exchanges of goofy insults and gossipy asides about whoever happens to be absent from the field at the moment. Review: ‘The Wolves’: A Pack of Female Warriors, Each Determined to Score 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

Another trap is that horror can lend those absent antagonists a kind of otherworldly glamour; why were the Duchess and Soon-to-Be — or Markle and Middleton, for that matter — attracted to royals in the first place? Review: Royalty as Horror Show in ‘Duchess! Duchess! Duchess!’ 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z

The notion that the system ought to be challenged, that there is even a system within which all this is operating, is notably absent from discussions about being a good Literary Citizen. More work, no pay: Why I detest “Literary Citizenship” 2014-04-23T17:04:00Z

Famously absent from awards shows for years, Woody Allen received the Cecil B. DeMille lifetime achievement honor, which was accepted by the director's "Anne Hall" star Diane Keaton. Globes leader 'American Hustle' gets Oscar boost 2014-01-13T17:03:48Z

There was little cohesion onstage, with many of the BSO principal players absent and subs in every section. Despite some standout playing, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra struggles at cohesion

Notably absent from the major categories is Taylor Swift, typically a Grammys favorite, who has 10 awards, including two for album of the year. 2019 Grammy Nominations: Kendrick Lamar, Drake and Women Lead the Way 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

Q returned to the series in Skyfall after being absent for two films, but was played rather more soberly by Ben Whishaw. John Cleese: James Bond lost humour to please Asian markets 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

William also excels at absenting himself — through prior sexual affairs or just mentally — so much so that Lucy “wondered who William was. Many times I have wondered this.” Review | Elizabeth Strout’s ‘Oh William!’ is yet another dazzler 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

She seems distracted, even absent, and I remember how Dad would refer to her as Svengali. 'Jesus, Ralph, you're dangerous' | Rupert Thomson 2010-03-27T00:36:00Z

Although T’Challa is absent from the new film, its version of Namor matches the comics: He still has the desire to drown his rivals and any bystanders who stand in his path. ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’ Is in Theaters. Let’s Talk About It. 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z

She does and the two tribes are united as one, which, despite efforts, requires a dance rife with cliche if now absent slurs. NBC's Peter Pan Live!: Recap 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z

“Many have been absent or never seen here.” Kennedy Center announces notable 2017-2018 classical season 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

I never heard him debate anything in class, on the basketball court, or even when our classes had our best arguments on days when teachers were absent, leaving a substitute to fill in. The lost art of not having an opinion on everything 2021-05-29T04:00:00Z

"Gray is the color ... the most important of all ... absent of opinion, nothing, neither/nor," Richter said with signature cynicism. Gerhard Richter opens largest exhibit in Paris 2012-06-04T19:29:09Z

Performing at Dupont Circle didn’t come without challenges — police telling the musicians to leave, bad weather, band members sometimes absent, days without tips. Driven mostly by Howard U. musicians, DuPont Brass hit its stride on D.C. streets

“In this vessel, after a long voyage, I arrived in England this 11th of June, in the year 1687, having been thirty and five years absent.” Review | Three hundred years later, does ‘Robinson Crusoe’ hold up as a classic? 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

That feeling has been notably absent in new shows so far this year. Review | It’s hard to stop watching ‘Seven Seconds’ — and that’s still the surest sign of a good TV show 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

But because of their timing, these events also attract a demographic normally absent from Manhattan’s club landscape. For Office Workers, Lunchtime Dance Parties 2013-05-08T21:40:27Z

Proponents of gendered categories say that absent such distinctions, men would dominate the nominees and winners. Why the Oscars, Emmys and Tonys Are Not Ready for They and Them 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z

The menace that Mr. Gogos brought to his portrait of Bela Lugosi’s Dracula is absent from his vision of the monster first imagined by Mary Shelley. Basil Gogos, Who Painted Monsters With Love, Dies at 88 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

You stop returning calls, texts, emails and basically unilaterally absent yourself from the relationship. Why ‘ghosting’ haunts modern relationships 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

Which isn’t to say that vegetables were absent from the menu. Katy Perry at Staples Center: 5 thoughts on her hometown show 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z

Because so many of Martin’s biggest songs featured singers like Perry, Britney Spears, Pink and Ariana Grande — Taylor Swift’s are mysteriously absent from the show — the choice to focus on a young woman made sense. Review: On Broadway, ‘& Juliet’ (& Britney & Katy & Pink) 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z

In Mr. Caponigro’s half of the show, the human subject is almost entirely absent. Bruce Davidson and Paul Caponigro Images at Yale 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

Both books share the stories of adolescents in Hawaii destined to enter national politics by way of Illinois, each with one foreign-born parent; both authors were strivers whose fathers were absent, actually or symbolically. Tammy Duckworth Was a Survivor Long Before Her Helicopter Was Shot Down 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z

Her appeal argues that the 14th Amendment "requires an admissions process untainted by racial preferences absent a compelling, otherwise unsatisfied, government interest" in having some racial diversity. High Court takes affirmative action case 2012-02-21T15:43:00Z

And even Williams’s father, though absent from “The Glass Menagerie,” had his turn on stage, inspiring Big Daddy in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” whose title was taken from one of CC’s colorful expressions. Tennessee Williams and the menagerie that made up the life of a legendary playwright

The suit kept her absent from the screen for two years. Olivia de Havilland, "Gone With the Wind" star, dies at 104 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

RE: No. DK: I mean, is there … You have to understand why it's confusing to us that you, in our log of emails, you are completely absent. Tribune interview with Rahm Emanuel 2012-02-12T13:12:00Z

On Thursday, at the suggestion of Ms. Netrebko, every member of the cast held a white rose during the final ovation, a simple and moving tribute to their absent colleague. Review: An Absent Baritone Looms Over the Met Opera’s ‘Onegin’ 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

The pre-dinner receptions, hosted by outlets such as the Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, were staid and perfunctory, absent the usual angling for a sighting of a “Game of Thrones” star. The night Donald Trump failed to break the White House correspondents’ dinner 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

The social consciousness and sense of political engagement crucial to the original 2 Tone scene is absent, replaced instead by longing and ennui. New band of the day ? No 1,058: Razika 2011-07-08T15:22:50Z

Even absent, the composer was the ghost in the machine — not least as a topic finally rendered explicit. Critic’s Notebook: Robert Ashley’s Work Lives On at the Whitney Biennial 2014-04-14T21:19:51Z

What’s absent is a sense of the weirdness in the ordinary, which Charlotte understood as a writer. Theater Review: ‘Brontë: A Portrait of Charlotte’ by Alloy Theater 2012-08-05T21:24:31Z

Since her dad was absent, MacColl could sing along to her brother Hamish's singles, apparently teaching herself the vocal harmony parts to the Beach Boys's Good Vibrations when she was seven. Kirsty MacColl: the great British songwriter who never got her due 2012-09-29T23:05:11Z

The sadly ailing and absent Mr. Levine is still officially the company’s music director. New Operas at the Met Prove to Be Rare Breed 2012-09-09T04:55:01Z

But nature is rarely absent from O’Keeffe’s motifs; the lines can also evoke tall thin water birds — herons, for example. Georgia O’Keeffe, ‘Modernized’ by MoMA 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z

The meetings were cordial, absent of any discussions of controversial topics such as President Trump’s derogatory comments about African countries, according to local news reports. Melania Trump wraps first solo international trip in Egypt with comments on Kavanaugh and Ford 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z

One thing that weighed on him was being photographed constantly, he said; his face is noticeably absent from the artwork of the new album. The Blessed, Cursed Life of Bon Iver 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

If “movie star” is conveniently absent from that equation, it’s because the list of brilliant comics whose genius did not translate to the silver screen is long and filled with some of our greatest talents. Stand down: when comics make unfunny big-screen comedies 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z

It becomes gradually apparent that he is absent from nearly all the key scenes, as though the book is enacting his own exclusion from the community to which he believes he belongs. Harvest by Jim Crace – review 2013-02-14T08:01:02Z

Though the book seems to be about an absent father, it’s more about a tricky mother, and about motherhood in general. A Teenager Plays With Fire and Family Secrets in ‘The Margot Affair’ 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

Gregory, the Lipsyte material reminds us, grew up poor in St. Louis, with an absent father who would return home long enough to beat Gregory’s mother. Dick Gregory, a Humorist With Many Passions and a Singular Gift 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z

Gypsy, she says, was either absent or abusive, depending on the day. Penelope Spheeris: 'I sold out and took the money' 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z

Even so, Loach lands some telling sledgehammer blows, even if – outside his UK and Ireland comfort zone – much of his customary nuance is absent. Ken Loach – all his films ranked! 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

But absent higher gas prices or larger consumer incentives, the new technologies are still too costly to justify. 2010-02-01T22:00:00Z

He’s an adolescent Godot, literally absent from classes and from the film, and the other students anxiously wait for him to reappear and explain himself. Japan Cuts Features Melancholy Films at Japan Society 2013-07-13T00:01:00Z

In the early going, there’s a hush, the kind of quiet you can have only if something is notably absent. Cannes: You’ve Never Seen a Holocaust Film Like ‘The Zone of Interest’ 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

It’s more robustly painted and the curlicue figures are absent. Félix Fénéon, the Collector-Anarchist Who Was Seurat’s First Champion 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z

The mother of a special-needs child being treated with high-pressure oxygen therapy is suspiciously absent on the day an explosion at the medical center kills her son. 50 notable works of fiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

And later, when Adrelene’s back at home and in front of her rogue mirror, her parents are oddly absent as well. Don’t slouch, young lady 2014-04-13T00:00:00Z

It's been pretty much a rare thing, so I just absent myself. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: He worries that every day after Jan. 1 will be 420 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

Without these insights, what remains is less the impression of a feminist musician than of an absent mother, neglectful friend and unassertive wife. ‘I Am Woman’ Review: Singing Against Sexism 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Among those absent was Scott Martin, a digital artist known as Burnt Toast, who received an award for an NFT project done in collaboration with Shopify. The Crypto Crowd Holds a Glittery Awards Night, Despite Fiascoes 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

Conspicuously absent: anything that qualified as an entry in the horror genre. Why Stephen King Planned to Quit Writing Horror After 'It' 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

Through approximately mid-November, crowds are notably absent and savings are abundant. In Colorado, Deals Before Ski Season Begins 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

They were absent last night, though, the first one back on the trail after Wing’s recent rehab. In a trek from Georgia to Maine, a group of veterans aims to ‘Walk Off the War’

Rated PG, this second Disney version of “Alice in Wonderland” has some dark and ominous undertones, both in its look and its story line, that were absent in the cartoon version. Film: Drinking Blood: New Wonders of Alice?s World 2010-02-27T02:58:00Z

Such self-assurance is often absent in actors, who require other people’s words to feel in control. Ewan McGregor: ‘What if I'm not Scottish enough any more?’ 2017-01-14T05:00:00Z

Notably absent from the patter at the top of the broadcast, at least from the perspective of our relentlessly political present, was any mention of the midterm elections that Tuesday. “Saturday Night Live” Takes on the Midterm Elections 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

I understand your concerns about adding a baby daddy with substance issues to the equation, but he is already written into it — even if temporarily absented. Grappling With a Teenager’s Accidental Pregnancy 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Notably absent from those monitors, to the displeasure of some fans in the cheap seats, were any live close-ups of what was unfolding onstage. Britney Spears' Las Vegas residency a departure 2013-12-30T14:37:19Z

Patricia seeks salvation through creative self-indulgence, while deluding herself that the arrival of her absent husband would somehow resurrect her defunct family. Is Archipelago a class act or an empty gesture? 2011-03-14T12:05:29Z

As Judith, the soprano Ausrine Stundyte made a bizarre treatment of the character — constantly on the verge of self-immolation — at least compelling, with a fierce humanity largely absent in the staging. Review: Two Operas Conjure Apocalypses Personal and Cosmic 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z

Each of our absent mothers has her reasons. Mommy Is Going Away for a While 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

Despite being absent an official band, he still speaks in the plural. Ariel Pink plugs into 'Pom Pom' buzz in his own singular style 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z

So scarce is Koenig’s surviving oeuvre that it is absent from many major museums. For Old Masters, It's Dealers' Choice 2010-07-16T13:00:00Z

The energy at this thing wasn’t low, so much as it was absent — proof that at today’s music festivals, the music has become background music. This one tastes bland, too: Sweetlife and the decline of the American music festival 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z

Virginia Warnken, an elegant alto, replaced the same absent singer in several ensemble selections on just 24 hours’ notice. Music Review: Worth a Reprise at Age 401 2011-01-04T01:02:28Z

If nostalgia is a sixth and often fogging sense, it is absent in a book that feels manifestly present, clear and alive even while describing the past. New York’s Midcentury Art Scene Springs to Life in ‘The Loft Generation’ 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z

Otherwise, written and notarized permission from an absent parent or another documented explanation — like proof of sole custody of a child, an adoption decree or the death certificate of a deceased parent — must be supplied. 2010-01-14T03:34:00Z

Amateurs offer him a variety and a flexibility apparently absent from the stages, screens and acting schools of the country. The Heli director on why his film was too brutal – and honest – for Cannes 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The discovery by Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, the morally unimpeachable detective at the center of the show, is notable because the scene is absent from the Louise Penny books that inspired the series. ‘Three Pines,’ Based on Louise Penny Books, Tackles Indigenous Suffering 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z

Some of these artists obviously had political convictions, but they are often muted or entirely absent in their imagery. Phillips Collection’s Neo-Impressionism exhibit captures movement’s escapist mood

Her is the beneficiary of emotions that are sadly absent from this beachcombing journal. Strands – A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland – review 2012-07-27T21:45:12Z

“It was hard. He was like an absent father, even though he was in the house.” Joe Bussard, Obsessive Collector of Rare Records, Dies at 86 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z

Two of us were absent when Disney spent two weeks on location and filmed the rest of my teammates going for a jog in the fields where we used to train. 'McFarland, USA' film revives long-buried memory for runner 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Populism was kept alive by Clinton’s rival Jesse Jackson, who is curiously absent from “People Get Ready,” though Sanders campaigned for him twice. What Do This Season’s Political Books Tell Us About the Election? 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

His mother was “put into an insane asylum temporarily,” and his father, a World War II vet, is absent. Meet ‘Harold,’ a Dreamy Third Grader With a Lot on His Mind 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z

He was largely absent last season, an Ibsen patriarch haunting his offspring from offstage. Breath of fresh heir: how Succession became the must-watch TV of the year 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

“Halt and Catch Fire” has mostly been a domestic drama about absent 1960s and ’70s fathers and their broken children who find solace sitting up all night during the ’80s solving technological puzzles. ‘Halt and Catch Fire,’ on AMC, Switches Gears in Its New Season 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

A part-time teacher, he is preparing a book on Nazi-looted art and notes the attacker wields a dagger, which is absent from the Tamar story, but typically held by Tarquin. The Mystery of the Painting in Gallery 634 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z

The Smiths were curiously absent from Danny Boyle's Olympic ceremony celebration of British musical heritage. Morrissey – review 2012-07-29T17:30:01Z

So the father is intensely present and absent at the same time: Abrams hints a little at this more melancholy aspect of Super 8 culture. Super 8 - review 2011-08-04T13:00:02Z

Why is God most absent when you most need him? Review: Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge Face Death Onstage 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

But the fact that there was room for some occasional chitchat in the script allowed for some humor — absent from Leclercq’s features, perhaps because it eats up precious seconds. A Specialist in Short and Lethal Movie Thrillers Jumps to TV 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

The president, nowhere on television and stymied on social media, was oddly absent amid the gales of speculation. Perspective | The grand finale of the Trump show: America watches farce devolve to horror 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z

Second, Coyle has also been distancing herself from Girls Aloud for some time – she was conspicuously absent from the 2008 Brit awards, when the band were up for their first best British group award. Girls Aloud's Nadine Coyle on her solo debut 2010-10-14T22:00:00Z

He is omnipresent and absent, inescapable but elusive, the invisible yang to Trump’s gold-plated yin. Robert Mueller is the most unknowable man in Washington 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

While absent the last few years, the orchestra is now back and headed up by conductor/composer Hans Zimmer. Seven Things That Will Be Different about This Year?s Oscars Telecast 2012-02-24T12:00:02Z

I want to stress that I’ve been extremely absent with the preparation or structure of the film. “A Taste of Sky”: A post-food documentary about one man's vision and new purpose for fine dining 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z

The film also serves as a valid reminder of Hunter’s scene-stealing skills, curiously absent in recent years. Holly Hunter: 'Sometimes I take a movie that I know is not great' 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z

The politics of the Iraq war are entirely absent, which is a political statement in its own right. ‘American Sniper,’ a Clint Eastwood Film Starring Bradley Cooper 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

The killer’s perspective, absent from the book, is introduced early in the series. How ‘The Alienist’ Finally Found a Screen 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

After a quick scan, I noticed Ms. Trump was absent. Melania Trump’s Ljubljana, Then and Now 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

Perhaps the duo will share flights with Alexander Wang, a Chinese-American designer who was absent last night, as presumably he will be heading to Paris often for his new Balenciaga post. On the Runway Blog: Chinese-American Awards Bring On the Fashion 2012-12-04T17:25:59Z

Mr. Gardner said his own father was absent growing up, and that he was inspired by his sister to start sewing outfits for Ava when she was three, refashioning adult garments to fit her. More Men Reach for Sewing Machines 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z

There’s an experiential component, he said, that’s absent when you buy “new midcentury designs,” alone at the computer or from a retail chain’s sales person. Is Good Taste Teachable? 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

There’s less emotional buy-in than with a scripted drama, but they possess a legitimacy and honesty largely absent in reality and unscripted television. How a TV Critic Turned to Podcasts During a Pandemic 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Because the real problem is not that women of colour are over-sexualised in music videos, but rather how absent they usually are in the dominant culture as well as in discussions of cultural issues. Shocked and outraged by Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda video? Perhaps you should butt out 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z

Still, the snail farm is not entirely absent of intrigue. At an American escargot farm, growth proceeds at a snail’s pace 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

Margot is 17 and longing for more time with her father, who is frequently absent while maintaining another family in public. Debut Novels Reveal the Fragility of Female Bonds 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

Or listen to this hilarious guy, who tells it like it is and shows you exactly how he does adobo at home, absent the atsuete. Chicken adobo a-go-go: it's a rap, and a recipe, Seattle-style 2011-06-27T17:06:14Z

In her 2005 novel March, Geraldine Brooks filched the absent father from Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and took him on a tour of Civil War battlefields. won the Pulitzer Prize. The Boy Who Lived Forever 2011-07-07T09:15:00Z

When I visited on a very gray, very rainy recent day, the sun-splashed river views reported elsewhere were absent. At new Whitney Museum site, a show is shrouded in parochialism 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z

The company plans three other concerts, including two vocal recitals and a concert by Mr. Wainwright, absent the orchestra and chorus. Unions and Ailing City Opera Meet About Next Season 2011-06-21T21:58:28Z

More recently, Phantom Gallery, staged between art spaces in Zurich and Los Angeles, faked a sense of history by painting walls with faded markings to suggest absent artworks. Artist of the week 79: Andreas Hofer | Skye Sherwin 2010-03-18T13:04:00Z

And, he says, there’s often little risk of confusion when theyre absent. Five Ways Punctuation Is Changing! 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Suspecting hidden cash and an absent owner, these opportunistic goons arrive with quarreling machismo and without much of a plan. Review: In ‘Intruders,’ a Surprise Awaits Home Invaders 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

Bright stilettos brought modern flair to the looks, while handbags, one of Dior's biggest products, were notably absent. Raf Simons makes Christian Dior travel through history 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

Through video, Hamnet meets and converses with Shakespeare, the father who was so absent from his childhood. The Week in Arts: Sleater-Kinney, Paul Taylor and ‘Synonyms’ 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

