He has a long history of sudden and prolonged absences from public view.

Not so much pain as a sudden absence of sensation, one might say.

I entered it, staggering in the sudden absence of wind.

Lyons might take his sudden absence as one more rejection in a long series.

He moved away from her for a moment, and the sudden absence of his body heat left her feeling cold.

While eating, she had tried to come up with an excuse to explain her sudden absence and being in Canada.

Again, however, I feared that a sudden absence of light might wake her.

He had felt the sudden and absolute absence of her presence in his mind.

In that sudden absence of time, Linden made her choice.

Their political reflexes didn't know how to deal with the sudden absence of media.