Within a few months the economy appeared to have stabilised, food shortages became glaringly absent, and shops filled up with goods.

But what's glaringly absent is any children's television producers, the people who have to raise the money, come up with the concepts and actually make the shows.

Glaringly absent is any serious political analysis of why they do what they do.

What is glaringly absent from the new Times Square is the awareness and creativity that these artists represent.

Tolerance, persuasiveness and learning are three things glaringly absent right now from our own assortment of politicians competing for the American kingship.

But the prediction that came up more often than any other had to do with a period that was glaringly absent at the fair: the 19th century.

But what caught his attention was the thing that was glaringly absent: life.

Struck by the awareness that Gareth's presence was glaringly absent, her eyes fluttered open.

The child's voice is glaringly absent in the story and the process.

That combination was glaringly absent during four years of negotiation.