Her son has an absent father, and so he has quite a remarkable relationship with his uncle. "The Tender Bar" star Lily Rabe on "confident" director George Clooney: "He's a great leader" 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z

But the Italian president and the country’s prime minister, traditionally guests at the black-tie evening, were absent. Petals and confetti shower stage at La Scala opening 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

“I have been thinking about you every hour of every day for the past week,” Paul Auster said, addressing his remarks to the absent Mr. Rushdie. Writers Gather to Read Salman Rushdie and Support Free Speech 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z

Often, I’m perfectly happy with a drink in which that component is absent. Forget Dry January. We need better nonalcoholic cocktails every month of the year. 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z

There are events and politicians who are absent, not because they don't matter, but because they are part of a different story to the self-serving one I want to tell! Digested read: Tony Blair A Journey 2010-09-01T17:49:00Z

Maybe it’s been the soundtrack to your summer, but for me, it’s been absent. A summer of drive-by listening 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

God seemed too absent in Buddhism, and she couldn’t stomach Christianity’s idea of inherited sin. The Writer Behind a Muslim Marvel Superhero on Her Faith in Comics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z

My only complaint is that they and Dorfman's Korinsky are overburdened near the end with explanatory speechifying that is absent from the story and not needed here. Tragic 'Twenty-Seventh Man' brings power of the pen to bear 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

It is a technique we are familiar with in Sebald's fiction: the author is very much present in these lines, and yet simultaneously absent. WG Sebald: Reveries of a solitary walker 2013-04-20T07:00:25Z

Evidence of brushwork or markmaking might be purposefully absent from some of these canvases, but the physical gestures of an artist are satisfyingly clear in the patterns of paint application. Spray Paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Paul Klee, and Others at Gagosian London 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

With that as the focus, games are presented in their original formats, absent the consoles that often define them. Video games level up in the art world with new MoMA exhibition 2013-03-01T14:33:00Z

People are mainly absent, as the photographer worked late at night or on Friday, the eve of the holy day, so as to capture urban sweep and detail without visual competition from the usual throngs. Review | In the galleries: Views of lost scenes from Syria 2018-12-28T05:00:00Z

It is mostly absent the undesirable bro contingent choking Lower East Side bars, even without any official door policy. Mr. Fong’s Is Chinatown’s Unlikely New ‘It’ Bar 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

A Chaotic Neutral character was not so much morally corrupt as absent of allegiance. Dungeons and Dragons: My dorky literary muse 2012-12-08T16:00:00Z

These houses already encode a vision of history that in many ways is absent of any actual historical reality. Building Type: Keith Krumwiede's satirical jolt for the earnest world of architecture publishing 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The Hollywood Bowl amphitheater is completely emptied for this virtual concert, and Eilish plays to an absent crowd. ‘Happier Than Ever’ Review: Modern Pop Meets Classic Hollywood 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

Other key aspects of the song, like its bass line and signature opening guitar riff, were absent. Ed Sheeran Trial: Did He Copy Marvin Gaye? Here’s What to Know. 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

Madam appeared to be channelling a ghostly robot, her weirdly absent monotone killing every light line. Rewind radio: The Archers; Victoria Derbyshire; Keys and Gray; It's Your Round ? review 2011-02-20T00:23:00Z

Though the report makes these and other important conclusions, you'll notice that numbers are conspicuously absent in its language. Pornography: what we know, what we don't 2013-05-24T15:19:49Z

It is virtually absent from the scholarship on men and masculinities that developed rapidly from the mid-1970s, though its use in that area has increased in the last decade. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

"I was troubled by these figures because I thought the stereotype of black fathers being absent was a thing of the past," says Seani B, a music producer and presenter on Radio 1Xtra. Young, black and proud to be a father 2013-03-23T09:00:32Z

Last night we got Team members Chase and Taub back on , and the show gathered a momentum that had been absent in the first few episodes of the season. House Watch: Score One for the Team 2011-11-08T13:43:47Z

Sadly, Brooks’s most popular work, Defending Your Life, is noticeably absent. Drama-free Thanksgiving: alternative movie marathons for every taste 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

When “Symphony in C,” a core Balanchine ballet absent for three years, was revived in May, those tendus looked dismayingly tame. Critic’s Notebook: New York City Ballet Is Changing, but Questions Remain 2012-06-15T21:27:12Z

The Gilded Age aesthetic of the Armory, completed in 1881, adds an old-fashioned touch that is decidedly absent from convention centers. TEFAF New York, a ‘Little Jewel Box’ of a Fair, Carves Out Its Own Niche 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z

Is that because — even absent disaster — life is, too? Review: Staging a True Family Nightmare in ‘Accidentally Brave’ 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z

But what were those dreams, and were those what were behind Megan's absent smile at the office while champagne was poured? Mad Men Monday: Is Megan becoming Don? 2012-04-30T17:51:15Z

Ronny and Nick experience unadulterated male wish fulfillment while the female characters are either absent or left on the sidelines. Hear me out: why The Dilemma isn't a bad movie 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

Laszlo is convinced, like a proud and vaguely absent parent, that the child must be a genius, an artist. The best child on TV is on "What We Do in the Shadows" 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z

Recordings were no longer compromised documents of absent artists and their performances, but definitive, fully present encounters with musical works. Reinventing Bach by Paul Elie – review 2013-07-05T17:10:01Z

Recently one was going to be absent the next day because she had "really high fiber." When Autocorrect Goes Wrong (And So, So Right) 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Most bizarrely for a play ostensibly about two women, they barely exist except in relation to the absent Martin, who they seem to find fascinating but who comes across as a jerk. The Breath of Life ? review 2011-02-24T17:41:50Z

“We won!” she could be heard shouting through Mr. Antonoff’s phone, and then she asked about another musician, also apparently absent: “Could somebody who knows James Taylor tell him I love him?” Kendrick Lamar Sweeps Rap Field at Grammys; Taylor Swift Wins Best Album 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z

Holmes also was absent earlier this month when Cruise received the Friars Club Entertainment Icon Award in New York. Custody, images at stake in Cruise-Holmes divorce 2012-06-30T12:54:12Z

When he’s absent, it doesn’t much change the dining-room experience. At Sushi Nakazawa, Only the Price Remains the Same 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

There is a maturity, a common sense about critics and consumers of popular music that is totally absent from the high arts. Why Keith Richards should take over Tate Modern 2010-06-16T13:31:00Z

She was only in her 20s, and coping with an older son who had become deaf; his father was largely absent because of hospitalizations for injuries suffered during the Korean War. Stephen McKinley Henderson, an August Wilson Stalwart 2010-06-08T22:21:00Z

And those small things cannot ever, ever fill the void of an absent, imprisoned parent. ‘Your dad’s in jail’ 2012-06-26T16:33:00Z

Any reference was entirely absent from all publicity materials and as the film progressed, I was struggling to define any of the relationships as gay. Why Independence Day: Resurgence's gay couple are denied a close encounter 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

It's sorely and noticeable absent when cooking on propane. Charcoal or Gas? Depends on What You’re Grilling 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z

At first I thought HoC would go the Veep route and have the President be a distant, absent figure: talked about but never seen, his gravity only implied by the characters who orbit around him. House of Cards Watch: I Ate the Whole Thing 2013-02-08T14:00:42Z

Other aspects of its lifelong counterterrorism struggle are largely absent. Learning From Israel’s Political Assassination Program 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z

It’s never clear why Dickie has a soft spot for the kid, other than it gives Tony a narratively convenient, relatively benign replacement for his more floridly violent, often absent dad. ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ Review: The Best Really Is Over 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

"Wonderstruck" tells the story of two children in two different time periods with absent parents whose stories intersect in New York. Julianne Moore signs on to adaptation of Brian Selznick's 'Wonderstruck' 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

After Ms. Taymor was forced out on Wednesday her supporters said the two composers were too often absent and too unwilling to give her the time and latitude to address their concerns. A Broadway Superlative for All the Wrong Reasons 2011-03-13T23:28:26Z

The crowded installation and even the absent art contribute to a sense of careering velocity with which the Sculls and their collection came and went. Art Review: At Acquavella, Art From Robert and Ethel Scull?s Collection 2010-04-15T21:53:00Z

Last year three-quarters of the group, absent Mr. Nesmith, briefly toured Britain and the United States before cutting the tour short because of unspecified internal dissension. Davy Jones, a Singer in the Monkees, Dies at 66 2012-03-01T03:57:16Z

They create, as they must, a sustained, fraught dialogue within their characters and with their physically absent spouses. | 'Three Hotels': Marital Bankruptcy Filed in Faraway Places 2011-07-03T19:09:30Z

And to my heart, too, I should confess, although nostalgia is one element absent from Chesterton's stories themselves, even if consolation is their central purpose. Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z

It wasn't made by judges who had lost touch with ordinary life a long time ago, presuming to speak on behalf of an absent Collective. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Four 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z

And actresses are absent - all the roles are played by men, as in Shakespeare's time. Mark Rylance reigns in Shakespeare double bill 2012-11-19T12:31:15Z

First, there is the fact that the ultimate determination of value is not at all in the telling but in the tasting, which implies a measure of objectivity unfortunately absent from most wine appreciation. 20 Wines for Under $20: The Spring Edition 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z

Like wildfires, lake swimming — and anything related to hot weather — was absent from my list of things we might experience in Greenland. Trekking through fire and ice on Greenland’s 102-mile Arctic Circle Trail 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z

This, he wrote, results in spaces where people of color are typically "absent, not expected, or marginalized when present." The pushback against how Black suffering and victims of violence are depicted in art 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z

“Men are viewed either as incapable, absent, threatening or disinterested.” Absent father no longer: men confront stereotypes to become involved parents 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

“When I went to drama school he just became absent – which is worse than telling you off.” Adeel Akhtar: ‘I thought, Ah, there is a power to this’ 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z

Mr. Nahmad has denied these charges and was absent on Tuesday evening, because he had to surrender his passport as part of his bail agreement. ArtsBeat: Christie’s London Auction Brings Modest Art and Modest Sales 2013-06-18T22:05:38Z

Looking at the photographs conjures welcome sensations, however, that are often absent in the recent discourse on race: pride, joy and hope. At the Studio Museum in Harlem, 4 Shows Engage a Cultural Conversation 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z

But they’re all conspicuously absent when he calls their offices, and he’s conspicuously not in possession of their home numbers. Review | Joshua Ferris pokes wicked fun at the suburban patriarch in ‘A Calling for Charlie Barnes’ 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

It just made me wonder: Why have black characters been so absent from my fiction, not to mention the circumstances of my life? Chabon on race, sex, Obama: “I never wanted to tell the story of two guys in a record store” 2012-09-20T15:25:00Z

Aspects of the story that might actually be useful to include are utterly absent from the film. Don't just laugh at "Hillbilly Elegy" — its damaging myths still need to be countered 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

Jay searches for absent friends on empty corners, while haunting memories fill the spaces. The best films of 2020 ... that you haven't seen 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

Hollywood's 2008 ardour for Obama cooled amid frustration over slow or absent progress on climate change, Guantánamo Bay, gay rights and other liberal causes. DreamWorks boss leads Hollywood push to bring Obama a fairytale ending 2012-10-28T18:39:02Z

The neighborhood is hoping that the party will bring attention to the situation and force the absent homeowner to either sell or tear down the property. Decaying house in Louisiana neighborhood has birthday party thrown for it by frustrated neighbors 2021-06-07T04:00:00Z

In the haunting title story, we read of the narrator’s memories of his onetime lover, a young cellist named Maggie Brown, and of his college roommate, both long absent from his life. The Roving, Kaleidoscopic Vision of Peter Orner 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z

"Cinderella" star Lily James, who plays Lady Rose MacClare, was also absent. Duchess Catherine tours 'Downton Abbey' set, gets kudos for helping series 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

"Saturday Night Live" has poked fun at Davidson both while he was absent and when he was present on the show. Davidson thinking of leaving SNL 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

In a sentence flung toward Washington in 2018, he writes: “World leaders don’t lie awake worrying what will happen if America is present — they worry what will happen if America is absent.” John Kerry Recounts a Life Full of Incident (and a Few Regrets) in ‘Every Day Is Extra’ 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z

Jones's social commentary touches on the miners' strike, acid house and many other key moments such as Red Wedge, although Hillsborough is absent. The Eighties: One Day, One Decade by Dylan Jones – review 2013-07-08T09:00:02Z

Maybe God gave him a break: The shaky drawing hand and dulled imagination of a codger are absent. Always Leave Them Smiling: The Art of Al Hirschfeld 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z

After closing all its Chicago-area stores late last year, Dominick's Finer Foods, a fixture at Taste since 1993, will be absent. Taste of Chicago 2014: Turkey legs are back! 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

It's clear from the new album that Gabriel, long absent from the concert scene, has been keeping his iPod up to date. Gabriel's orchestral show slowly builds momentum 2010-05-05T01:55:00Z

He added, “I thought to myself, ‘This is the best shot I could’ve ever had,’ ” meaning that, absent his break, every show might have been on a flatbed truck. Bobby Vee, clean-cut teen idol of 1960s pop, dies at 73 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

The band’s guitars are muted, its usual volcanic rage downgraded to a mild pique, its co-frontman, rapper Mike Shinoda, mostly absent. Review | Linkin Park abandons its signature sound and the result is unrecognizable 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

The poetry found in her film is absent in the racing and jumping scenes in “Race,” and the movie’s overall palette is prosaic verging on drab. Review: ‘Race’ Chronicles Jesse Owens’s Rise to Olympic Glory 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

Music compositions by Eliza Thompson, the occasional trill of woodwinds between chapters, has the old-fashioned feel of a radio story hour, but sound design, which might have generated dimension and atmosphere throughout, is curiously absent. Review: A Solo ‘Great Expectations’ That Calls for Endurance 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z

So much for that "Don't be the absent dad" rule. The Way of Fatherhood, as seen in "Cobra Kai" 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z

The adults in her fiction are alcoholics, drug addicts, or simply absent. S. E. Hinton, “The Outsiders,” and the Birth of Y.A. 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

In Sleeping Cupid, there is a weight to Cupid's body that is absent in most depictions of him mid-flight. Caravaggio and me 2010-07-24T23:04:00Z

Save an absent Eric Idle, all of the Pythons contributed vocal talent to the movie, including Chapman, which is especially impressive given that he died from cancer in 1989. Movie Review: ‘Liar’s Autobiography,’ With Graham Chapman and Monty Python 2012-11-09T01:42:26Z

Horror movies by and about Black people are absent this summer — most summers, shamefully — which is why HBO’s new series, created by Misha Green, is so welcome. Scary Movies for When the World Is a Fright 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z

Brand and Perry were absent Friday from Twitter, where they often shared kind words for each other. Russell Brand, Katy Perry to divorce 2011-12-31T01:19:03Z

The usual hedging and filtering and softening and overall distortion that seems to happen automatically — even unconsciously — when black people attempt to speak about race to white people in public is absent. Ta-Nehisi Coates’s ‘Between the World and Me’ 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

But it is arguably a flawed law, too, granting an absent and reluctant father legal powers that allow him to arbitrarily enter the child’s life. ‘They’re not seen as human beings’: life for unmarried mothers in Tunisia 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

He posed each before that white backdrop; the West itself would be absent from the portraits, except that it wasn’t. Richard Avedon’s Portraits of the American West Ride Again 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Also absent, at least initially, are direct descendants of The Comedian, Nite Owl or other familiar heroes from the original’s 12-issue arc. HBO's "Watchmen" takes on white supremacy — Damon Lindelof promises to "troll the white savior" 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

But Daniel Kramer's production falters when the star attraction is absent from the stage. King Kong - review 2013-06-16T20:43:38Z

In that book, Obama seeks to learn more about their father, a mostly absent figure, after learning of his death in a car crash in 1982 at age 46. AP Interview: Obama's brother writes about abuse 2013-12-19T13:56:40Z

Lena Dunham's huge intelligence combined with a totally absent shame filter is really something. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 19-23 November 2012-11-19T07:00:00Z

But the fact that Flynn's subjects are essentially love, marriage and personal relationships gives "Gone Girl" a human connection that was absent in Fincher's off-putting last work, "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo." 'Gone Girl' finds David Fincher at delightfully twisted best 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

The story begins in 2017 as Ava, a biracial single mom, moves into her white grandmother’s mansion in New Orleans, hoping to connect to her grandmother as a way of connecting to her absent father. How Two Black Women a Century Apart Experience Racism 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

The moaning and sighing of spirituals were all but absent in Mr. Brownlee’s approach, which relied on volume and pitch rather than ornamentation to convey fervor. Music Review: Lawrence Brownlee Elevates the Spiritual 2014-01-30T23:49:25Z

Complaints, never absent from the industry even at its most celebratory, rise to a crescendo. Cheerleading for Milan 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

When New York City Opera announced its new season last month, the name of George Manahan, the company’s music director, was conspicuously absent. City Opera to Lose Music Director 2011-08-02T21:15:11Z

In other words, there’s no middle ground: Either race is largely absent or exaggerated to the point of caricature. Heady Stakes for ‘Black-ish’ on ABC 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z

Indeed, absent specific references to Baltimore areas and landmarks, these observations could reflect on any American city. “Homeless and hungry — please help!”: Baltimore’s panhandlers ask for our sympathy and loose change. Why are they so polarizing? 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

Most piercing of all, perhaps, is the tiny 1942 “Prologue,” by Simone Weil, in which Jesus is both brusque and loving, completely immediate and utterly, cruelly absent — all in the span of two pages. A Norwegian Novel Complicates the Canon of New Testament Fiction 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

With the Falcone-McCarthy projects, however, an extra layer of quality control is absent, and those movies lack a strong governing intelligence. Melissa McCarthy: why Hollywood’s first lady of funny is hit and miss 2016-05-30T04:00:00Z

During the State of the Union speech Tuesday, Manchin, a Democrat, kept open an empty seat next to him in honor of his absent friend, a Republican. Kirk's unlikely best friend optimistic 2012-01-26T04:09:00Z

Even absent that, I worry for your husband with a respiratory illness and for the increased risk to your mother. My City Friends Want to Wait Out the Virus in My Suburban Home 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z

All of these are procedural dramas, a durable format that in the right hands yields the kind of TV that a person can drop into whenever and regardless of how long they've been absent. How "Supernatural" reflects the American spirit and the monstrous darkness lurking underneath 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

Less Like Me” constitutes Paul’s pathetic anthem, a song he sings to his wistfully absent son about how much he hopes the kid doesn’t grow up in his image. ‘Cake Off’: Signature’s new musical is lively, but not fully baked 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

They surely would, but I am not absent. Motherlode Blog: The Home-Cooked Challenge: Taking Time Now to Save Time Later 2013-06-19T00:20:11Z

This will also help you avoid childish arguments over whether someone’s reasons for being perpetually absent without warning are, or are not, morally superior. Perspective | Miss Manners: Drama in the softball dugout 2018-10-13T04:00:00Z

Several years ago, Robert M. Milardo, a University of Maine sociologist, noticed that aunts and uncles were also conspicuously absent in his academic field of family studies. Let?s Hear It for Aunthood 2011-09-17T01:51:44Z

He was mostly absent from his own kids’ lives. Books of The Times: ‘Paterno’ by Joe Posnanski, a Biography of the Coach 2012-08-20T16:25:26Z

This number proves the power of a good old-fashioned action movie, a type of film that’s been absent from theaters in favor of Oscar bait as of late. 'Taken 3' Takes Weekend Box Office 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z

Mr. Jenkins was lamenting the dearth of directors or writers interested in creating the “family values” content absent the “cringe factor” that so-called mainstream audiences, rightly or wrongly, associate with religious-themed entertainment. Film: Wine, Wafer, Popcorn: Hollywood Courts Christians 2010-08-20T19:34:00Z

