nonpresence

And it's not really just that he can't act, but instead that to me he's pretty much a "nonpresence," if that's even anything resembling an actual word.

Archive 2009-05-01 Reel Fanatic 2009

Mr. Monti rebuffed the skepticism, saying "the nonpresence of political personalities will make it easier" to act decisively in rolling out economic measures.

Italy Premier Appoints Emergency Government Stacy Meichtry 2011

Japan has consistently been a nonpresence on the top ten international airport list, which is dominated by Asian gateways: in 2010, Singapore's Changi Airport, South Korea's Incheon International Airport and Hong Kong International Airport were the top three in the world respectively, according to the Skytrax World Airport Awards.

Japan Offers Long-Awaited Alternative to Narita Mariko Sanchanta 2010

Agamben, philosophy, to renew its power of thought, must be made to come into some radical and liberatory alignment with a theory of language whose rule of the negative (the nonpresence marked by sign) is so far overthrown that — as paradoxical as this would be meant to sound if Agamben had actually articulated the parallel between linguistics and philosophy on this score — things conjured in language need not mean what they mean.

Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian 2008

While you're pondering that capital-q question, you can't help but notice that Tarantino is finally using his twitchy nonpresence to his advantage.

Tarantino Is Undead 2008

What characterizes metaphysics for Derrida is the emphasis on "presence" and its correlative negation, "nonpresence".

Archive 2008-07-01 enowning 2008

What characterizes metaphysics for Derrida is the emphasis on "presence" and its correlative negation, "nonpresence".

enowning enowning 2008

There was one other absentee whose nonpresence I had been willing to ignore until some rational excuse for her disappearance arose.

Water Sleeps Cook, Glen 1999

Q Mr. President, what can you tell us about the presence, or nonpresence of missiles at the -- of the Persian Gulf?

President And Pm Of Netherlands Press Conference ITY National Archives 1995

He was talking about the three other women, whose nonpresence had hovered over the trial from the beginning.

The Verdict Dunne, Dominick 1992