Historical feeling in this world of shifting relations is necessarily flexible, but not wholly absent.

Plants have leaves, and crassulean acid metabolism is wholly absent.

This is not to say that Ms. Pirro is wholly absent.

In short, such relationships are from the very outset infected by the very pragmatism and self-interest he assumes to be wholly absent.

Modern astrologers have brought a spiritual aspect to the twelfth house that was wholly absent in the earlier tradition.

They had been strongest where he sat, and wholly absent except in the room with him or just outside the doors of that room.

Of course, such con- ditions did not disgrace every mill, nor were they wholly absent outside the factory system.

The police were wholly absent from the scene.

Overpopulation in urban areas is often characterized by shanty towns, where such services are inadequate or wholly absent.