Trump was perpetually absent, just existing as things happened around him, or entering in at a sketch’s final moments. Donald Trump's Saturday Night Live Appearance Played It Safe 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

Normal is Lil Nas X filling in for an absent Lady Gaga by coming dressed in gold-plated armor, then shedding his C-3PO exoskeleton to reveal a sparkling, skintight gold body suit underneath. In an abnormal year, the Met Gala felt like a delightful brand of New York normal 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

We watch her have a day — she visits her mentally absent mother, buys some clothes and, for kicks, a decrepit old movie palace. ‘Human Capital’ Review: The Waiter’s in a Coma. Tennis Anyone? 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

Speaking of which, conspicuously absent was Harvey Weinstein, banished forever from the academy. Review | That boring Oscars show might have helped soothe Hollywood’s year of being fed up 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z

Watching “The Goldfinch,” I found myself fantasizing about one of the possible audacities that the movie, absent Theo’s unifying voice, could have hazarded. Review: The Wan Faithfulness That Made “The Goldfinch” Movie a Flop 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z

Stepfathers — and I count myself as one — must avoid outmoded notions of compensating for the absent biological father or paternal dominance. Navigating the tricky waters of being a stepdad 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

There's a hint of grit there, as there was on their collaboration with Jack White, that's absent elsewhere, original 50s recording techniques or not. The Secret Sisters: The Secret Sisters ? review 2011-02-17T15:29:04Z

Even so, “Bruno” was almost entirely absent from radio for most of its ascent. How the ‘Encanto’ Soundtrack Became a Smash 2022-03-07T05:00:00Z

Chris Wall in the Los Angeles Times called it “an impressive, expertly crafted work of sensitivity and detail, absent the hokum that usually accompanies sad tales of simple women and their domineering fathers.” Kent Haruf, acclaimed novelist who chronicled small-town intrigue, dies at 71

But in the case of Family and Matrimonial Court psychologists, OPD’s oversight is not so much flawed as it is absent entirely. For New York families in custody fights, a “black hole” of oversight 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z

Mere annoyance, absent any real affection for your colleague, is no justification for piping up. Social Qs: When a Finder’s Fee Is M.I.A. 2013-07-11T19:45:42Z

“When other social goods and services are absent or scarce,” she writes, “police become the default solution to an astonishingly wide range of problems.” The Merit, Thrills, Boredom and Fear of Police Work 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z

A devastated church with a leaky ceiling and absent pews. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ and ‘Comrade Detective’ 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

But absent that ingredient you can substitute slivered dried Turkish apricots. Does Blended Scotch Still Have a Place in the Modern Bar? 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

He’s handsome, generous and doting; he’s also often absent. Smart Watch: “The Deuce” returns with more strut in its street tales 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z

Urs Fischer offers a literally waxen redeployment of antique statuary: a candle in the shape of the Three Graces, the central goddess facing backward, their absent heads turned into burning wicks. ‘Rear View’ Is Rather Forward Thinking 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z

What is decidedly absent from the debate is a woman’s sexual fulfillment. A woman’s right to say ‘meh’: being sex positive won’t guarantee you an orgasm 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z

With those factors and the lukewarm reception for "... And Star Power," released in October and noticeably absent from most critics' best-of-2014 lists, it's something of a wonder that Foxygen was here at all. Foxygen knocks out a brave, raucous rock 'n' roll set at the Roxy 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

No matter what the format is, whether it’s musical theater comedy or whether it is absent of music, there’s still music to it. How to Squeeze a Feminist Farce Into an English Country House 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z

Days she’s absent bring the same luxurious sense of relief as the sudden end of a migraine. Worst co-worker ever 2012-07-24T00:00:00Z

The memoir starts with Hare’s childhood in southeast England’s socially rigid Bexhill-on-Sea, where his father was absent and his mother’s amateur theatrical experience included a brush with Julie Christie. David Hare’s political stages 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Jenner was also absent from the Emmy awards show in Los Angeles on Sunday where she was due to present an award with Kim Kardashian and her model sister Kendall. Sick Kylie Jenner pulls out of Paris fashion week 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

But this early music is notably absent from The Catalogue. Kraftwerk's Ralf Hütter: 'Now we can concentrate on album number nine' 2013-06-12T00:27:11Z

The most successful of these running gags finds Luigi pretending to be the club’s absent bartender to avoid arrest by the authorities. Theater Review: ‘The Explorers Club’ Pokes Fun at a 19th-Century Sanctum 2013-06-21T02:00:01Z

One issue was notably absent during the White House meeting — Trump’s executive order to temporarily ban travel to the U.S. from seven mostly-Muslim countries. Trump shows interest in privatizing air traffic control 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

For one thing, it has featured considerable Hispanic talent, still largely absent from the cable networks. ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ Season 2, Episode 8: The Zombie Code 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z

Male stars with absent mothers are a magnet to devoted, middle-aged fixers—Nureyev had surrogate stage mothers in every city he frequented—and I hated the thought that I’d become one of those meddling obsessives. Sergei Polunin’s Dance Mom 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

The book, Leap said, debunks the myth of the absent black father. Jorja Leap sheds light on Watts' black fathers in 'Project Fatherhood' 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

The sensuality that is so prevalent in many classical Indian dance forms is absent here. The Indian Monks’ Dance, Flowering With the Aid of Women 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

In an unusual instance in the fashion world of basic human solidarity, the continued applause for the absent Ms. Missoni at her show's conclusion signaled a group agreement to keep that hope alive. On the Runway Blog: Applause at Missoni, but an Empty Stage 2013-01-13T20:55:45Z

In the schoolroom, the schoolmaster was conspicuously absent, and some of the desks’ interactive touch screens were out of order. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z

What is absent are the actual dancing steps. Yvonne Rainer, a Giant of Choreography, Makes Her Last Dance 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z

The catalog reproduces 19 works absent from the show whose inclusion would have helped, among them a terrific, uncharacteristically rough O’Keeffe oil — the 1919 “Coat and Red” — that should be on permanent view. Art Review: ‘American Modern: Hopper to O’Keeffe’ Opens at MoMA 2013-08-22T22:04:13Z

Sweatpants are noticeably absent from the kit, though they still seem wholly appropriate for binging on bacon and beer. Beer brand offers 'broken-resolution preparedness kit' filled with beer, bacon 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z

Instead, Pinkett Smith’s voice has thus far been entirely absent from the conversation. Perspective | The misguided chivalry of Will Smith 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z

Men are absent from the island’s makeshift society, and Marsha explains that men have been consumed by a forever war beyond their shores. ‘Mayday’ Review: Misandry Is the Most Dangerous Game 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z

According to the Hollywood Reporter, director Bryan Singer was frequently absent on set, enough so that Twentieth Century Fox fired him with three weeks left of shooting. Did John Ottman save ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’? The Oscar-winning editor is being praised by colleagues — and mocked online. 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z

So it irritates her, naturally, when people complain that she’s been absent from the literary scene for the past two decades. After a 20-Year Hiatus, the Booker Prize-Winning Novelist Arundhati Roy Returns to Fiction 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z

She died by her own hand—not a uniquely upper-class fate, but most of her titled friends were conspicuously absent as her illness deepened. Patrick Melrose and the Fall of the English Élite 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Wen characterizes Marceau as a tormented artist who didn’t express himself vocally to his three ex-wives and who was constantly absent from his four children. The powerful silence of mime artist Marcel Marceau 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

That black garlic miso aioli looks innocuous as it zigzags across the bird, but it lends the dish a sweet, deeply savory quality absent from most fried chickens. Red’s Table review: Chef driven but family owned, making Reston proud 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

But absent the oppression of a dust-free studio and imposing electronics working to capture sonic perfection, music lives and dies on emotive expression. 'Letter Home' is stripped-down Neil Young in his ragged glory 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

In the movie, directed by Patty Jenkins, the islanders don’t get much of a chance to work on their loathing, because men are blissfully absent and, by definition, superfluous. Top Ten Things About Wonder Woman 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z

But if that is indeed the case, then Brooklyn music would seem to be conspicuously absent. The omnivore’s delight: Experiencing New York’s diffuse music scene at Northside Festival 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z

His mouth is nearly absent, as are the hands of the clock. Naked and Aflame or Considering Death, Munch Rarely Screamed 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

Goldberg has been absent from her regular presenting duties on daytime show The View, which airs in the US on ABC, the same network which broadcasts the Academy Awards. Oscars 2019: theories circulate that Whoopi Goldberg is secret host 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z

When you talk about life and death you’re talking about the body, present or absent. Bruce Nauman Reappears: Pay Attention 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Drama is especially adept at cultivating an appreciation for something sorely absent in our public life today — complexity. How theater should respond to a democracy in meltdown 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

What is absent in the big picture, unfortunately, is vulnerability. Review: Romeo and Juliet Leap to 1960s Hong Kong 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z

As for Molly herself, she lives in a modest apartment complex, but her parents—and her family story—are completely absent from the film. “Booksmart,” Reviewed: Olivia Wilde’s Toothless Teen Comedy 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z

Oars and other navigation devices were as absent as a Rand McNally map at a Google convention. Will the new 'Vacation' make Clark Griswold proud? 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Her father, whom Ms. Figes characterized as “absent” and “unreliable,” ran an employment agency. Kate Figes, Feminist Author on Family Life, Dies at 62 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

This is especially true of films that fit into niche categories: while classic, foreign, independent, cult and experimental cinema aren’t entirely absent from these services, they certainly aren’t to be found in abundance. Not just Netflix: the best alternative US streaming services 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z

What I love about the father is that you have an absent father who is not physically absent, he's around, but he is emotionally absent because he's exploring his spirituality. Ravi Kapoor on his comedy "Four Samosas": "I always wanted to make a lo-fi heist movie" 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

The novelist Lucy Ellmann, herself a mother, went further in an interview this year: “You watch people get pregnant,” she said, “and know they’ll be emotionally and intellectually absent for 20 years.” The Wild Woman Awakens 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

It was not always like this, as Gladys continually reminds her emotionally absent husband over their nightly glasses of Madeira. | 'Haunted': A Longtime Marriage, Threatened Inside and Out 2010-12-09T04:30:00Z

A middle-school student in Alaska is regularly absent, and his grades are suffering as a result. Motherlode: Whose Failing Grade Is It? 2011-05-20T18:36:25Z

As a family counselor and researcher, he’d seen a strong connection between absent fathers and children’s mental health problems. Absent father no longer: men confront stereotypes to become involved parents 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z

To explore these tensions, "The Invaders" unfolds in a world where the men are mostly absent. In 'The Invaders,' an unlikely family tries to fit into the Connecticut country club life 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

So, there was mirroring between the absent sister and the present sister. "Four Daughters" seeks to understand radicalization by ISIS: "People can go to the side of darkness" 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z

And even absent such considerations, this project has restored to public view approximately 1,400 pages of brilliant comics published between 1916 and 1944 on ephemeral newsprint. Comics masters 2012-06-12T00:00:00Z

As for Dudamel, he focused on energy and power at the expense of the ethereal, so the hints of the Infinite that usually break through in the music were absent. Review | Acclaimed Los Angeles Philharmonic fails to live up to its hype 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

Another absent figure looming large over the movie is David Bowie, whose song Space Oddity rings out during the opening sequence. Luc Besson on turning Rihanna into a 28th-century Cleopatra and being stood up by Prince 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

July 27, 2010, 3:35 pm Big Names Missing From Booker Prize List Celebrity authors were conspicuously absent from the list of 13 finalists for this year’s Man Booker Prize for fiction announced on Tuesday. Big Names Missing From Booker Prize List 2010-07-27T19:35:00Z

“When we thought about it, ethically, I wanted to be supportive,” she said over drinks at Boundary Stone, a bar she chose because it was paying its absent workers. Restaurants show diners what a day without immigrants tastes like — or doesn’t 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z

The ugliness of slavery’s brutality and Black resistance are palpably absent in “Jezebel.” The 15 most racist Oscar films of all time: Here’s why #OscarsSoWhite is not a surprise 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

“That Face,” about a dysfunctional family of four with plenty of money and plenty of emotional and behavioral problems, stars Laila Robins as an alcoholic and manic-depressive mother and Victor Slezak as an absent father. The Week Ahead: May 16 ? 22 2010-05-13T14:25:00Z

It was, I am almost positive, the first time in my life a man said that absent sexual interest. The straight cis men at a corporate gym helped save my trans soul 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

One is straight-backed and impassive, the other slumped and absent. Silence Speaking Volumes: Artists Confront the Culture of Incarceration 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

I mention this only because I’ve lamented before that the namesake of this show was yet to appear, and as far as I’m concerned, that absent streak — think Lou Gehrig in reverse — continues. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 3, Episode 6: Brick by Brick 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

That doesn’t mean soul food will be absent from the exhibition. Why the African American museum’s food focus will go beyond soul 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z

Bass lines are absent, and the music is no less propulsive without them. Review: ‘Electronic Africa’ Pushes Dance Rhythms to a Breakneck Speed 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z

It’s that aspect of inner world, of interiority, that I think I responded to as well, and what felt so absent from the “boy books.” The Baby-Sitters Club Taught Me Everything I Needed to Know About Literary Fiction 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

And at the book’s most dimwitted point: “According to dictionary.com, a ‘regent’ is someone appointed to oversee an organization while its leader is incapacitated or absent.” Review | Attention, Tom Hanks: Dan Brown’s new novel, ‘Origin,’ is ready for you 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Pope is still Lost's Sawyer-lite but he's also the only character who seems to be having a good time, and who has a sense of humour, something absent from everyone else. Falling Skies: episode seven 2011-08-16T21:01:01Z

In , such men were given a knowing wit and a sort of sharp ease in their speech which is absent from the book of stories. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z

In its sequel, Father Bear Comes Home, Little Bear's mostly absent father shows a tender side and becomes involved in his son's imaginative play. Else Holmelund Minarik obituary 2012-07-19T14:10:50Z

Both had disengaged mothers and absent fathers, and so, writes Morrison, “they found in each other’s eyes the intimacy they were looking for.” Rebecca Carroll's Great American Novel: 'Sula' by Toni Morrison 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

“The machinery of mass panic and media frenzy that juices up most films on this subject is notably absent,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Law & Order’ and James Bond 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z

Also absent from “The Crown” is Philip’s unapologetic fondness for demeaning one-liners about women and people of color. Prince Philip vs Philip of ‘The Crown’: Fact and fiction 2021-04-11T04:00:00Z

Most notably absent is that sense of the southern gothic, the antic unknown that set True Detective apart from the rest of the detective drama field. True Detective: season two, episode one recap – The Western Book of the Dead 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z

The twins’ normal madcap sensibility isn’t absent from the film, though. With ‘Talk to Me,’ Directors Leap From Phone Screens to the Big Screen 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z

The project is absent from most biographies of both men, and Peraino found just one published interview, from 1977, in which Reed mentioned it. A Long-Lost Lou Reed Tape With a Surprise: Andy Warhol Lyrics 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Each photograph was a solo portrait — from which humans were, for the most part, absent. Hilla Becher, Photographer Who Chronicled Industrial Scenery, Dies at 81 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Courtroom tables and benches are whisked on and off, too, though the jury box always remains vacant: Are the absent jurors the ones for whom the audience sits in judgment? Review | Broadway’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is here, and Jeff Daniels soars as Atticus Finch 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Even with the keyboard parts largely absent, such Skull songs as “In a Perfect World” and “Debbie’s Headache” — a new number and a retooled ’80s one, respectively — sounded almost lyrical. Review | At Rhizome, Live Skull and Thalia Zedek provide echoes of ’80s post-punk 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z

But on the Yukon River, about 500 miles to the north, salmon were alarmingly absent. Record Salmon in One Place. Barely Any in Another. Alarm All Around. 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z

Black immigrant characters were also absent from an increasing amount of storylines around immigration conflicts at the US southern border, although a record 5,800 African immigrants interacted with immigration officials there this year. Immigrant representation on TV over-emphasizes criminality, study finds 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

Otherwise, as is the case here, we are left in limbo, less “the missing man” referenced by the play than an absent emotional beat. Theater Review: Boys' Night Out, Girls' Night Out, and 'The Faith Machine' 2011-09-06T12:00:05Z

Why are drugs as conspicuously absent from “Ossos” as they are omnipresent in “Vanda’s Room”? DVDs: On DVD, Pedro Costa?s ?Letters From Fontainhas? 2010-03-24T22:24:00Z

But the whole nature of domestic cohabitation, joint decision-making, constructive compromises, even sharing a bed every night and waking every morning with her, feels vague and almost absent. I feel like Jason Bourne – I can’t recall daily life with my wife 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z

This shows that Trump’s propaganda is working as a great deal of Hollywood is rightwing and reactionary, and racism is hardly absent from the film industry. Why Universal shouldn't have cancelled The Hunt 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

But for all the shows’ seasonal trimmings, the religious aspect of Christmas is conspicuously absent. Music Review: Snowy Jingles and a Sinatra ?Dreidel? 2010-12-09T23:01:00Z

There are major departures from traditional tellings of Jesus’ life: Judas is absent, and Jesus falls into Roman hands by other means. | 'The Magdalene': A Married, Reimagined Jesus 2011-07-12T21:00:57Z

The Chinese version features local heartthrob Fan Bingbing - absent from the version showing abroad - and lengthy clips of Chinese scenery. 'Django Unchained' back in Chinese movie theaters 2013-05-12T10:45:25Z

The Saints adopted the measure while Joseph was absent on a missionary trip to Michigan. Blood vows: Joseph Smith, Mormonism and the invention of American polygamy 2014-04-20T17:00:00Z

When the Devil is trounced in Paradise Regained, "Darkness now rose / As daylight sunk, and brought in louring Night / Her shadowy offspring, unsubstantial both, / Privation mere of light and absent day". Darkness in literature: from the Bible to Joyce 2012-12-31T09:14:54Z

As a child, he was lonely, his absent father a ghost in his house. Why Stephen King Planned to Quit Writing Horror After 'It' 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

But Kafka’s meticulously described apparatus is mostly absent, barring some light bulbs hung from the ceiling that evoke the needles that the machine uses to punish its prey. Review: Boston Lyric Opera’s ‘In the Penal Colony,’ a Surreal Exploration of Injustice 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

So the murder of Aislinn Murray looks, at first, like another standard domestic — female victim, dead in her home, dinner set for two and a flurry of text messages with her absent date. A female cop feels a target on her back in Tana French's 'The Trespasser' 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

As well as a mother he admits to calling "ten times a day" throughout his life, he had an often absent father, whose approval he craved. The Outsider: My Autobiograpgy by Jimmy Connors – review 2013-05-27T06:30:01Z

It’s less than an hour before the taping begins, and the sunglasses Ross usually wears during public appearances are absent from his face. Rick Ross Talks New Album, Adele Remix and His Love of Pears 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z

And yet, it's largely absent here, the David Guetta-produced Right Now notwithstanding. Rihanna: Unapologetic – review 2012-11-15T15:30:00Z

Her father was mostly absent, and when he was there, her parents fought constantly, sometimes physically. Kathleen Collins’s Short Stories Were Almost Lost to History 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

In the taut espionage thriller "The Debt," Helen Mirren pulls off the impressive trick of dominating the movie even while she's absent for huge chunks of its running time. 'The Debt' with Helen Mirren is a master class in acting 2011-08-31T16:04:52Z

And if such rewards as the unmasking of the killer or the solution to the riddle are absent, it isn't because of perversity but because uncertainty and error are central to the stories' purpose. A brief survey of the short story part 27: Jorge Luis Borges 2010-07-22T10:59:00Z

"The Collectors" saw the Danish and Nordic pavilions transformed into the residences of fictional art collectors, creating compelling stage sets populated with disturbing traces of the absent protagonists' lives. Elmgreen and Dragset plan mischief for V&A 2013-01-17T15:18:21Z

But journalists are largely absent from the harrowing, heartbreaking front line of this crisis: hospitals. Americans want to see what’s happening in hospitals now. But it’s hard for journalists to get inside. 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

He had a contentious relationship with the elder Sinatra, who was often called the greatest singer of popular music of the 20th century but was absent for much of his son’s childhood. Frank Sinatra Jr., who lived in the shadow of his famous father, dies at 72 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

“He’s been completely absent,” the current department official says. Don’t sleep on Wilbur Ross 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z

The urge to pocket the soap is somehow absent. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: Basecamp in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. 2012-12-12T15:47:27Z

But Monroe was often late or absent altogether from the set and was fired in June 1962. Screenwriter Walter Bernstein dies at 101 2021-01-23T05:00:00Z

There are moments in the show that point toward an eventual ending in line with the book, but in the meantime there are major plot elements that are barely arrived at or remain entirely absent. ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ Review: Making the Leap, Again 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

Tom Sanders, professor emeritus of nutrition and dietetics at King’s College London, said the authors’ estimate of up to 7,200 lives saved was “flawed because industrial trans fats are virtually absent from UK diets”. Trans fat ban could save 7,200 lives by 2020, says study 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z

Foreign tourists have also been largely absent from New York because of a ban on visitors from 33 countries, which is set to be lifted in early November. A 6-Hour Opera in a Pandemic? The Met Goes for It. 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

The American media was largely absent—a symptom of disparate priorities, no doubt. At Thomas Mann’s House, the German President Defends Democracy 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z

Less believable, though, and too rushed at the end is a subplot involving Sunny, her absent mother and a female summer volunteer. Review: ‘Revolution,’ by Deborah Wiles, reveals personal side of Freedom Summer

One category largely absent from his repertoire, though, is photography. Photographs by Isamu Noguchi Are On Display in a New Show 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

On opening night, Hinrichs, filling in for his absent star, clutched the script in his hand as he declaimed the epicurean monarch’s lofty verse. Review: Byronic Heroism Can’t Save ‘Sardanapal’ in Berlin 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z

The agents live in a ghost world of absent relatives. Nazi thriller "The Debt" set in wrong period 2010-09-07T01:47:00Z

“But he was notably absent tonight, scared off, perhaps, by last spring’s startlingly passionate discussion of that menopause book.” At This Book Club, the Truth Is About to Come Out. It’s Not Pretty. 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z

This year three of the most established part-time performers were notably absent: Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and Hulk Hogan. WrestleMania Stories Collide in the Ring 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

Sarah Harding was the only member of the group absent from Cole's gig, with reports that she was busy in the studio working on her own solo LP. Girls Aloud reunite for Strictly Come Dancing 2012-10-09T09:40:04Z

Franz is a thoughtful observer but largely absent of strong political convictions, unlike some of his colleagues, who throw themselves into Iran’s revolutionary protests. A French Novelist Confronts Orientalism 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

Chefs eager to source more produce from local farms are turning to root vegetables in those months when fresh greens are scarce and tomatoes absent. Beets are trendy again, for a reason 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

"The future is suddenly absent, and my apologies are now so frequent as to be somewhat ridiculous," Morrissey wrote this week. Morrissey officially abandons South American tour due to 'lack of funding' 2013-07-22T09:57:45Z

So why have so many of them been absent from the big screen for so long? Which Batman villains should Affleck bring back – and who should play them? 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z

With production barely restarting, the network comedies and dramas that usually fill the fall season are mostly absent this year, replaced by reality competitions, true-crime anthologies and recycled shows making their “broadcast premieres.” Here Are 20 Shows to Watch This Fall 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z

There’s very little in the plays that is not Shakespeare’s words, only to connect what’s absent because of an edit. Druid Theater Company Makes Shakespeare’s Histories Its Own 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

A tour de force performance, yes, but also proof that this series has written its characters so well, they can be present even when the actors who play them are absent. The Most Memorable TV Episodes of 2018 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

When writing for the page, absent her voice, her cadences and intonations, she’s asking herself something quite different. ‘The Writing Hasn’t Changed’: Amanda Gorman on Life Post-Inauguration 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

He reaches his distant home village, from which he has long been absent; flaunting his cash, he’s welcomed as a hero. What’s New on Streaming: Three Cinematic Tales of Patriarchal Misrule 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

Thirty years later, when federal authority was absent and the pandemic surged, public-spirited residents – fortified by community institutions – stepped up again. "In the Heights" celebrates the resilience Washington Heights has used to fight the pandemic 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z

Men are virtually absent from the narrative, as they are in convent life, making marginal appearances when they’re temporarily required, not really missed in most instances. In Alice McDermott’s Novel, A Cloistered Life Blows Open 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z

Dorothy is the novel’s absent presence; she nags at the pages, appearing in the thoughts and memories of one of the key narrators, Bradford’s second wife, Alice. Was There a Murder on the Mayflower? 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z

Not least as he, in the same breath, described his father as largely absent. The Zoo; Horizon: The Truth About Personality; England v Australia – TV review 2013-07-11T06:00:08Z

But it does raise a fair question about politics and why they seem to be rather absent from this exhibition. MoMA does Latin American architecture: the High-Low chat with Alexandra Lange 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

My father, it appears, was not naturally connubial, and even in the early years of marriage contrived to be more absent than present. John le Carré’s ‘A Legacy of Spies’: An Excerpt 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

One of them may be Adam’s absent father — absent fathers being another Irving staple — about whom his mother, a ski instructor who refers to Adam as “my one and only,” has been mysteriously coy. Sex, Secrets and Absent Fathers: It’s the New John Irving, of Course 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z

Revision: Present or absent, the president could never stop this party. In the name of the movement: Black Lives Matter Plaza, Breonna Taylor and the long road to justice 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z

“So, while parents often require their children to say please and thank you during home life, when the children are absent, adults promptly dispense with all that.” Think You Always Say Thank You? Oh, Please 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z

Yet the city itself is curiously absent from this slim, speculative volume. Review: ‘If Venice Dies’ Examines a City Sinking, and Not Only Into Water 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

The third book in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s series of books inspired by the seasons follows the author over the course of one day, caring for his children while his wife is mysteriously absent. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

In these plays life is presented as a constant battle against inner demons and the outer forces of an indifferent world and an absent God. Theater Review: ‘DruidMurphy: Plays by Tom Murphy,’ at Lincoln Center 2012-07-09T22:58:53Z

“The very essence of the art form is its uncanny ability to give presence to something that is absent,” he says in a statement. Review | In the galleries: With two group exhibits, maximum exposure for photographers 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

According to the National Eating Disorders Association, intuitive eating is about trusting your body to make food choices that feel good for you, absent of self-judgment or the influence of diet culture. This summer, I finally surrendered to the pumpkin spice creep — and you should, too 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z

Playing a woman called only “Her” in the script, Anyanwu delivers a furious comic diatribe to an absent lover she’s apparently ambivalent about leaving. Review: In ‘The Last of the Love Letters,’ Passion Is Inescapable 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z

Yet it’s hard not to notice that homeless people who are ubiquitous within a three-block radius of CityCenter are noticeably absent within its boundaries. D.C. got everything it wanted out of CityCenterDC — except the crowds 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z

Nussbaum, by then so traumatized, so absent from anything like life, thought vaguely of calling a doctor, but she was not allowed to use the phone in Steinberg’s absence. Donald Trump is always the victim, but never to blame 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

The record, which peaked at number 29 on the Billboard 200, focuses on DeMarco’s tumultuous relationship with his mostly absent father, while interspersing moments of advice to loved ones. Mac DeMarco addicted to making music, seeks clarity through hard work 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

“Not quite brain-dead, just absent from my N.Y.C. address to which my agent in all innocence forwarded your letter,” Ms. Lee wrote, by way of explanation for its timing. When Harper Lee, of ‘Mockingbird,’ Corresponded With Opus the Penguin’s Creator 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z

At the New Museum, absent the installation’s early bookends, these matters of violence and superficial innocence remain. A Piercing View of the Twentieth Century, Through the Eyes of the Teddy Bear 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z

Some turned to radical Islam absent any genuine French option. How France Became a Dangerous Place to Be a Jew 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

"Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived" - as beautiful but also as a black woman in a world in which the images of beautiful, successful black women were notably absent. | Halle Berry 2012-10-18T20:21:12Z

On the Best Picture front, Brooklyn, Bridge of Spies and The Hateful Eight were absent from the pack, despite, again, the fact that there was room for 10. The Golden Globe Movie Nominations: Snubs and Surprises 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

He addresses his now absent father: “To survive you has flowered into my calling. I am basking in the light, and you can’t touch me.” With “Labyrinth,” Mark Dendy Confronts His Demons 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

Another star player has long been absent, and we don't know why. Starry cast is smooth in 'Championship Season' 2011-03-07T03:11:09Z

He has been absent from other awards shows since, though has slowly returned to the spotlight. ACM Awards, Amazon aim to give new flow to awards shows 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

About a dozen people from the arts community, including filmmaker and artist Julian Schnabel, read quotes from the absent artist. NYC opens exhibit by detained Chinese artist 2011-05-04T16:34:09Z

Black-owned or operated galleries are virtually absent among the exhibitors at the official Art Basel show. ‘Who Owns Black Art?’: A Question Resounds at Art Basel Miami 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z

A year later, when the New York Times’ classical music staff outlined its wish lists for the New York Philharmonic’s next director, Van Zweden’s name was conspicuously absent. L.A. meets the future conductor of the New York Philharmonic 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

As of Thursday afternoon, the statue was absent. Beyoncé’s Wax Figure, Criticized as Too Light, Is Now Absent From Madame Tussauds 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

Masterfully crafted, well acted, ultimately touching, but a vital spark, like the titular hero, is absent. Life of Riley: Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z

Yet the problems of racism, poverty, and police shootings have never exactly been absent in the genre’s lifetime. Hip-Hop’s New Wave of Lyricism 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z

Yet Nagano is inexplicably absent from the guest conducting lists of major American orchestras or opera companies. Expect the unexpected on recordings of Kent Nagano and Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

In the drama “While I Was Waiting,” about the destruction of Damascus during Syria’s civil war, the political was never absent but rather hovered ghostlike around a domestic story. Hard Truths or Easy Targets? Confronting the Summer of Trump Onstage 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

He shaved it off a few years ago; it’s disconcertingly absent from the cover of his 2016 album “Sensuous Chill.” Yanni Is Still Chilling, 25 Years After the Acropolis 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

The annihilation in the last line is total: "Present not hearkened to, absent forgot." Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z

Yet he is absent from most critics’ Hollywood Pantheon, despite the strong case that Michael Sragow makes in his 2008 biography Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master. Oz Revisited – Part 2: How They Made It Wonderful 2013-09-17T15:44:25Z

Williams was absent for the first five songs as his bandmates performed tracks like Greatest Day and Rule the World, which were recorded before he rejoined the band. Take That and Robbie gel on tour 2011-05-28T02:01:01Z

Yet another pressing topic in America has been curiously absent from art: abortion, which became all the more timely when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. After Decades of Silence, Art About Abortion (Cautiously) Enters the Establishment 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z

The birth scene is now a staple of film and television, but strangely absent from – sometimes alluded to in passing, but rarely dwelt on in closeup. Why doesn't fiction deliver birth scenes? 2012-08-05T18:00:01Z

Dwan's Irish cadences ensure that we recognise the everyday humanity of this woman's voice, but the fractured narrative and broken phrases mean sense and storytelling are almost completely absent. Not I – review 2013-05-22T12:26:50Z

It is not uncommon for Allen to appear in some of his own movies, but he is absent from this one. New woes 2010-05-15T19:11:00Z

“Take it from the child of an anxious, self-centred, narcissistic, psychopathic mother and a selfish, abusive and ultimately absent father,” another contributor posted. ‘It's the breaking of a taboo’: the parents who regret having children 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

Her parents are alternately absent or all too present in the claustrophobia of their modest circumstances. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z

The beats and bass are the sonic spine to an album that’s deeply personal and vulnerable, as Nguyen processes her relationship with her mostly absent father. “I’m just weeping and weeping”: Thao Nguyen on how Marilynne Robinson’s “Gilead” set the tone for her new album 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

Sentimentality is conspicuously absent in this short nonfiction page-turner, arriving on shelves in time for Father's Day. Golf stories: an oasis and metaphor for the multiple rounds of life 2011-06-15T19:39:04Z

The infamous and unapologetic rap group feature Tyler, the Creator and Frank Ocean, although the latter will be absent from Reading and Leeds. Reading and Leeds 2012: festival preview 2012-08-21T11:43:31Z

So what does the actress, nominated for a Tony, do to be present while seeming absent? Solving the 6 Biggest Mysteries of This Broadway Season 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

The pots, briefly absent, came back on the scene. William Scott, the painter who made the everyday into a masterpiece 2013-03-02T08:00:10Z

Our last Labor Day weekend was unusually quiet, absent the marquee concerts that compete with Airbnb getaways for end-of-summer entertainment budgets. Seattle’s biggest concert weekend in 2 years is here. And it feels kinda weird 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

But in other, nonpublic areas, like the conference rooms where drawings are put out for study — windows are few and filtered, or absent altogether. Menil’s New Drawing Institute: A Full-Service Home for Fragile Art 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

Any illusion of an omniscient truth-telling eye at work is absent. ‘Garry Winogrand,’ a Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

The moments when bass was absent — when drum machines chattered, synthesizers tootled or voices offered hooks — were brief voids soon to be filled. Music Review: When the Bass Is Like a Conqueror, Crushing the Guitars and Words 2011-08-14T22:30:28Z

Levitan's partner in the show, Christopher Lloyd, was oddly absent from the onstage celebrating. Split personality for Emmy Awards 2010-08-30T13:39:00Z

Consider the Shedd’s viral moment in March, when it posted videos of several penguins investigating the space in place of absent tourists. Virtual Encounters With Purring Cheetahs and Curious Penguins 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

"Nick's passing made me realize that one day we'll both be absent," she said in her first major interview since her longtime partner's death. Valerie Simpson on Nick Ashford: 'I'm not used to him not being here yet' 2011-11-17T08:00:00Z

The crowd was rapt, screaming every time she did a half-step of her quasi-choreography; the low conversational murmur that sometimes runs beneath the music at shows like this was entirely absent. The Misreading of Mitski 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

His mother, Edith, was a prominent socialite, but his father was absent in France, attached to the Red Cross – after he returned from abroad the father moved to Mexico and was never again seen. Jack Vance dies aged 96: master of bold and bizarre science fiction 2013-05-29T23:13:06Z

For the third year in a row, transgender characters were also absent from major studio releases. Diversity of LGBTQ characters in film declines, study finds 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

Derek was correct, of course: if the logistics of a narrative are flimsy or absent, then it hardly matters how lyrical its lines are. The Problem with Poetry Students, and Other Lessons from Derek Walcott 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

Most striking was what was absent: tributes to Prince and David Bowie; big political statements about the major parties’ candidates for president; controversial interactions — orchestrated or not — between the assembled glitterati. 5 Standout Moments From the 2016 V.M.A.s 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

“The news most consistently reported,” he read out loud, “is that the association between self-esteem and its expected consequences are mixed, insignificant or absent.” 'It was quasi-religious': the great self-esteem con 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

The AP advises against it, absent evidence that the specific aim was to take over the government. Riot? Insurrection? Words matter in describing Capitol siege 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z

It was their conversation, often carried on when they were caught between different cities, which sharpened his interest in "absent physical presence". Artist of the week 92: Raphael Danke 2010-06-17T16:08:00Z

In 1991, when I chaired the National Book Foundation, our board voted to restore an award in poetry, absent for many years. Letters to the Editor 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Both were conspicuously absent from the last four episodes of the season, having apparently carried out their vengeance upon Cersei. 8 'Game Of Thrones' Questions to Obsess Over Until Next Season 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z

In this case absent at a ball, stunning, in Worth. History Lives in Fiction: From Jennie Churchill’s Britain to Jacksonian Cincinnati 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z

Not even the wistful trailing-off typically inspired by absent friends or uncles. Unraveling my family's Cold War mystery 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z

A reliable staple of entertainment award shows, the "In Memoriam" montage of notable personalities who died in the past year was conspicuously absent from the Tony Awards ceremony Sunday. Tony Awards 2014: Watch 'In Memoriam' clip not seen on TV broadcast 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z

All of them will most likely be absent. Is This the End of the Red Carpet? 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z

Marco in turn rejects offers of friendship, hates the outdoors and is as absent from his own social life as his father is from Marco’s life. ‘Team Marco’ Review: Bocce Will Save Our Youth 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z

Reached at his studio here, Mr. Caminero said in Spanish that for 30 years local artists had been largely absent from major shows in Miami museums. Behind the Smashing of a Vase 2014-02-18T23:01:51Z

World War II is kept at a slight remove, but far from absent altogether, in this Polish film about the power of imagination to keep reality at bay, if only intermittently. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z

Making an impression on a woman is not wholly absent from Colter's mind either, but he can't just repeat his eight minutes ad infinitum, because the security situation is pressing and time is running out. Source Code ? review 2011-03-31T14:00:01Z

But these days the logo, with its ghostly green steps fading to yellow, a staircase to sunnier health, is largely absent from the major supermarket chains. The five-a-day disaster: why the numbers don't add up 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z

It isn’t that he’s been absent from film. Film: Alain Resnais Explores Desire in ?Wild Grass? 2010-06-19T06:53:00Z

Some items were taken, Captain Tippet said, but there were also standard signs of a robbery that were absent, particularly ransacking. In Pop Smoke Murder Investigation, Evidence Sends Mixed Messages 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Especially frustrating was the summer, when live performance began to return in Europe while remaining almost entirely absent from the United States. The San Francisco Symphony Plunges Into a New World 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z

But he wasn’t absent, merely hiding behind the lens of his Nikon. Snap happy 2013-05-19T18:30:00Z

The Potomac River, absent any boats except law enforcement, was white with reflected sunset. The last day of Donald 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

Conspicuously absent from Pasadena’s announcement was any mention of several members of the musical’s creative team. ArtsBeat: 'Sleepless in Seattle' Musical Delayed 2012-02-17T23:29:06Z

Any commemoration of the Barbed-Wire Kisses panel will be absent two voices. The Day New Queer Cinema Said: Let’s Do This 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

With its absent inhabitants and missing floorboards, the Vesper house is a powerful, and suitably eerie, metaphor for loss. Galleries: One view of how people of color are portrayed in pre-modern art 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

And it suggests a lonely existence for dancers like Copeland, a world absent of peers. Five Pioneering Black Ballerinas: ‘We Have to Have a Voice’ 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

In November, for instance, news outlets reported that Washington's city council voted to restrict short-term rentals to primary residences, and limit rentals in which the owner is absent to 90 days per year. New Orleans city council member moves to ban 'whole home' vacation rentals 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

Note that Dean, the bald dog-killer who usually showed up during the times the show got weird and boring, was noticeably absent from this episode. 'The Leftovers' Recap: In the Finale, a Showdown 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

Insiders are saying that since Donald Trump’s indictment, his daughter Ivanka has been absent and his other daughter Tiffany is trying to take her place by his side. ‘S.N.L.’ Brings Donald Trump to the Last Supper for Easter Weekend 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z

A gaggle of siblings in a big country house with absent parents, plus a governess, cook and nurse, is usually the recipe for a great romp. Tin Toys Trilogy by Ursula Holden – review 2013-01-19T19:00:08Z

The machinery of mass panic and media frenzy that juices up most films on this subject is notably absent. | 'Melancholia': Lars von Trier?s ?Melancholia? - Review 2011-11-10T13:00:00Z

The extreme offensiveness of the marchers, absent a particular threat of violence, was not and should not be illegal. Unmournable Bodies 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Being absent from your desk during these crucial hours might be an immediate red flag for your boss. 7 Questions Millennials Should Ask During Job Interviews 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

It's true that Obama's father lived most of his life in Kenya, an African nation once colonized by the British, and that Obama's reverence for his absent father frames his best-selling memoir. FACT CHECK: Anti-Obama film muddy on facts 2012-08-28T12:22:16Z

And almost incidentally, Gates is a new father, determined to be better than his own largely absent dad, in a movie that has a lot to say about parents’ hopes for their children. Three Great Documentaries to Stream 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z

Confident and efficient, Lewis pushed songs via raw, electrifying guitar strains absent on the restrained record. Twin Shadow lives up to the hype with style 2011-01-15T14:24:00Z

She also serves as a judge pro tem for King County District Court, sitting in for judges of the court who are absent. Quita St. John, Loren Betts 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z

So particularly the Britney faithful will most likely be disappointed to find the pop star absent from a show largely based on the products of her career. In Washington, a Princess Party and a Carnival of Self-Loathing 2021-12-23T05:00:00Z

The fact is, absent a child as a clue, it’s impossible to tell a mom by looking. What Does It Mean to ‘Look Like a Mom’? 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

Some sounds are conspicuously absent: sirens, deemed too triggering in the pandemic. It’s Showtime! Press Play to Hear the N.Y.C. That Used to Be 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z

The first mention of you was how you were absent at my birth, with only the nurses and my godmother to support my mum. A letter to … My immature, ignorant and haughty dad with nothing to give 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z

Mr. Turkovic was absent in the final work on the program, Hummel’s Septet in D minor for flute, oboe, horn, viola, cello, bass and piano. Music Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at Tully - Review 2011-10-19T22:40:11Z

“We’re co-writing songs together and it’s going to be recorded in a full studio,” Mr. Linzy said of the album he’s planning with James Franco, who was absent from the festivities. Scene City: Film Festival?s Elite Mixes It Up 2011-04-27T23:08:20Z

On the other hand, it really magnifies how absent she is. An Oscar-Nominated Transgender Director on His ‘Authentic Self’ 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Early on, when she talks about Springora’s absent father, her delivery falls somewhat flat, and isn’t helped by the heavy-handed live drums that are the musical accompaniment throughout. In Paris, First-Person Trauma Jumps from Page to Stage 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z

While Australia burned, and Scott Morrison slipped out of the country to Hawaii, teens took their revenge by roasting our absent leader. I need a hero: finding courage, defiance and joy in the dark days of 2019 | Josephine Tovey 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

Notably absent from the nine hypotheses are the words “false memory” and “confabulation,” and this is telling. Dr. Eben Alexander’s so-called after-life 2012-11-26T16:00:00Z

Whether that’s true or not, there were lines in pre-publicity trailers and TV spots - the whole “I’ve seen your eyes” fandango - that were notably absent from the final cut of The Force Awakens. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – the five finest fan theories 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z

Its rediscovery brings back the father’s ghost, but the transcripts that Ullmann reproduces also reveal the extent to which he was already absent: Exploring the Personal Legacy of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

One time, Queeman's favorite cake at the time — vanilla boxed cake with chocolate frosting — was noticeably absent. How Kareem “Mr. Bake” Queeman serves up space for queer chefs of color 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z

The flower structures have mutated to a point where the rewards of pollen and nectar are reduced or absent. Coneflower options abound. A recent trial sought to find the best ones. 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

It’s among the most ideologically ambitious of the Spike Lee joints, it really was the “Get Out” of its day, and it’s mysteriously absent from every legal streaming service. Who We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Weinstein 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

Her father was an alcoholic and frequently absent; her parents went through a messy divorce when she was 13. Diane Kruger: ‘I truly believe the best is yet to come’ 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z

The setting is Newcastle, but Geordie accents and imaginative use of Tyneside locations are largely absent. The Man Inside – review 2012-07-28T23:05:56Z

Once you'd heard the backline of drums and bass, it seemed incredible that this integral structural component had effectively been absent for so long. Let's raise a glass to lovely, swampy, droning, booming bass 2013-05-29T19:00:00Z

He also heard what co-workers said in the Oval Office about him when he was absent. John Dean, sex machine? And other new revelations from the Nixon tapes.

It was breezy and upbeat, absent of darker shading. Mary Gaitskill Looks Unhappiness Straight in the Eye 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

These are abrupt switches in the point of view of the film, where we leave the perpetrator’s perspective, and shift to the perspective of the absent dead. New York Film Festival: A 'Genius' Grant Winner and His Unblinking Camera 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z

But even in what it does cover, the doc feels rushed and skimpy, relying mostly on testimonies from former executives of the entrepreneur’s company while the stars he worked with remain conspicuously absent. ‘Mr. Saturday Night’ Review: A Producer Who Found His Groove 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

He kept his sculptures close, like family, and none closer than the great plasters, which were apparently absent from the ’67 presentation. Review: Picasso, Completely Himself in 3 Dimensions 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

Ella also finds exactly what she hoped for: a clue to her absent father. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘How High the Moon’ 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

Yet in the many discussions of fashion before and during the current Wimbledon tournament, equivalent design names are notably absent — from the court at least. Absent in Sports: Designer Fashion 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

Yet she doesn’t mimic the style of the book – written as letters to the absent Franklin – by using a voice-over narration. About a (Bad) Boy 2011-12-08T13:15:55Z

In 1985, for example, he noted that feminist criticism, an integral part of film, literary and art studies, was largely absent from musicology. Joseph Kerman, Colorful Critic of Musicology, Dies at 89 2014-03-25T04:23:17Z

Families, especially absent or estranged ones, are a big theme of “Adventure Time.” ‘Adventure Time,’ TV’s Surreal Masterpiece, Comes to an End 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z

Her fledgling efforts to help children with poor or absent parents culminated, after she met Mr. Ullens, in her establishment of an orphanage around Kathmandu, the nation’s capital. Myriam Ullens, Philanthropic Baroness With a Disputed Fortune, Dies at 70 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

For all its problems, Graysmith's book does at least offer something usually absent from any discussion of Psycho: a female presence and a woman's perspective. The Moment of Psycho: How Alfred Hitchcock Taught America to Love Murder by David Thomson | The Girl in Alfred Hitchcock's Shower by Robert Graysmith 2010-04-02T23:06:00Z

Getting older His latest offering, which is quirky and funny in parts, stars Josh Brolin, Naomi Watts and Sir Anthony Hopkins - who was absent from the news conference. New woes 2010-05-15T19:11:00Z

A bit of the cruel, pitilessly observant quality of the Melrose novels is absent here. Edward St. Aubyn Wraps Serious Thoughts About Science in an Entertaining Package 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z

Equally intrigued were young scientists desperate to witness technology that was credible and imaginative, something that had been entirely absent from feature films until then. Kubrick’s 2001: the film that haunts our dreams of space 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

It is so basic yet so absent in our culture. A 10-year-old’s complaints about school are creating morning misery 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z

He’s sad—about his flighty mother, his absent father, his lack of a support system—but this sadness manifests itself in anger and contrariness, the brunt of which goes towards the ever long-suffering Luke. A Definitive Ranking of Rory Gilmore's Hapless Boyfriends 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

On a personal level, being a mongrel of two different cultures basically means you have to behave like a divorced child: mentally defending the absent parent even when you know they’re partially guilty. Brexit broke my heart: I’m British, Spanish and now completely lost 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z

Atwood’s original novel passingly references the “resettlement of the Children of Ham”, but black characters are otherwise absent. The Handmaid's Tale's race problem 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z

Such a choice is not entirely absent from “Beyond the Lights,” but Ms. Prince-Bythewood has always had a sure sense of the complex interplay of ambition and desire in women’s lives. ‘Beyond the Lights,’ a Diva’s Romance 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

While People put the guest list at 200 people, the Telegraph said there were only 90; both outlets, however, agreed that celebrities in general were absent. George and Amal Clooney celebrate wedding again with party in England 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z

Despite some deserved buzz for his one-man survival drama All is Lost, Robert Redford has been absent from the Oscars race since 1995’s Quiz Show. The shape of next year: an early look at 2019's Oscar hopefuls 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

One historical angle oddly absent from Murphy’s reconstruction is the Hollywood blacklist, first drawn up in 1947 after growing unrest in the industry about the corrupting influence of creatives with communist sympathies. Sex, lies and celluloid: how realistic is Netflix's drama Hollywood? 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

All five were well served; all five had virtues that are absent from City Ballet’s renditions. Suzanne Farrell Ballet Presents Balanchine and Robbins 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z

Largely absent were the legends and legacy acts that have been clogging up Grammy night for decades, allowing viewers to actually hear what’s happening in contemporary music. Perspective | Megan Thee Stallion, Taylor Swift win big on a Grammy night that felt tastefully small 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

But she has parlayed not an awful lot of talent into a six-decade career, with a mixture of graft and cunning that is all but absent in the X Factor world of showbiz today. Joan Collins: my supermarket encounter with broken Britain 2011-08-25T19:00:01Z

Ellis is noticeably absent, holed up less than a mile away waging one of his frequent Twitter wars. Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie 2013-01-13T17:37:08Z

Mr. Rhys countered that it’s less about penance than love for the stage, from which he has been absent for seven years. Arts & Leisure: Matthew Rhys in ?Look Back in Anger? on New York Stage 2012-01-22T01:47:19Z

"But absent some truly startling revelation, I don't believe it will change his overall marketability." In family court, a reckoning for Mel Gibson's career 2010-11-23T01:05:00Z

White softens some of Brendan’s menace with an inner fragility and sorrow, and Hamilton gets the charm-smarm balance just right as the absent dad whose intermittent attention is so valuable and so unpredictable. Review: ‘Mrs. Fletcher’ Tracks an Empty-Nester’s Sexual Awakening 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z

There is one “new prince” that everyone in the audience was probably thinking of during the production, but he is conspicuously absent from this political soup. A Machiavellian Opera for Trump-Era Issues of Truth and Lies 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

In my own case, the coronavirus pandemic has left my bookish temperament all the more wistful and retrospective: I regularly find myself lingering over memories of old times and absent friends. Perspective | Remembering Norton Juster and other lost literary friends 2021-03-16T04:00:00Z

Ballen has invented a new hybrid aesthetic; often employing drawings, painting, collage and sculptural techniques to create elaborate sets where people ore often absent. African art around the globe 2012-11-30T12:10:54Z

Notably absent among the nominees were such awards-season contenders as Sofia Coppola's upcoming "Somewhere" and the Martin Scorsese hit "Shutter Island." "Black Swan" leads Critics' Choice award nominees 2010-12-13T11:05:00Z

Frequently absent because of his work, he was a loving dad when home. Review | Her first memoir was about working as a dominatrix. How can a writer top that? 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

Pip, who feels suffocated by her needy, reclusive mother and who’s reeling from a humiliating sexual encounter, sets off, like Telemachus, in search of her mysterious and absent father. Review: In ‘Purity,’ Jonathan Franzen Hits a New Octave 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z

Nor did the contradictory elements of the killer – absent but devoted father, homicidal psychopath and criminal genius – add up to a viable entity. Rewind TV: The X Factor; The Trouble with Aid; The Killing; The Poison Tree; This World – review 2012-12-16T00:05:52Z

If creators, even creators with explicitly feminist aims like Smith and Moss, believe that audiences won’t pay attention to female protagonists absent of youth and beauty, they will likely frame empowerment narrowly. Catherine Was Great. But Was She a Girl Boss? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

A powerful truth, captured by Mapplethorpe, is that the big, beaming “Say cheese!” smile beloved by bad photographers of kids is almost completely absent from their normal repertory of emotion. Baby Faces and the Myth of the Child’s Mind 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z

"Haulout" is a documentary that cares deeply about its form and function in a manner that is absent from some of the other nominees, and definitely deserves to take home the award. Salon's totally (possibly) infallible Oscar predictions: Who will win? And who should win? 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z

If there’s a paramount subject under consideration, it’s the relationship between sons and fathers, especially sons and absent fathers. Review: ‘Barber Shop Chronicles’ Offers an Exhilarating Sanctuary 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z

The old noir shadows and vertiginous camera angles are almost completely absent from “The Brothers Rico,” another paranoid tale of crime syndicate power. DVDs: Noirs on DVD and the American Depressive Tradition 2010-07-16T20:14:00Z

“What I’m hoping is that this version of ‘Roots’ will be able to cultivate a conversation that is absent the guilt and absent the shame,” Burton said. Can the new ‘Roots’ help us understand America’s current racial divide? 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Politically, the fall was dramatic: "absent in Iraq, no genuine impact on the Arab-Israeli peace process and seen as complicit in sieges in Gaza". Egypt has returned from the cultural backwaters 2011-02-24T16:19:39Z

Prepare to see meat hooks on the walls and illustrations of beef cuts on the tablecloths, and be forewarned that even the side dishes may be absent of vegetables. Stockholm, and the Strangers Who Brought Me There 2012-06-15T18:37:54Z

“Not at all” was precisely what Mr. Selznick — who sought a lack of affectation conspicuously absent from child stars of the day — wanted. Tommy Kelly, Who Played a Hollywood Tom Sawyer, Dies at 90 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

The stated aim was a photography book, a collective portrait of the young adults so conspicuously absent from western media's portrayals of urban Africa. Taiye Selasi: "I'm Afropolitan dammit!' 2013-03-22T10:54:01Z

Usually, her voice is recorded, and she is absent; for one piece, though, she sang down a PA system to unsuspecting shoppers at a branch of Tesco. Susan Philipsz: Lament for a drowned love 2010-04-04T21:00:00Z

The body becomes a mystical object,a symbol of all the gaps in the boys' lives: emotionally absent andabusive fathers, empty futures and broken families. Clip joint: Corpses 2012-08-02T08:39:54Z

Barkdull says the Skagit goes from completely absent of sockeye and then show up with no forewarning. Skagit River sockeye fishery begins Saturday in what should be good fishing heading into summer 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

He accepts that successful immigrants such as "grey squirrels and red signal crayfish" can't be got rid of; indeed they "now belong to ecosystems from which they used to be absent". Is our love of nature writing bourgeois escapism? 2013-07-06T07:01:00Z

The Greendale students are scrappy underdogs who save themselves with their wits and spunk and a real sense of fellowship — this spirit, drawn directly from the original trilogy, feels notably absent in "Skywalker." Forget "The Rise of Skywalker" — the only "Star Wars" sequel you need is this episode of "Community" 2019-12-26T05:00:00Z

Most hip-hop acts here draw indie/hipster crowds, an exception this year being J Cole at Kiss and Fly, where skinny white kids in checked shirts were virtually absent. SXSW: The Strokes, the Vaccines, Odd Future and the best of the rest 2011-03-20T22:00:02Z

Has this other been absent quite a while, or are you recently single? Perspective | Did this 5-year-old ‘just stop loving’ his mom? No. But something’s going on. 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z

In the end, Ms. Davis lost to the absent Anne Bancroft for “The Miracle Worker,” and a triumphant Ms. Crawford strode onto the stage to accept the statuette in Ms. Bancroft’s honor. At 101, a Survivor of Hollywood’s Golden Age Throws Down the Gauntlet 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z

He’s there in front of you, but strangely absent at the same time. Music Review: Not Quite Metal, but Packing Weight 2011-01-28T23:59:43Z

Lines accreted in an essentially radial configuration, with large arcs orbiting an absent central axis, and orthogonal spokes sprouting from the core. Julie Mehretu’s Long Journey Home 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

Notably absent from nominees this year were dramas "12 Years a Slave" and "Philomena," which are both nominated for best adapted screenplay at the Oscars. 'Her' and 'Captain Phillips' take top Writers Guild Awards 2014-02-02T05:22:37Z

The color is as bright as ever in this new sweet red onion grown in the Netherlands, but the typical bold pungency is absent. Onions Without the Tears 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

Suga was absent from the news conference due to a shoulder injury. BTS releases new album ‘BE,’ a ‘letter of hope’ 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

Shakespeare is uniquely absent from the records as a writer. I receive hate mail for questioning the authorship of Shakespeare plays 2013-04-23T07:00:02Z

While “A Legacy of Spies” could be considered a Smiley novel — perhaps his last — the paterfamilias of the Circus is absent until its final chapters. John le Carré is back in fine form — with George Smiley — in 'A Legacy of Spies' 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z

What if instead of being presumed absent, Black fathers were depicted as fallibly present? ‘… What the End Will Be’ Review: Learning to Let Go 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z

Over my four days in her former home, though, Maggie Comer, the lovesick daughter of the lighthouse’s first keeper, is absent. Less than a mile from Hilton Head, this S.C. island couldn’t be more different 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

Legal experts say that absent such a law, public establishments are allowed to require proof of vaccination for entry. Want to Party? You Might Need a ‘Vaccine Passport.’ 2021-05-07T04:00:00Z

She was absent when the justices last met in public, to hear arguments on Wednesday. Ginsburg back on bench after stomach bug 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

The flavor featuring fudge-covered rum balls has been absent from some grocery freezers since it was unveiled. Some stores freezing out Ben & Jerry's new flavor name 2011-10-20T22:43:16Z

Half the album’s songs — the better ones — appeared on a version of “$0$” released last year on the group’s Web site; other songs featured fellow rappers in Afrikaans, absent from the United States version. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z

And it’s simply not true to say that trafficking victims are absent from the conversation on social media. How sex workers are using Twitter to tell their own stories 2014-05-13T16:00:00Z

While Stairway was obviously absent, they delivered a Zeppelin-heavy set that featured enough new material to spare the exquisite musicians Plant has assembled the feeling they’ve joined a Led Zep cover band. The Complete Glastonbury Festival Post Mortem: 30 Top Moments 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

There's also another form of fruit that is useful in cooking, but very much absent from the American food scene as compared to traditional cuisines of European areas with viniculture: verjus and mustum. Exploring the Sweet Subtleties of Vinegar 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z

His father and brother Chris are largely absent from its pages, their silence implying, perhaps, their disapproval. When Someone Says ‘Everything Is Fine,’ It Usually Isn’t 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z

While Bettag and Rather cleared American airspace, Jennings stood before the Overseas Press Club in New York and presented the absent executive producer and anchor with an award for their Russia coverage in 1988. How CBS stole the show in covering Tiananmen Square

Some didn’t know why Mr. Ansari had been absent from public life, and the ones who did said they were not concerned. Aziz Ansari, Sidelined by Accusation, Plays to a Big Crowd Back Home 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

And, absent the electricity of live screenings, it’s not guaranteed that a hit will be immediately obvious when it happens. Sundance 2021 makes it official: The weirdest movie year ever isn’t even a year 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

Notably absent from the nominees were “First Man” and “If Beale Street Could Talk.” ‘Black Panther,’ ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ snag PGA nominations 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z

Aside from some sitting, standing and walking, active participation is unnecessary, and actual violence absent. Review: ‘I’m Bleeding All Over the Place’ Explores a Psyche (Don’t Get Hurt) 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z

The only absent member will be Graham Chapman, who died in 1989 at the age of 48. Monty Python confirm 'last ever' gig 2014-04-04T11:03:25Z

If I have children, they, too, may experience the helplessness and angst of a mother who is absent or unavailable because of illness. Life with migraines: ‘It feels like a creature is pushing itself through my skull’ | Anna Altman 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Boss, a professor emeritus in the family social science department at the University of Minnesota, defines this as an unresolved loss where someone is both present and absent at the same time. Politics and conspiracy theories are fracturing relationships. Here’s how to grieve those broken bonds. 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

Each image is arresting in its own right, bending reality and playing with airy light and shadow, all while incorporating a nuance and depth that is often absent in traditional glamour shots. Beyoncé gives rare glimpse into private life in first “Vogue” cover story shot by black phot... 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z

And yet, as Oscar season cranks up, Rourke’s film and its well-liked stars have been entirely absent from precursor lists – Golden Globes included – while The Favourite continues to gather momentum. Killer queens: how The Favourite reigns over Mary Queen of Scots 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z

I would inevitably get to the end of a project and realize something was absent from the heart of it.” Téa Obreht’s Second Novel Is Finally Out. What Took So Long? 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z

People, too, are completely absent in these paintings, and so is much of modernity. Maureen Gallace’s Restrained Palette of House, Sea, Sky 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Her parents are absent or execrable, she has no friends, and every disappointment is “one more nail” in the coffin of Jade’s dreams. Review | Stephen Graham Jones’s ‘My Heart Is a Chainsaw’ will delight horror movie fans 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

And, embarrassingly for something called the Great American Read, Native American writers are entirely absent. Perspective | What’s the best American novel? A PBS vote is a revealing look at our (limited) taste. 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

“D.C. schools increasingly graduating chronically absent students, report finds” To “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” I was raised in the D.C. public schools, Where the suits make their own achievement rules. Style Invitational Week 1269: Mess with our heads 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z

As the country shatters into civil war, she pines for her mother, absent in New York on a scholarship. Review | Three audiobooks to listen to now 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z

But suicide is pointedly absent in this big-hearted, beautifully written play that's an affectionate tribute to the joy and pain of teenage years. Loves Steals Us from Loneliness - review 2010-10-14T20:45:00Z

Janelle Monáe made a pointed comment in her opening number about female filmmakers, who were noticeably absent from the best director category. 2020 Oscar Winners: The Complete List 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

The second pilot, bearing the unwieldy title “Untitled LaGravenese & Goldwyn Project,” was described in a news release as a legal thriller, a genre so far absent from the channel’s schedule. ArtsBeat: AMC Orders Two New Drama Pilots 2012-05-03T21:57:02Z

Sidney Poitier, who died Thursday at 94, was the rare performer who really did change lives, who embodied possibilities once absent from the movies. Sidney Poitier changed movies, and changed lives 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

In recent years, he has been almost absent from New York stages; his last visit to Carnegie Hall, with his Staatskapelle Dresden, was in 2013. The Vienna Philharmonic Tends the Classics With a Perfect Partner 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z

Darwish's answer, perhaps, was to absent himself from the centre of the crisis. Ahdaf Soueif: In times of crisis, fiction has to take a back seat 2012-08-17T15:00:01Z

She will simply go away, absent herself from her home and her life. David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair' 2010-08-28T23:03:00Z

Soloway grew up in Chicago and their father was an emotionally absent psychiatrist. Transparent’s Jill Soloway: ‘The words male and female describe who we used to be’ 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z

The paper says he reportedly will be absent for at least one episode. Report: `Hawaii Five-0' star takes break from show 2012-03-03T10:31:07Z

Photograph: YouTube He was mysteriously absent from the official poster and doesn’t seem to be in the new trailer either, at first glance. Star Wars: The Force Awakens – six things we learned from the new trailer 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

It was first and foremost a judicial process, "but the clinical gaze was never absent", and was directed at the prisoners both as individuals and as a pathological group. The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess and the Analysts by Daniel Pick - review 2012-08-01T07:00:03Z

A bleakness absent in Haworth itself, where the town's stores are all staffed by people in ye olde fancy dress and there are more gift shops than cobbles. Yorkshire versus Ibiza: which is the perfect holiday? 2013-03-10T06:29:03Z

Glitzy Southern California and big oil states are largely absent from the list: 19 of the 25 richest counties in the country are on the East Coast. America's 25 Richest Counties 2010-03-04T21:50:00Z

Last year Lee Westwood won this for the third time: at time of writing, his name is absent from this year's entry list, which will be a relief to those who are on it. TV highlights 30/05/2013 2013-05-30T06:00:16Z

He has been known to draw cats that are smiling, an expression absent in Potter, and rare in feline nature. The Bittersweet Announcement of a New Beatrix Potter Book 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z

Only a handful of houses are officially allowed to style themselves “Haute Couture” with a number of major brands including Louis Vuitton and Saint Laurent absent from the club. Pared back Dior celebrates its ateliers at Haute Couture show 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

“While you are here/ you are alive,” he imagines the absent friend saying. Dirty Projectors Summon Pure Emotion on About To Die EP 2012-11-01T17:00:13Z

Over about a decade of sporadic reporting, Cornejo Villavicencio traveled the country, gaining access to vigilantly guarded communities whose stories are largely absent from modern journalism and literature. This Is the Face of an Undocumented Immigrant. Don’t Look Away. 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

Genre is increasingly fluid, as is the setting – one episode takes us to a German carnival – and protagonist – Earn, our ostensible lead, is absent from many of the episodes. 'No hugging, no learning': 20 years on Seinfeld's mantra still looms large 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

A mannered quality I often dislike in performances by Ms. Miller’s own troupe was absent from Ballet Hispánico’s unaffected dancing. Review: Ballet Hispánico, Piercing Stereotypes 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z

This meant it was entirely absent from cinematic and televisual culture until a fleeting image of a partially obscured plaque in Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest in 1959, as historian Simon Willmetts revealed last year. Washington DC’s role behind the scenes in Hollywood goes deeper than you think 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

It’s the sort of display that makes you think about your own inventory of passed-down possessions, of the lives these discarded objects might have led and of the absent owners who once animated them. Theater Review: ‘I Remember Mama’ Reminisces at the Gym at Judson 2014-03-31T02:00:01Z

Nor are the subtlety and empathy that underlie this judgment absent when Brotton, venturing beyond his home territory of the Renaissance, comes to explore the cartographical expanses of the middle ages. A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton – review 2012-08-24T07:00:02Z

That Ana has the word "Papa" inscribed on the wall by her bed provides a nice, subtle statement about her relationship with her absent father. In Netflix's captivating "Prayers for the Stolen," life goes on as one digs a grave to stay safe 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z

“He works in marginalized countries laden with constraints and adversity, where architecture and infrastructure are absent,” the Pritzker said in its press materials. Pritzker Prize goes to architect from West Africa 2022-03-15T04:00:00Z

Men are absent at best, violent at worst, creepy always. Young Women and Their ‘Unfinished Business’ 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z

Kiss and Stevens, who have been nominated in the past, made the cut after being absent from the list for several years. Nirvana, Kiss, Peter Gabriel Headed to Rock Hall 2013-12-17T05:49:24Z

But the contrasting poetry in the quiet passages, which might have given more depth to such an approach, was largely absent. Review | Serious music, from Turkey to the Colorado 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

He sings in his raspy growl about the wages of living a wild life, about his experiences in prison and about being shot, and about his sorrow over being an absent father. Dr. John?s New Album ?Locked Down? and BAM Residency 2012-03-29T22:22:02Z

And absent the requisite hilarity, this single-issue tactic quickly becomes tedious, leaving you with a limp sex comedy that feels as cinematically played out as the dusty charm of Austin itself. Review: In ‘Social Animals,’ Stalled Lives and Sexual Frustrations 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Tomine, whose graphic novels have drawn widespread acclaim for their subtle depictions of urban disconnection, said he admired the decision to emphasize smartphones and computer screens, which was absent from his stories. Parisian Love Stories for the Age of Talk Less, Message More 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

“Bosch’s characteristic way of working, with its continuous exploration and adjustment of the composition, is all but absent here,” the catalogue raisonné said. Prado Museum Rescinds Loan of Downgraded Hieronymus Bosch Works 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

You may have noticed that the entire Justice League didn't show up, in silhouette form or otherwise: Batman and Cyborg, who were part of the team in 2017's "Justice League," were absent. Batman and Cyborg were originally in the "Peacemaker" finale, but got cut 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

No political screeds are delivered; also absent are debates over the war or over the inevitable problems that arrive in its aftermath. Review: War Made Terrifyingly Palpable in ‘Citizen Soldier’ 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

The music was a delightful vocal arrangement of a famous Cuban song, put together by the group’s absent leader, Max Pollak. Dance Review: ‘Taps International’ Has American, Cuban and Japanese Work 2013-07-12T21:02:21Z

The movie is considerably more sentimental than the Camus, which is as arid as its stark milieu and absent a ray of hope. Review: In ‘Far From Men,’ a Teacher Caught in the Crossfire 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Their humanity – the flesh-and-blood individual that might fill each fabric shell – is absent. Artist of the week 108: Keith Farquhar 2010-10-06T15:50:00Z

An absent father, house moves, financial hardship, the bad relationships of his mother, and an overbearing older sister - played by Lorelei - are all thrown Mason's way. Linklater's epic journey into Boyhood 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

She also asked for privacy, saying she would be “a bit absent from social media during this sensitive moment.” Elizabeth Gilbert Announces a Split From a Central Character 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

She is played by Margherita Buy, who brings a depth of feeling that is sometimes absent in films where Mr. Moretti plays himself. A Director Casts a Woman to Play Him in the Tale of His Life 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

The V.I.P.-isms of the Armory Show — lounges for extra-special people, the whole language of exclusive this and that — are absent. Art Review | Independent: An Abundance of Room, an Absence of V.I.P. Gloss 2010-03-04T23:16:00Z

It was different, to be sure: not only were the tables fewer and farther between, but the instruments and framed photographs that long covered the walls were absent. Review | D.C.’s beloved Blues Alley comes back to life with a joyful set from Veronneau 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z

But the sense of upward thrust is mostly absent. Review: ‘The Sellout,’ Paul Beatty’s Biting Satire on Race in America 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

A good friend of Ms. Fleming’s is a good friend of mine, and he would rather have contracted consumption than risk being absent when she sang what might prove to be her last Violetta. Zurich, for a Song 2010-09-24T18:42:00Z

Through the years, Miss Ross has weathered scandals, personal embarrassment and career bumps with a grace seemingly absent from many younger performers. Motown royalty Diana Ross to perform at Wolf Trap 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

The Butler and Coen brothers movie Inside Llewyn Davis are notably absent from the 10 films, one of which will collect the prize on 19 January. Hustle picks up Producers Guild nod 2014-01-03T10:39:19Z

And then reality, absent until that point, entered. A letter to… my stillborn daughter 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z

Women of a certain age were, for the most part, conspicuously absent. The Oscar Nominations Prove the Academy Still Doesn't Get It 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

The father of her unruly brood happens to be away at the front, but White says: "I wanted the absent dad to feel universal." Nanny McPhee speaks softly but carries a big stick | David Cox 2010-03-29T09:44:00Z

But in April, when the Philharmonic returned, after 400 days, for its first indoor concert before a live audience, he was absent. Jaap van Zweden to Step Down as New York Philharmonic’s Maestro 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z

Though Jay and Bey dropped in on this Italian wedding, they were conspicuously absent from Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s recent nuptials in Florence, Italy, opting instead to spend the weekend in the Hamptons. Beyoncé and Jay Z Crash a Wedding in Italy 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Parents are absent, away fighting their own wars, and only the fittest kids will survive as weaknesses are pounced upon with appalling ferocity. This week's new theatre 2013-04-20T05:00:22Z

The craft that let the songs pass through minor tonalities within major-key melodies without wallowing is absent here. Review: Puttin’ on the Pathos in a Tribute to Irving Berlin 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

On the “Jewish Jocks” panel, though, Jonathan indicated that sibling rivalry wasn’t always totally absent. Franklin Foer’s View From the Sidelines 2012-12-05T22:06:27Z

An astringent pantheism is often suggested, but he was no visionary, and eros, whether carnal or mystical, is almost wholly absent. Art Review: Testing the Waters of Abstraction 2011-08-04T22:02:30Z

He’s often absent at night, and his wife, who is over the whole gonzo eating scene, works to maintain a semblance of regularity in their daughters’ lives. In New Memoirs, Food Writers Serve Up Stories About Their Beat 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

Williams knew why people were congratulating him: They were perpetuating the racist and pervasive myth of the “missing black father,” which purports that black fathers are too often absent from their children’s lives. A dad posted joyful photos of black fathers to shatter stereotypes. Then it became a movement. 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z

The towers, absent from the illuminated skyline, are reflected in the black water. Magazine Covers About 9/11 2011-09-09T23:30:24Z

As in so many of Sendak’s books, the parents play a marginal role — Ida’s father is away at sea and her mother seems oddly absent, almost narcotized. Digging to the Roots of Maurice Sendak’s Vision 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

Other such absent figures might include professional lighting and makeup people, actors with film experience, or any experience, a director with knowledge of actors, alongside simple but absent logistic factors such as accommodation and transportation. The Book of Henry is a catastrophically awful film. Everyone should see it 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z

The arch of the candle holder represents the mine entrance, and the candles signify the light absent from the miners’ lives day after day. Germany’s Christmas markets take yuletide spirit to another level 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Aliens land Aliens were curiously absent from big screens in 2015. Lights, camera, aliens … what we’ll be talking about at the movies next year 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

Even if we don’t like their specific choices, the core impulse to improve the world is a good one — and one that’s been conspicuously absent in other aristocratic cultures. Southern values revived 2012-07-01T22:00:00Z

The early songs from the late 1970s and early 1980s that made a Bush a household name were absent, but no one seemed to mind. How was Kate Bush's comeback? 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Forget about the men; Batman v Superman is all about the superheroine whose name is absent from its title. What to Know Before You See 'Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice' 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z

Her themes were adult but absent anxiety and pain, which critics dismissed as unserious, a pan which misses the point. Art We Saw This Winter 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z

The dozens of indexed city and town and neighborhood maps were absent. Frugal Traveler: Planning a Trip: Guidebook Versus the Web 2013-12-24T20:12:38Z

The captain of the novel and album is an army officer said to be absent without leave from his patrol in the Niger Delta - the hub of Nigeria's oil business. Meet Nigeria's Captain Rugged - a superhero who can dance 2014-02-26T09:12:25Z

The Supreme Court, absent its swing vote, is about to lurch to the right for a generation. Summer’s over, and things are back to bonkers. Here’s the view from Crazytown, D.C. 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

“That was the time when all that was possible in New York,” the performance artist and sometime Warhol superstar Penny Arcade said, referring to a social fluidity largely absent today. Ronnie Cutrone, a Man of Another, Cooler City 2013-08-02T22:08:34Z

For that matter Kennedy was often absent from home for long stretches of time. Books of The Times: David Nasaw’s ‘Patriarch,’ on Joseph P. Kennedy 2012-11-29T21:09:38Z

Love is everywhere, and if it's absent then surely it's there on the horizon. Essential tracks: These Chris Stapleton, Samo Sound Boy works qualify 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

And even absent those conditions, many said they believe mask-wearing is a sound idea in environments like planes. We may not have to wear masks on planes forever. But should we? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z

Rigor, and difficulty perhaps, but I can’t imagine a meaningful occupation in this world from which those qualities are absent. How to avoid writing an awful screenplay 2013-04-22T22:05:00Z

He teaches her foreign languages, he addresses her philosophical questions; he's invested, not absent. ArtsBeat: Desperate Dad: Amity Gaige Talks About 'Schroder' 2013-02-06T19:55:31Z

Films, news, literature, science, city planning, economics, the stories we tell ourselves about our past, present and future, are all marked – disfigured – by a female-shaped “absent presence”. The deadly truth about a world built for men – from stab vests to car crashes 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z

The irony is that Ellis himself is almost entirely absent from his novels. Psycho, genius ... fraud? 2010-07-26T07:00:00Z

“Once inside a car it becomes permissible to comment on those outside it, to remark on their appearance or demeanor, with a brazenness absent from most social situations.” Rachel Cusk’s Essays, as Sharp and Glittering as Her Fiction 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

The anarchists and blood-crazed mob are absent from the attractive biographical movie “Colette,” which takes a light, enjoyably fizzy approach to its subject. Review: ‘Colette’ and One Woman’s Lust for Life 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

There's a comedic undertone to our stories that is absent in the other ones I think, and Clary is part of that sassiness and part of that comedy. A Minute With: Lily Collins on fantasy, fans and first kisses 2013-08-21T16:56:59Z

Their professor took attendance by laying out name cards for students, and tallied those absent whose cards weren’t retrieved. An Argument for Loving ‘Devil’s Advocate’ 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z

With Netflix absent from Cannes due to its competition rules, the streaming giant, which last year won the Golden Lion with “Roma”, returns with offerings critics are hailing as must-sees. Venice film festival pulls the stars but gender disparity casts shadow 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

Others lamented that the humor and joy of the books is absent in an unrelentingly dark series. ‘Three Pines,’ Based on Louise Penny Books, Tackles Indigenous Suffering 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z

The usual ski resort paraphernalia – pylons, giant flashing piste maps, noisy bars – was absent. The ‘magic’ lift pass to 30 Swiss ski resorts 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Toward that end, the rest of the Addams Family is mostly absent from the show, though the actors playing those well-known characters are the big names in the cast. ‘Wednesday’ Review: The Strange Girl Is on the Case 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z

Women in this world are conspicuously absent, except for the boys’ mother, who spends days watching soap operas. ‘Horses of God,’ Nabil Ayouch’s Film About Islamic Extremism 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z

I learned that Opa had been absent frequently when Dad was a child, offering chocolates and comics to his sons on his return but little meaningful conversation, little interaction. Should I be ashamed of my grandfather? 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

And absent some catastrophic event at your wedding reception, I suspect you are in possession of all of the presents left for you there, too. When Is It My Turn to Talk?! 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z

Of equal importance, this being a play about the Irish, are the living dead, the absent souls who exist not only as scrupulously maintained memories but as catalysts in an increasingly eventful plot. Review: A Thrilling ‘Ferryman’ Serves Up a Glorious Harvest Feast 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

When Leonard Nimoy is laid to rest, his most famous “Star Trek” co-star will be absent. William Shatner will miss Leonard Nimoy's funeral: 'I feel really awful' 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

He was absent ALL of my life due to his own demons. NBA Star Lamar Odom Breaks Silence via Twitter 2013-09-25T13:19:24Z

I thought about statues, then, how they each represented years of people’s lives: The people who stood and painstakingly made them, the people who, absent Polaroids, posed for them. Mourning in Paris 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

The Stark men were absent from the panel, but they were missed -- sort of.  Comic-Con: 'Game of Thrones' panel discusses Sansa's and Arya's tough times 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

Conspicuously absent among the composers were Jerome Kern and George Gershwin. Music Review: At the Broadway Cabaret Festival, Kooks and Cutups 2010-10-17T22:25:00Z

The considerable powers of persuasion Mr Zirin regularly deploys in court are disappointingly absent from this ode to his favourite place of business. Courtly love 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

The sophomoric humor may be absent, but in its place is only a soufflé of whimsy, seasoned with soot, that fails to rise. Review: ‘The Cobbler,’ With Adam Sandler, a World in Others’ Shoes 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

At the center of things is Ms. Biel, who’s been mostly absent from TV since her tenure as a rebellious teenager two decades ago on “7th Heaven.” Review: Jessica Biel in ‘The Sinner,’ a Whydunit 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

But the problem was absent when the company performed at New York City Center in March. Review: A ‘Nutcracker’ Taps and Swings 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

The Toronto Star reported that about 200 relatives and friends attended, but Feldman was notably absent. 911 tape released in actor Corey Haim's death 2010-03-16T23:38:00Z

As for Journey: as always these days, of course, the band will be absent its longtime vocal asset Steve Perry, who long ago stopped performing with the band. Journey to perform at 2015 Hollywood Bowl opening night concert 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The bold aesthetic choices that drew so much flak and snarky memes in Christmases past are noticeably absent. The White House Christmas Decorations Look Strikingly Normal 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z

“In every top level right now, women are absent.” Women will get equal pay … in 118 years 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

None of his 12 female principals were absent long-term with injury. Critic?s Notebook: At City Ballet This Winter, You Could Sometimes See the Music 2011-02-28T23:15:07Z

Director Lindy Heymann begins by adroitly, if overemphatically, showing how for both women obsessing over a football star is a symptom of emotional pain caused by the absent men in their lives. Film review: Kicks 2010-06-03T22:15:00Z

British actress Blunt puts a finer point on that character trait, praising Liman's ability to present his unvarnished opinion absent any fear of provoking dissent in his ranks. Doug Liman hopes his wild loop means a hit with 'Edge of Tomorrow' 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z

The 55-year-old Gleeson, who was once told by a Hollywood agent that he was "too old and too ugly", brings to the screen a salty authenticity absent from your Orlando Blooms. Brendan Gleeson: the character actor who steals the show 2010-03-18T23:15:00Z

But the issue was largely absent from this year’s ceremony, with no one mentioning Mr. Moonves from the stage. 2018 Emmys: ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ Win Top Awards 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

The allure of the obsidian notwithstanding, gimmicks are not entirely absent. Art in Review: Olafur Eliasson: ‘Volcanoes and shelters’ 2012-11-15T23:25:56Z

Lewis spent much of the 1970s absent from the big screen after making “The Day the Clown Cried,” about a circus clown in a concentration camp. Analysis | The two sides of Jerry Lewis 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z

In addition to this first appearance after being absent on the series for almost three seasons, the actor who plays Hot Pie took his own advice and mastered a new talent: baking. “Game of Thrones” Hot Pie actor is an actual real-life baker! 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z

His father was absent, and he once rapped, “Growing up with no father, it’ll make you evil / How he gon’ learn to be a man when you ain’t never teach him?” Review | Kodak Black, mired in controversy, is a tough act to reckon with 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

For mid-20th-century readers, one of the most striking things about Ms. Morrison’s work was that it delineates a world in which white people are largely absent, a relatively rare thing in fiction of the period. Toni Morrison, Towering Novelist of the Black Experience, Dies at 88 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z

But viewers today are left to try to extract meaning from truncated bits of performance, as in Wednesday night’s brief shot of Joanna announcing she’s received “the greatest” gift from her absent husband Tyrell. 'Mr. Robot' Can't Satisfyingly End Season 2 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Confronting the real world, which is so absent elsewhere, lends a dose of real-life gravity to the fiction. ‘Where We Stand’ Review: Gifts are Given, but at What Cost? 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

But those lacking a translation may miss that his lyrics deal with topics not often set to a boisterous beat: cancer, absent fathers, AIDS. Meet the European Superstar Who's About to Be Huge in America: Exclusive 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

Common themes connect the other stories to these linked ones: absent fathers, infidelity, a trembling line between the hyper-sanity of daily ritual and the tilt into madness. Stories Spanning Countries and Generations, by Jo Lloyd, Yoon Choi and Hilma Wolitzer 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

The drunkenness and subsequent violence that are a selling point for “Jersey Shore” are largely absent. Critic?s Notebook: ?The Only Way Is Essex,? a British Jersey Shore 2011-11-06T22:38:37Z

If you look over the rest of McCarthy's oeuvre, Westerns are nowhere to be seen, are in fact completely absent during his early and later career. Cormac McCarthy – the greatest Western writer ever – didn't actually write Westerns 2023-06-15T04:00:00Z

Harris was poking fun at a perceived lack of diversity surrounding this year’s Oscars, where minority nominees were absent from all four acting categories. Oscars 2015: Academy tries to highlight diversity onstage 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z

Gulf or Levantine influences were almost entirely absent from the Arab consciousness. Egypt has returned from the cultural backwaters 2011-02-24T16:19:39Z

This demands a wider discussion, curiously absent here, of the psychological impact of captivity. The Pursuit of the Nazi Mind: Hitler, Hess and the Analysts by Daniel Pick - review 2012-08-01T07:00:03Z

In the New York Times, critic Holland Cotter wrote: "Labels with information are absent. ... Viewers need help, and deserve the choice to avail themselves of it." Picasso Museum in Paris reopens after renovations, internal tumult 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z

But watching those shows again, I even see a timelessness in the blank deadpan of Carson that is absent in the knowing irony of Letterman. As a Teenager, I Hated Johnny Carson. Then Came the Pandemic. 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z

His swirling masterpieces have a flamboyance and freedom that is largely absent in the mannered nature of modern art. Art in 2015: A look ahead 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

"It hardly bears recounting that President Obama built his political persona around a search for his absent dad," YoungSmith said. Joe Biden, a father’s love and the legacy of "daddy issues" among presidents 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

Although the central friendship of the film rings true, there is a lack of history in the relationship, and a sense of time and place is absent. Lightweight 'Life Partners' depicts ups and downs of BFFs 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

While women are absent from entertainer of the year, all five nominees for the single of the year are performed by women, a first for the ACM Awards. Maren Morris, Chris Stapleton lead ACM Awards nominations 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z

Transgender men were absent from any media, and several reviews of the film incorrectly described Teena as a woman posing as a man, not living his true identity. ‘Boys Don’t Cry’ 20 Years Later: For Trans Men, a Divisive Legacy 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

In “Utøya,” we encounter a dying girl who quietly begs for her absent mother, and the primal immediacy of the scene eviscerates us. The Power of the One-Take Film 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

Filmmakers released a trailer back in March — with Firth’s voice absent. Colin Firth Is Paddington Bear No More 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Angell recognized that campus life, even absent tragedy, often unfolds as a period of heightened intensity and insight—a time when young people are allowed to reveal themselves in surprising and intriguing ways. Sunday Reading: School Drama 2019-05-26T04:00:00Z

Whether he agrees with this himself is oddly absent from your letter. Carolyn Hax: The ex who won’t go away: Husband’s family can’t let go of his previous wife 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z

But the word "individualism" names, I believe, a social absence as well as a personal impulse: ritual is absent. All together now: Montaigne and the art of co-operation 2012-02-10T22:55:14Z

She never married his absent father and, with no day care options, would often drop White at the Chicago Public Library while she worked. The Man Who Taught a Generation of Black Artists Gets His Own Retrospective 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z

And in countries where Russia is seen as a direct threat, including Poland, Russian singers and composers are conspicuously absent from opera and concert playbills. A Year Into War, Russian Artists Still Must Navigate a Tricky Path 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z

There's been sadness already, mainly in the form of absent fathers. Jamie's Comfort Food review – what does a dinner party have to do with comfort? 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

According to a number of people close to the house, Mr. Decarnin, under stress for some time, was absent from Balmain in the weeks before the show, perhaps since the first of the year. On the Runway: Decarnin Leaves Balmain 2011-04-06T12:13:14Z

That is an intense and specific bond, but the meaning and power of being a twin is absent from the film. Wanda, the MCU's Instagram boymom of “Doctor Strange” 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

And the still disruptive import of his Beatitudes and parables feels weirdly absent from these short chapters that quickly push him off stage. Mary Rakow’s ‘This is Why I Came’ asks us to reimagine biblical tales 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z

Whereas my mother's family were warm and embracing, my father's were strict and absent. Keith Allen 2013-03-08T13:00:01Z

Attendees will also get a chance to hear from Dr. Anthony Fauci, who has been largely absent from national television since May. Virtual New Yorker Festival Will Host Chris Rock and Elizabeth Warren 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Sylvia yearns for her absent son, Devon — J J’s childhood friend — and tries to fill his place by forging unexpected connections. A ‘Gatsby’ Reboot Traces a Black Family’s Fortunes 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z

I might be bipolar because my absent father is. I’m cold and angry at my mother – how can I stop? | Mariella Frostrup 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z

What’s conspicuously, and insidiously, absent from the film is any acknowledgment of the effects of the beliefs and policies that he promotes. Another Documentary Inadvertently Honors Steve Bannon 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

The book was written largely from the points of view of each of the people involved with the case, with Ms. Godfrey mostly absent from the narrative, an affecting technique that was also cultural. Rebecca Godfrey, Who Found Humanity in Teenage Violence, Dies at 54 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z

Noticeably absent are manga and anything from Marvel or DC's library. Comics: Gravett crime anthology comes close to "Best" 2010-10-12T20:42:00Z

With expanded opportunities, she extended her range to full-length 19th-Russian classics, including “The Sleeping Beauty” and “The Nutcracker,” then absent from the Paris Opera repertoire. Yvette Chauviré, Ballerina and Symbol of French Culture, Dies at 99 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

While it would be “presumptuous” to agree, “If memory serves, when I started out all color was absent from fashion,” he added. If These Dresses Could Talk 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

Both directors were married to actresses; each movie in its way acknowledged the filmmaker’s absent wife, expressing a sort of confessional misogyny. ‘La Chienne’ and ‘A Married Woman’: The Better Half, in Dark Strokes 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Now it's the humans who are the bad guys; the aliens, though absent tonight, are now possibly not as evil as suspected. Falling Skies: episode seven 2011-08-16T21:01:01Z

Ships may not be the focus of this imagery, but they aren’t absent from it. Review | NGA’s exhibit of Dutch marine art skates over issues of slavery and colonialism 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Then she was simply absent, reduced to a kind of shimmering nostalgic image, an essentially static, mythical being: always ‘improving,’ yet always staying the same and never actually getting anywhere.” Books of The Times: Twin Alone, Disconnected but Not Lost 2011-01-09T22:53:24Z

"Hard Edged: Geometrical Abstraction and Beyond" is more a sketch than a finished show, absent a catalog and a fully developed thesis. 'Hard Edged' art at California African American Museum widens perception of black artists' work 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z

Yet absent from all of this merriment is Islam. The Infidel is not Islam's Life of Brian 2010-04-12T09:50:00Z

There was the coronavirus, of course, but the pandemic is absent from the new season. In Its Final Season, ‘Happy Valley’ Grapples With Healing 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

Oddly, the most basic necessity, toilet paper, was absent when we checked in, requiring a request to the front desk. Check In: Hotel Review: The J House Greenwich in Riverside, Conn. 2013-05-28T21:30:01Z

When an item is absent, its place is marked on the wall or floor. Critic’s Notebook: Prada Foundation Remounts a 1969 Exhibition 2013-08-13T21:52:42Z

But the influence of German expressionism is absent, there's no hard-boiled narration, no angst-ridden hero, no distorted camera angles, no nightmares, no ominous shadows, no flashbacks. The Big Sleep ? review 2011-01-02T00:05:12Z

Some names familiar to an English-speaking audience are absent from this volume. Flash mob 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z

Some restaurants that topped critics’ lists in 2017 are noticeably absent, omitted by the foundation for either proven or perceived violations of the new code. James Beard Awards Apply a New Yardstick: Good Behavior 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

Whatever natural gentlemanly aura Bettany typically capitalizes upon is absent in Ian, who he makes a contemptible, unfeeling brute as soon as his amorous wiles achieve their purpose. Amazon's gloomy "A Very British Scandal" divorce tale starring Claire Foy and Paul Bettany 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z

The Modern also deserves our thanks for continuing to aerate its permanent collection with artists previously absent from its overly compact version of art history. In the New York Art Scene, Spectacle and Substance Both Wow 2011-12-17T05:26:18Z

The 21st century may be spinning off its axis, but Ray's refined aura is absent starry-eyed idealization. Charles Ray's sculptures cast a forceful modern eye on antiquity 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Poor familial relationships, absent or depressed parents, and significant childhood trauma are all associated with early puberty. 3 Reasons Your Daughter’s Puberty Won’t Be Like Yours 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Terrace dropped in and out like a benevolent but largely absent uncle, and seen in old film footage with his combover and his BMW sports coupe, he looks the part. Pick of the week: The chimp they tried to turn human 2011-07-08T01:01:00Z

But even absent this rule, helping an injured friend is not the best moment for cashing in. He Wants a Loan. Can I Demand That He Get Vaccinated First? 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

Fashion photography is conspicuously absent, which is rare — and refreshing — for a designer’s collection. Art Review: Designer?s Art Collection Is a Passionate Triple Mix 2011-02-23T00:30:57Z

But the latter show’s lead performer and creator, Roseanne Barr, was noticeably absent from the roster of this year’s contenders for best comedy actresses. Returning hits 'Will & Grace,' 'Roseanne' shut out of best comedy... 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

The movie, a mild rip-off of “The Santa Clause” and its ilk, imagines a world of Easter-time joy from which even the slightest trace of Christianity is absent. | 'Hop': Bunny Doesn?t Want to Work, Just Wants to Bang the Drum All Day 2011-03-31T22:41:55Z

This partially digested matter is edible to humans and rich in carbohydrates, which are pretty much absent from animal tissues. The original "Paleo diet" and archaeologists’ mistaken assumptions about gender roles of ancestors 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

The subject matter that often looms large in memoirs of childhood – intense friendships and betrayals, yearning for acceptance, hankering for special possessions, self-consciousness about appearance and dress – is conspicuously absent here. Nowhere Ending Sky by Marlen Haushofer – review 2013-07-13T07:30:01Z

Tester’s father is absent; when he was around, the family says, he was an addict and was physically abusive. “Jawline,” Reviewed: A Chilling Look at the Making of a Teen Influencer 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

The smoothness with which Ibsen embodied theme through character and incident in his greatest plays is absent here. Theater Review: ‘An Enemy of the People’ at Samuel J. Friedman Theater 2012-09-28T02:00:19Z

"I tried to be as absent as possible," he says. TV On The Radio keep heart despite nine types of trauma 2011-04-11T09:00:00Z

Though his partners weren’t there, they weren’t entirely absent, either. My Boyfriend Has Two Girlfriends. Should I Be His Third? 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z

This hallmark aspect of true memory loss is frequently absent from fictional amnesiacs, including Jason Bourne. “I don’t care who I am or what I did”: What the Bourne films get right and wrong about amnesia 2016-08-07T04:00:00Z

Conspicuously absent from the mix were large-budget studio films, which did not qualify for funding under the previous program, which restricted credits to movies with budgets below $75 million. Location filming jumped 10% in L.A. last year 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

Which books would feel palpably absent when you came home at night, even if you didn’t so much as glance at them? Michael Cunningham Thinks Most People Misunderstand ‘Lolita’ 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

Fithian noted that older audiences, largely absent from theaters over the last two years because of coronavirus concerns, returned en masse over the weekend, “ending the debate about a full recovery.” ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Lands Triumphantly on Opening Weekend 2022-05-29T04:00:00Z

At a time when guitar bands are notably absent from the charts, Mona are very much rock'n'roll's great white hopes – America's answer to bands such as Brother and the Vaccines, recently covered in these pages. 'I had an early lesson in manipulation' 2010-12-23T22:33:00Z

But Winehouse sang it with a sleazy urgency, a wilfully suggestive crackle absent from the original and at odds with the upbeat, northern soul backing. A losing game 2011-07-24T18:15:01Z

Still, it’s disappointing that an American designer was absent from this historic moment. At the final Obama state dinner, Versace’s glamour shimmers 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z

Irony was notably absent from Palin’s blogpost, which then goes on to say that the media coverage is a result of public hatred of conservative women. From Honey Boo Boo to Bristol Palin: when reality TV gets a little too real 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

After news that an 11-year-old girl was burned with grease during filming, the New Mexico attorney general investigated possible labor-law violations but dropped the matter absent an official request for investigation by a state agency. Reality TV kids perform without a safety net 2010-06-28T03:57:00Z

The Japanese, who were largely absent at the Morino Lodge, have gathered in minor force on the mountain, sticking mainly to the center of the marked runs. The slopes, the powder and the prices make Japan a worthy ski trip 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Within two years of their daughter’s birth, Elder’s husband, she says, had become increasingly absent, then left, before disappearing altogether in 2008. ‘It's the breaking of a taboo’: the parents who regret having children 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z

Strangely absent were the ocean’s top predator: Our 15 divers only collectively spotted a handful of blacktip and whitetip reef sharks, along with a couple of leopard sharks, in our week of diving. Scuba Diving in Thailand: A Balancing Act 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

In the one sold in the rest of the world, many of the passages Ms. Elkaïm-Sartre deemed objectionable are absent altogether. Hazel Rowley, Biographer With Taste for the Singular, Dies at 59 2011-03-15T05:16:39Z

In fact, this is the first time in Grammy history that the album of the year pool is absent of white men. Perspective | Jay-Z leads this year’s Grammy nominations. Hip-hop hooray? 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z

The garish faces and bleached-out landscapes of the film are largely absent; no danger here that the whole thing is a hallucination. ‘12 Monkeys’ and James Cole Return, on Syfy 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

At least some fans of the series will be disappointed, therefore, to learn that Harry is absent from the newest, much tamer Nesbo, “The Kingdom.” Jo Nesbo’s New Book Stars an Antisocial Loner. It’s Not Harry Hole. 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z

Harrison’s speaking voice and accent, his gestures, laughter, and other telling body language are absent. Review | Getting to know George Harrison through his own words 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z

She and Stevenson shared in both awards with their absent collaborators Grace Ellis and Brooke A. Allen. 'Lumberjanes' leads a youth movement at Eisner Awards, and 'Saga' wins big again 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z

"Even though in theory I was the director, I was absenting myself more and more, letting myself get carried along by events," he says. Emmanuel Carr?re: Betraying confidences 2010-10-19T13:19:00Z

She brings interludes back to the album format — something absent for a while — to tell stories that push you to think. AP's top albums of 2016: Beyonce, Rihanna, Solange, Bruno 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

Films from the 1960s and 1970s were notably absent from the list. 'It's a Wonderful Life' is top Christmas film with critics 2012-12-20T23:07:01Z

All the things that are lovable about it — the cheerful pop, the whoosh of air, the instant results — are absent. A Pull-Apart Bread Worth Sharing (Even if You Don’t Want to) 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

The political leader of the free world was absent from the Kennedy Center Honors on Sunday night, but that didn’t stop presenters and performers from making a slew of political statements. At the Kennedy Center Honors, plenty of politics make up for Trump’s playing hooky 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

Despite the prospect that Manson will be absent, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said it would vigorously oppose Manson's release. Charles Manson's psychological records part of parole review 2012-04-11T11:09:00Z

The good guys harbor no illusions about fairness and operate under the acceptance that whatever all-power entity may be watching over us is, in his better moods, absent. How "Supernatural" reflects the American spirit and the monstrous darkness lurking underneath 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z

There is an intensity of attention in a crowd, fully engaged and sharing a space, that is absent in looking at your screen. I Miss Being Part of an Audience 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z

Less convincing is Saville’s scattered buildup to a resolution as Sam works through past dramas related to his absent father and his mother’s death. ‘Juniper’ Review: Bad Grandma 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

An absent crime boss named Wilson, a sort of malevolent Godot, is the presumed sender of such bizarre demands. | 'The Dumb Waiter' : ?The Dumb Waiter? at the Duo Theater - Review 2011-10-30T22:54:13Z

The season opener will be "Tales of Hoffmann," absent from the Lyric repertory since 1982. Lyric Opera plays it safe upcoming season 2011-02-01T19:28:52Z

Variety reported in December 2017 that Singer had been absent from the “Bohemian Rhapsody” set on “numerous occasions throughout filming.” Before the "Bohemian Rhapsody" mess, Bryan Singer reportedly went AWOL from "X-Men" movie sets 2019-06-10T04:00:00Z

With five string principals absent, the string playing demonstrated the Seattle Symphony’s strength in depth. Carlos Kalmar leads SSO in fresh take on Beethoven 2013-12-29T19:43:19Z

Notably but unavoidably absent, for example, is a 1992 piece that put Ms. Leonard on the international map. Zoe Leonard’s Messages Strike Hard — and Cast a Spell 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

“You have to listen for diminished sounds, or absent sounds. It’s hard.” This Artist Got His Start as an I.C.U. Nurse 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

One country known for its boxing program was absent: Cuba. Fighting Cuba’s Boxing Ban 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z

Her husband is a dependable and condescending comfort almost entirely absent from her everyday life. Mrs Bridge by Evan S Connell – rereading 2012-06-08T21:55:17Z

But this version of that sound had long been absent. Music Review: Reunited, Loop Performs at Le Poisson Rouge 2014-04-18T21:54:41Z

The characters in her new songs, from start to finish, are women; men, except for someone’s mean father, are absent, simply irrelevant to her current intentions. Review: Laura Marling’s ‘Semper Femina’ Seeks the Cryptic in the Plainspoken 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

Her affectionate but absent mother brought home men who preyed upon her children. ‘Heart Berries’ Shatters a Pattern of Silence 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

But in adolescence this third child appreciates that actually mother's admiration is not for people like himself, but for those like father, who is always absent, taking risks. Semantic Polarities and Psychopathologies in the Family – review 2013-06-19T10:20:14Z

But one group still absent from this galaxy far, far away is the LGBT+ crowd. A gay “Star Wars” hero could save lives in this galaxy: Why the lip bite that launched a thousand ‘ships matters 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

There are also eight human dancers, but the 90-minute production perks up when the robots arrive, and it sags whenever they’re absent. Review: In ‘ROBOT,’ Machines Perform With Humans at BAM 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

When writing, however, all of this sensory information is absent. The hazards of texting at work 2016-01-24T05:00:00Z

In a moment when popular culture confuses fame and excellence, works like these also imply an inability to appreciate female merit absent of sex and glamour. Catherine Was Great. But Was She a Girl Boss? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

Joan Salge Blake, a clinical associate professor of nutrition at Boston University, was skeptical, because it’s carbohydrates, absent from the drink, that are brain food. The Cult of the Bulletproof Coffee Diet 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

There’s always the specter of the absent parent who looms very large in the kid’s imagination. Motherlode: Not About Charlie Sheen 2011-03-03T21:08:49Z

Even though some of them wore lace, they were absent fragility. Power Dressing Gets a New Look 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z

This strikes me as the kind of wistful generalization that’s otherwise absent from this smart and empathetic book. ‘Seek and Hide’ Grapples With the Complexity of the Right to Privacy 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z

There is always something missing – either absent works or the artist's spirit, which can easily be destroyed by bad curatorship. Joan Mir?: A fine line 2011-04-11T20:30:01Z

Such bold thrills are notably absent from 's quiver – just how are their more muted charms going to command the attention of a damp 60,000-strong stadium audience? Coldplay – review 2012-06-03T17:00:01Z

And while Cassio and Emilia appear in cameos, Iago, arguably Shakespeare’s most compelling villain, is noticeably absent. | 'Desdemona': ?Desdemona? at Lincoln Center White Light Festival - Review 2011-11-03T22:47:19Z

And an art-and-life lesson in how to be absent, and not. Bruce Nauman Reappears: Pay Attention 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Vanity Fair continued to perpetuate this rep with its 2016 cover story boasting about having interviewed “all the titans of late night,” including a cover portrait from which Bee is noticeably absent. No more Jimmys on late night: Why we need more women comedians hosting now 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

The whole episode is classic inspirational mush; even later, when she transforms into a sunny flight attendant and Callahan’s layover lover, she still seems as incorporeal as his vision of his absent mother. Review: Joaquin Phoenix Treks the Long Road to Sobriety in ‘Don’t Worry’ 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

Annie Rosen, a mezzo, gave a game portrayal of Anna, the main singer, but she sang so prettily that the bite of this sardonic, satirical piece was absent. Review | Opera trains the best young singers. At Wolf Trap Barns, a recent performance revealed a young artist. 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

She was largely absent from the public eye in the ’90s, making money by appearing at corporate parties, where she would, say, pop out of a cake for a high fee. The Power of Grace Jones 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Still, politics are not absent, above all in this show’s most talked-about work: “Again,” a video installation by the German artist Mario Pfeifer that casts a bitter eye on the country’s ongoing refugee crisis. At the Berlin Biennale, the Art of Saying ‘No’ 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z

For the first time most of the men read their poems about absent, or feared, or longed-for fathers. Margie Orford: 'Working with these men helped me understand why South Africa is so violent' 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z

The recessionary mood that pervades “Hung” is absent here; “Call Me Fitz” doesn’t tax its thinking mechanisms, a fact for which we are not ungrateful. | 'Call Me Fitz': King of Front-Wheel Drive and Back-Seat Romps 2011-04-20T21:15:40Z

What we said: A very satisfying archery contest of zingers … a film of surfaces and cynicism, in which the romanticism of the more famous stories is almost entirely absent. The best films of 2016 so far 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z

He appeared to the onlooker to be in some important way absent – there and not there, as if his soul had left his body. Is this the end for books? 2011-08-14T20:30:01Z

But as Anne Harrington reminds us, it wasn’t all that long ago when psychiatrists were pilloried as a bunch of woolly Freudians in thrall to specious ideas about absent fathers and smothering mothers. Mental Illness Is All in Your Brain — or Is It? 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z

But Poland’s president, prime minister and culture minister — who might normally be expected to attend such a high-profile event — were absent from the opening. Court Clears Takeover of Poland’s New World War II Museum 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

Even swords and knives and the splattering of blood are absent, so the murders are merely suggested. | 'Macbeth': Ambition Doth Curse All Makes of Men 2011-04-06T21:38:26Z

She is all but absent from one chapter about the history of blues and minstrel singing, but we learn more than we could ever want to know about vaudeville stars Eva Tanguay and Sophie Tucker. ‘Billie Holiday: The Musician and the Myth’ by John Szwed 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

Conspicuously absent from their influences, for the most part, is Asia. Sydney’s New Guard: Five Restaurants Leading the Way 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z

An implicit criticism of German Expressionism may also explain why sculpture is absent from this exhibition. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

After all the plastic melodramatics on EastEnders, this was a series that revelled in mundane minor victories over an absent landlord state: dole scams, housing benefit fraud, disability swindles. Rewind TV: Shameless; Episodes; Kidnap and Ransom; Human Planet ? review 2011-01-16T00:05:49Z

Yet the brutality that underlies both family and place is never really absent. Review: ‘The Liars’ Club,’ by Mary Karr 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z

Continuing the cycle, Danny is an awful father, absent and unfaithful. Space dad is the ultimate absentee father in "For All Mankind" and beyond 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z

Happily, the wretched tyranny of chrome and pine that must define, it seems, all modern "heritage" centres is absent here. Scottish town that changed the world fights for its rights 2013-03-31T00:06:09Z

Featuring interviews with friends, relatives and neighbours, it goes back through his childhood to explore his attitudes to an absent father, stepfather and a mother from whom he later became estranged. Tonight's TV highlights: Coast; Raoul Moat; Inside The Mind Of A Killer 2010-08-17T23:05:00Z

Most of the big names, the household ones that draw foreign editors and retailers to the city, were absent. Who Needs Big Brands When You Have Ella Emhoff, Bowen Yang and an Actual Beating Heart? 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z

This year the company has a strictly 12-and-older policy, so a few other characters normally played by 8- and 9-year-olds will be absent. Perspective | Don’t share the lipstick! How ballet companies are planning covid-free ‘Nutcrackers.’ 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z

With Cooper absent, Lady Gaga took both parts of “Shallow” herself. Grammys 2019: Cardi B, Lady Gaga and Kacey Musgraves Make It a Year for Women 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z

Surely so basic a staple of the recorded repertory couldn’t be absent from Spotify’s bounty. Spotify?s Classical-Streaming Service Takes Baby Steps 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z

When an actress gives herself as wholly as Ms. Steen does here, a filmmaker should return the favor with a comparable level of craft and commitment, which is largely absent from this movie. | 'Applause': Even on the Wagon, Not Ready for a Close-Up 2011-01-20T23:00:19Z

One of the more interesting things about the first episode is what is absent. Review: ‘Wicked City’: Murder and Mayhem, 1980s Style 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z

Despite an absent father and a mother in rehab, Rose is poised, mature and smart enough to have won a full scholarship to Barnard. The Greatest: Susan Sarandon as Another Mad, Sad Mom 2010-04-02T09:20:00Z

But absent any real dramatic conflict, it’s all as soggy as a waterlogged bilge. Movie Review: ‘Backwards,’ With Sarah Megan Thomas, Collegiate Rower 2012-09-20T23:01:10Z

That blasé attitude infected other performers, most notably Sting, who was emotionally absent during his stiff, pompous renditions of “In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning” and “Witchcraft.” Review: Stars Pay Tribute to Frank Sinatra 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

The Georgetown mainstay was also absent from Washingtonian’s list of the city’s 100 “very best” restaurants. Style over sustenance: How Cafe Milano survived to the ripe old age of 25 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z

Ms. Berman appears in the small group of people and animals in the illustration for “Here today,” but is absent from the nearly identical group of its companion, “gone tomorrow.” Maira Kalman’s Irreverent Pictures for the Grammar Bible 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z

His father was often absent during World War II to fight in the Greek resistance as the German Army advanced. In Athens, the Last Man Painting 2014-02-26T22:55:35Z

While viewers vote for contenders on the show, which begins on Sunday, Dorries is set to be absent for votes in the Commons, as well as George Osborne's autumn statement on 5 December. Nadine Dorries ditches MP duties to take part in I'm a Celebrity … 2012-11-06T10:27:42Z

Yet generals and grand strategy are largely absent in this museum; instead, at intervals, screens show actors reading the diaries of ordinary troops, Allied and German alike, who see the carnage up close. How to Remember a War Without Glory? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

The last time she was absent was to attend a brother's wedding in 1995. Behold: Catherine Russell the off-Broadway force 2013-03-07T14:24:10Z

Which is to say that Kermit and Miss Piggy’s moment of conscious uncoupling represents the kind of cynicism that has been, until now, entirely absent from the Muppet project. Remember When the Muppets Were Subversive? 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z

The organizing body of the Roman Jewish community helped fund its creation, but several of that group’s officials and other prominent members of the community were conspicuously absent at the premiere. Whispers of an Italian-Jewish Past Fill a Composer’s Music 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

Religion is absent from many high school curricula and university classrooms, and many of us barely know the religious history of our own country much less the role of religion worldwide. Religion’s media persecution complex 2013-04-23T22:01:00Z

This communication after the fact is often excruciating, but I think — absent abuse — it’s important to healing. Give up on him too soon? Maybe not. But cutting him off totally is pretty rough. 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

Yet somehow, the cloud of stage-parent oppression seems absent, which isn’t to say that this Partridge Family for the Instagram age wasn’t partially by design. Billie Eilish Is Not Your Typical 17-Year-Old Pop Star. Get Used to Her. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

Early on, he describes his mother’s compassion and volatility, and later mentions her drug use, but she remains absent for large swaths of narrative. Books of The Times: Done With Drugs, But the Legacy Is Unfinished 2011-01-13T22:30:07Z

Björk is absent, preparing for tonight's live show, her first in the UK for over three years, which will open the Manchester international festival. Live from planet Bj?rk 2011-07-04T19:00:00Z

Gregory, who grew up poor in St. Louis, with a mostly absent father, first drew attention as a track star in high school. Review: In ‘Turn Me Loose,’ Raw Jokes That Still Sear and Bite 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z

There’s not much one can say to defend that comment, which even absent the latter-day controversy around “Last Tango” was juvenile at best. David Edelstein, the “butter scene” in “Last Tango” and the darkness of the internet 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

“Imagine a world in which the stories of King Tut, Cleopatra, Ramesses and others were absent from the collective consciousness,” he wrote. Sorting Through the Rubble of Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo 2014-01-31T20:47:03Z

The upright was another twist, absent in previous visits, including this summer's Sasquatch! and last fall's Neumos gig. Dirty Projectors adopt 14th-century musical style in eclectic Seattle set 2010-10-01T19:32:00Z

The pool that so dominated the novel’s first half is nearly absent from the second. Julie Otsuka Dives Into the Underground World of the Community Pool 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

When she fakes it, he is the wounded party: her absent climax becomes his loss. What I learned talking to 120 women about their sex lives and desires 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

At the same time, I gain much security from knowing that I’m not so indispensable that I can’t be absent for a second. ‘Mum’s day off, is it?’: what adopting as a same-sex couple taught us 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z

In Fung’s quietly moving “Ghost Forest,” the author takes a choral approach to her unnamed narrator’s family history, after her largely absent father’s protracted illness and death. Debut Novels by Pik-Shuen Fung, Rahul Raina and Alex McElroy 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov will also be absent as he is under house arrest in Russia on charges his supporters say are politically motivated. MeToo will not sway Cannes film contest, says jury head Blanchett 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z

And yet last year’s slate of nominees similarly lacked diversity in the four major acting categories, and people of color were virtually absent from all the other categories as well. #WhiteHouseSoWhite: “I Am Not Your Negro” illuminates America’s ongoing race problem 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z

Why is it, then, that we rightly recognize in James a maturity absent from so much of American culture not just today but a hundred years ago? Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

“If nostalgia is a sixth and often fogging sense,” our critic Alexandra Jacobs writes, “it is absent in a book that feels manifestly present, clear and alive even while describing the past.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

In the age they were made, philosophers debated endlessly about the relative merits of painting vs. poetry to recall the presence of an absent thing, especially a loved one. Analysis | At the Met, beautiful paintings that won’t love you back 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

In the "half-dreams" of this strange condition the speaker experiences some psychic closeness to his absent lover. John Mullan's 10 of the best 2012-02-10T22:55:07Z

That is to say, the zombie arrived in the States mostly absent of the cultural resonance and spiritual gravitas it had, and has, for Haitians in Haiti. How did the zombie become so white? 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z

After attending the Golden Globe Awards, he was absent during the Screen Actors Guild awards last Sunday; there’s no word if he’ll take time from his schedule to attend the Oscars on Feb 27. Benjamin Millepied Leaps Into the Spotlight 2011-02-02T23:36:06Z

These political concerns seem absent from Capra's early films, which appeal in part because of their indifference to social questions. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z

Try to reserve a sip, or three, to savor after the Zoom chats with absent friends and family, after the pies and the football and the cleanup. This Thanksgiving, the right wine to pair with the meal is the one that means the most to you 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

The wonderful man is absent from “Saul Steinberg.” Books of The Times: ‘Saul Steinberg,’ a Biography by Deirdre Bair 2012-12-13T23:12:59Z

Notably absent from the Spirit Awards lineup was Academy Award winner George Clooney, considered a strong prospect for a best-actor nomination at the Oscars for "The Descendants." 'Artist,' 'Take Shelter' lead Spirit Awards noms 2011-11-29T18:29:10Z

One thing conspicuously absent is a sense of how Ms. Roiphe signaled her availability so successfully. Books of The Times: A Young Muse in the Service of Male Writers 2011-03-20T21:14:14Z

That absent scene notwithstanding, "Fifty Shades" promises to have its share of "strong sexual content" and "unusual behavior" according to the MPAA, which has given the movie an R rating. 'Fifty Shades of Grey': Five things to expect from the erotic drama 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z

Such a conciliatory spirit is absent from "Omar", however - as elusive as actual Palestinian statehood in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which world powers hope will emerge from peace talks with Israel. Palestine's tragic Oscar hopeful tests identity, ideas 2014-01-28T13:07:17Z

Except it does, through omission: absent from his paintings are portrayals of the daily suffering and struggle for the majority of the population. Light Falling on Bamboo – review 2012-09-28T21:55:01Z

Two cousins come to terms with their absent parents. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z

He casts Cotillard, one of the foxiest actresses alive, as a smoldering temptress who embodies all the female, erotic energy absent from this universe, and then literally locks her in the basement. "Inception": A clunky, overblown disappointment 2010-07-15T01:01:00Z

There’s a word glaringly absent from public mood and discourse. Alvin Ailey dancers give Segerstrom audience humanity, heart and 'Revelations' 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z

Even the explosive red hair is absent, replaced with a soft mop of silvery-tangerine curls. Mick Hucknall: 'I feel a bit like the antichrist' 2010-12-02T21:30:00Z

Nicholas keeps a sketchbook, in which he draws things that are completely absent in his own environment: Ferris wheels, Christmas presents, and so on. Review: ‘Evolution’ Goes to a Magical Place You Wouldn’t Want to Live In 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

But more importantly, the heartache JR feels for Sidney is not unlike — but also nothing like — the pain and anger he has towards his absent father. In George Clooney's coming-of-age flick "The Tender Bar," Ben Affleck provides the gooey center 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

He’s 53, from a nice suburb of Chicago; Catholic mother, absent alcoholic father. Better Call Saul’s Bob Odenkirk: ‘Trump’s ego is so destructive, it’s hilarious. Until he gets elected’ 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z

There’s an unabashed sweetness and boldness here that is painfully absent in the other contenders, most of which are telling stories that we’ve seen plenty of times before. Why Jojo Rabbit should win the best picture Oscar 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

On Monday she was more robust if slightly absent compared with her colleagues: the magnificent dancers, worthy of their own hourlong performance, and her band, outfitted in shimmering tops and matching white headpieces. Music Review: Santigold at Music Hall of Williamsburg - Review 2012-01-18T15:29:25Z

If she absent when parliament is sitting, she should be sacked. MP Dorries suspended over TV show 2012-11-06T21:34:16Z

A little girl runs outside her home in Monrovia, Liberia, during a rainstorm, thinking she hears her absent mother’s voice, “full of laughter and long ago.” Wayétu Moore Escapes a Civil War in Liberia. In America, She Encounters a New Kind of Danger. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Of the core repertory, the 25 or 30 titles at the center of the Metropolitan Opera’s history, none has been absent from its stage longer than Wagner’s “Lohengrin.” 10 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2023 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

It's a self-referential turn, deeply felt, empathetic and completely absent of vanity. Santa Barbara Film Festival to honor Michael Keaton 2014-10-21T04:00:00Z

A small figure named Rumpelstiltskin arrives and aids her in exchange for a necklace, a ring and — absent other currency — the promise of her firstborn. How a Smithsonian researcher reinterpreted Rumpelstiltskin for the #MeToo era 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

His performance exudes qualities that have been absent from him on screen for some time: fallibility, humility, warmth. Sylvester Stallone: the wacky people's champ who battled his own ego 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

He was absent from the air for long, unexplained stretches; station managers considered firing him several times. Jim & Doreen: NBC4’s top-rated anchors are still leading the pack after 25 years

The dueling patriarchs – the maple syrup baron Cliff Blossom and the absent yet menacing Hiram Lodge – fit right into the mold of tyrants past. New old money: why hating the super rich remains small screen gold 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

In fact, absent other clues, like profession, a virtual space makes clothes even more important. What to Wear in the Metaverse 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z

Their fate is absent from Bulgaria’s modern history: their mouths, she writes, “are full of earth”. Mapping history 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z

Despite keeping their friendship a secret from their classmates, the girls provide one another with support as they navigate abusive relationships, absent parents and compulsions to steal. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Trinkets’ and ‘The Haves and the Have Nots’ 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Often he'll start with nothing more than a hangover, a fever and a bad night spent being tormented by the spectre of his absent lover. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

Part of the problem is that one of the most iconic characters of the series — Toshio, the creepy little boy who howls like a house cat — is absent here. "The Grudge" sequel is cursed by mediocrity 2020-01-03T05:00:00Z

The new movie will see the return of the director Justin Lin, who has helmed several “Fast & Furious” movies but has been absent from the series since 2013. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Oslo’ and Specials Honoring George Floyd 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z

The underlying universality of its sentiments and sounds ultimately work in the album’s favor, effectively smuggling a Black queer perspective into places where it was once absent or even actively resisted. Lil Nas X Reveals Himself on ‘Montero’ 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z

Ms. Pessl seems to take it as a given that this book, like its absent genius, warrants fascination. Books Of the Times: ‘Night Film’ Is Marisha Pessl’s New Novel 2013-08-14T20:32:22Z

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